<p>This study examines the interpretation and production of inalienable possession among heritage speakers and L2 learners of Spanish. Inalienable possession lies at the syntax-semantics interface and has previously been found to be challenging among bilingual populations (Giancaspro & Sánchez, 2019; Montrul & Ionin, 2010, 2012; Pérez-Leroux et al., 2002). In particular, this study explores the extent to which Spanish heritage speakers and L2 learners exhibit knowledge of Spanish inalienable possession with pronominal verbs requiring the use of the clitic <i>se</i>. Results from an Elicited Production Task and a Contextualized Preference Task administered online showed that the L2 learners followed a distinct pattern of response compared to the native speakers in the production and interpretation of inalienable possession. This pattern was characterized by the preference of possessive determiners over definite determiners. Heritage speakers, on the contrary, were not found to differ from the native speakers of Spanish. They behaved similarly to the control group as they followed the continuum that emerged for inalienable possession. That is, both groups were more accepting of definite determiners, while they showed less preference for structures with possessive determiners. The findings are discussed in terms of current debates on the role of factors involved in language acquisition such as maturational issues, learning experience, patterns of language exposure and usage, cross-linguistic influence, and the grammatical structure itself.</p>

Attributive absolute constructions in contemporary French The aim of this master thesis is a detailed analysis of French attributive absolute constructions (att. AC) with emphasis on their semantic characteristics. Att. AC is an example of what is called "secondary predication", i.e. a non-finite predicative structure modifying the primary predication, see a typical example "les yeux fermés", 'the eyes closed', in the sentence "Marie est assise, les yeux fermés.", 'Mary sits with her eyes closed.'. The main function of the att. AC is the modification of the head noun through the relation of inalienable possession (IP), or a part - whole relation, between this noun, which is mostly a human being, and an entity conceptualized in the att. AC. The thesis finds its main source in a monograph about AC written by Suzanne Hanon (1989), which is here completed by a qualitative analysis of syntactic and semantic factors that come into play in the formation of att. AC. Att. AC are approached form the perspective of Cognitive Linguistics and Construction Grammar as conceptualizations of the IP (or part - whole) paradigm and it is proposed their description as a prototype-based category with some instances more typical (see the example above) than others (e.g. att. AC with an adverbial function or modifying an...

The Gift 2.0 - A Museological Study of donations of Objects and its Underlying Motives, is a study in order to explain why people choose to donate items for museums, rather than any other alternative.The empirical study consists of qualitative, semi-structured research-interviews conducted with seven selected curators from various museums, with extensive experience of the subject acquisition. I have chosen to only examine Swedish cultural-historical museums. The hypothesis that I assumed was first and foremost that the heritage sphere is what Pierre Bourdieu calls a field. The reason that people would donate objects to museums, is that the donation itself brings cultural capital to the donor, from people with the same habitus. Since I felt that Bourdieus theory of field, capital and habitus could not explain all the reason why people donate items to museum, my second hypotheses was that certain objects are what Annette Weiner called inalienable possessions, objects that at any cost may not be sold or bartered away. It is precisely the ability to keep the object outside of the commercial sphere that is the essential for an inalienable possession. Linked to this hypothesis I argued that museums act like a bastion of inalienable possessions, in which the donor can continue to keep the object while it has been given. My source material consists of the research interviews and secondary material that I have acquired during the study, consisting of literature, deed of gift and e-mail correspondence. I have analyzed both primary and secondary source material using my hypotheses. The results of this study verify that my hypothesis is valid to use as a musicological theory of gifts. The study is a two year master´s thesis in Museum and Heritage Studies.

The Turkish trousseau, çeyiz in Turkish, connects contemporary brides to the traditions and responsibilities of women from previous generations while demonstrating how greater access to education shapes young women's choices as consumers, spouses, and daughters. An emotionally laden collection, the çeyiz entails intergenