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2006

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Variation And Change In Spanish Future Temporal Expression: Rates, Constraints, And Grammaticalization, Jessica Elana Aaron Nov 2006

Variation And Change In Spanish Future Temporal Expression: Rates, Constraints, And Grammaticalization, Jessica Elana Aaron

Spanish and Portuguese ETDs

This quantitative, diachronic study of variation between the Spanish Synthetic Future cantaré (Sf) and the Periphrastic Future voy a cantar (PF) tackles the development of these two expressions within and outside the realm of future temporal reference in Spanish since Old Spanish through the early 21st century. Working within the framework or grammaticization and variation theory, this study begins with a qualitative and quantitative form-based analysis of each form, based on over 5,500 tokens extracted from a 935.000-word written and oral corpus.

In the case of the SF, the relationship between SF occurrences in future temporal contexts and those in …


Front Matter Nov 2006

Front Matter

Swiss American Historical Society Review

No abstract provided.


End Matter Nov 2006

End Matter

Swiss American Historical Society Review

No abstract provided.


Full Issue Nov 2006

Full Issue

Swiss American Historical Society Review

No abstract provided.


Economic Complementarity And Political Solidarity: Concerning The Sources Of The First Treaty Of 1850 Between Switzerland And The United States, Cédric Humair Nov 2006

Economic Complementarity And Political Solidarity: Concerning The Sources Of The First Treaty Of 1850 Between Switzerland And The United States, Cédric Humair

Swiss American Historical Society Review

The Civil War known as the Sonderbund and the institutionalization of the Federal State, in 1848, do not solely constitute important historical milestones in Swiss domestic politics. These events, which mark the advent of a modern Switzerland, also had repercussions upon Swiss international politics and diplomacy and, in particular, upon relations with the United States of America. Beginning in 1850, the new liberal-radical authorities concluded a General Convention of Friendship, Reciprocal Establishments, Commerce, and for the Surrender of fugitive Criminals with the "sister Republic."' For the first time in their histories, the two countries regulated several spheres of their relations …


Book Review: The Chechens: A Handbook. Caucasus World: Peoples Of The Caucasus, Walter Richmond Jun 2006

Book Review: The Chechens: A Handbook. Caucasus World: Peoples Of The Caucasus, Walter Richmond

Walter Comins Richmond

No abstract provided.


Cultural Commentary: Le Vin In Paris, William C. Levin Jun 2006

Cultural Commentary: Le Vin In Paris, William C. Levin

Bridgewater Review

No abstract provided.


L’Imagination Du Corps Greffé : Filtres Bilingues, Mireille Rosello Jun 2006

L’Imagination Du Corps Greffé : Filtres Bilingues, Mireille Rosello

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

Contemporary narratives featuring organ transplants speak of a painful but also life-saving contact when the “donor” body is African and the receiving body is European. At this point the surgical operation and that of the imagination assume a whole other dimension, as the inequality and interdependence of these two bodies invite the reader to re-imagine the links between the concept of the “body,” on the one hand, and culture and language, on the other. This article looks at the transplanted body as an imagining machine capable of articulating a vision of itself different from the one that words impose upon …


Front Matter Jun 2006

Front Matter

Swiss American Historical Society Review

No abstract provided.


End Matter Jun 2006

End Matter

Swiss American Historical Society Review

No abstract provided.


Full Issue Jun 2006

Full Issue

Swiss American Historical Society Review

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Honorable Ancestors, Margot Ammann Durrer Jun 2006

Honorable Ancestors, Margot Ammann Durrer

Swiss American Historical Society Review

The story of the Ammann family of Schaffhausen sketches a cross section of the history of that town from the middle of the 15th century into the end of the 20th. Likewise, the events of history as they played out in Schaffhausen during those times very much shaped the history of the Ammann family.


Foreword, Heinz B. Bachmann Jun 2006

Foreword, Heinz B. Bachmann

Swiss American Historical Society Review

In the year of the Swiss Roots Program it seems very appropriate indeed to devote an entire issue of the SAHS Review to the family of Dipl. Ing. ETH , Othmar Ammann, one of the most prominent Swiss immigrants of the 20th century. The following article is a homage by a loving daughter to her world famous father and his ancestors going back some 460 years.


Scientific Research In A Foreign Language, Meghan Bellows Apr 2006

Scientific Research In A Foreign Language, Meghan Bellows

Senior Honors Projects

Research is a vital aspect in science and engineering. Not only does it further ideas and technology around the world, it brings people around the world together through collaborations. More often than not, the common language spoken among collaborators is English. This makes it easy for native English speakers. It becomes very difficult, however, when the common language spoken among collaborators is not one’s native tongue. New vocabulary, oftentimes very complex and technical, must be learned. It becomes even more of a challenge to present results and findings in a manner that is clear and concise. A collaboration between the …


End Matter Feb 2006

End Matter

Swiss American Historical Society Review

No abstract provided.


Spiritual Leader Of A Nation, L. B. Kuppenheimer Feb 2006

Spiritual Leader Of A Nation, L. B. Kuppenheimer

Swiss American Historical Society Review

Willi Gautschi, translated by Karl Vonlanthen . General Henri Guisan: Commander-in-Chief of the Swiss Army in World War II. New York: Front Street Press, 2003 . xvi+ 698pp. Photographs, maps, notes and index.

For nations of the world engaged in combat during World War Two, the stakes were national survival and the price was blood and treasure. And, for the five countries that elected to remain neutral, the stakes were no less grave , for at any moment an aggressor could chose to invade with no doubt as to the outcome. Of all the neutral nations , Switzerland was both …


Sahs Annual Report 2005 Feb 2006

Sahs Annual Report 2005

Swiss American Historical Society Review

42nd SAHS Annual Meeting

Arch Street Friends (Quakers) Meeting House Fourth and Arch Streets Philadelphia, Pennsylvania


Front Matter Feb 2006

Front Matter

Swiss American Historical Society Review

No abstract provided.


Full Issue Feb 2006

Full Issue

Swiss American Historical Society Review

No abstract provided.


The Imeschs From The Upper Valais - Glimpses Of A Swiss And North-American Family, Marianne Burkhard Feb 2006

The Imeschs From The Upper Valais - Glimpses Of A Swiss And North-American Family, Marianne Burkhard

Swiss American Historical Society Review

The Valais is the third-largest canton of Switzerland covering 2016 square miles of which only 1107 are productive. It is also a world of its own: it received its name "the valley" from the 100 mile long valley of the Rhone River which has its source above the small town of Gletsch below the highest point of the Furka pass. This main valley is flanked on the north and south side by many of the highest peaks of the Swiss Alps. The northern side toward the Canton of Bern is forbiddingly steep, and the Lotschental and the valley leading to …


Kammerman List Feb 2006

Kammerman List

Swiss American Historical Society Review

Having spent five years compiling our family genealogy, it was only natural for me to want to visit the villages, fields, and farms of Switzerland where my ancestors had lived. In September of 2000 my wife and I took our first vacation in years and went to Switzerland to explore the Kammermann and Hostettler family Heimats of Bowil and Guggisberg .


A Propensity For Genius: That Something Special About Fritz Zwicky (1898 - 1974), John Charles Mannone Feb 2006

A Propensity For Genius: That Something Special About Fritz Zwicky (1898 - 1974), John Charles Mannone

Swiss American Historical Society Review

It is difficult to write just a few words about a man who was so great. It is even more difficult to try to capture the nuances of his character, including his propensity for genius as well as his eccentric behavior edging the abrasive as much as the funny, the scope of his contributions, the size of his heart, and the impact on society that the distinguished physicist, Fritz Zwicky (1898- 1974), has made. So I am not going to try to serve that injustice, rather I will construct a collage, which are cameos of his life and accomplishments. In …


Swiss Roots Feb 2006

Swiss Roots

Swiss American Historical Society Review

How Swiss are you? Find out at www.swissroots.org

What do Renee Zellweger, Bob Lutz, Johann August Sutter, and Louis Chevrolet have in common? They are all American individuals with Swiss roots. Since the early 18th century, thousands of Swiss citizens have emigrated to the U.S. - whether they were motivated by curiosity, hopes for a better future, or because of economic hardship in Switzerland.


The Abrek In Chechen Folklore, Rebecca Gould Jan 2006

The Abrek In Chechen Folklore, Rebecca Gould

Rebecca Gould

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Ignaty Krachkovsky’S Encounters With Arabic Literary Modernity Through Amīn Al-Riḥānī, Rebecca Gould Jan 2006

Ignaty Krachkovsky’S Encounters With Arabic Literary Modernity Through Amīn Al-Riḥānī, Rebecca Gould

Rebecca Gould

No abstract provided.


'The Montage Of Tbilisi Culture' By Zaza Shatirishvili, Film International, Rebecca Gould Jan 2006

'The Montage Of Tbilisi Culture' By Zaza Shatirishvili, Film International, Rebecca Gould

Rebecca Gould

Georgian cultural critic Zaza Shatirishvili discusses Tbilisi's cinematographic culture, concentrating particularly on the works of Otar Ioseliani, Sergei Paradjanov, and Robert Strurua.


Hidden Sentiments, Unfinished Project: Pirandello’S Film La Nuova Colonia, Stefano Giannini Jan 2006

Hidden Sentiments, Unfinished Project: Pirandello’S Film La Nuova Colonia, Stefano Giannini

Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics - All Scholarship

This article investigates the notion of the unfinished work. In Pirandello studies the word unfinished holds particular importance. Luigi Pirandello's last, and one of his major works, I giganti della montagna [The Mountain Giants] was not completed. The many years devoted to its making weaken the assumption that Pirandello was not capable of completing it in favor of his decision not to complete his work. I considered the overlapping of the writing of I giganti della montagna and of the attempts to produce the film La nuova colonia [The New Colony] an important, and insofar unnoticed, key element for understanding …


Front Cover Jan 2006

Front Cover

The Bridge

No abstract provided.


The Global Dane: Writing Soren Kierkegaard's Biography*, Joakim Garff Jan 2006

The Global Dane: Writing Soren Kierkegaard's Biography*, Joakim Garff

The Bridge

When Professor C.K.F. Molbech was asked the year after Kierkegaard's death to sketch a biographical portrait for a planned German translation of Either/Or, he went to his friend, the philosopher Hans Brochner, for advice and suggestions. Brochner, who knew the deceased personally, pondered it and then replied: When one restricts oneself to external events, there is of course very little to say about his life at all: he was born May 5, 1813, he was a student at the University in 1830, took his degree in theology in 1840, he submitted his doctoral thesis in 1841, and he died in …


Karin Michaelis: Famous Danish Novelist And Humanitarian Rebel With A Cause, Merete Von Eyben Jan 2006

Karin Michaelis: Famous Danish Novelist And Humanitarian Rebel With A Cause, Merete Von Eyben

The Bridge

Consider the following question: Which Danish author was not only one of the most famous European authors in the early part of the twentieth century, but also one of the most widely read female ones; had all of her books translated into German and some of them into as many as 30 other languages; wrote the most notorious bestseller of that period; celebrated her 60th birthday at a banquet hosted by Austrian PEN in Vienna where she was awarded both an Austrian and a Czechoslovakian medal and honored by the German language papers as Europe's Conscience; had her books banned …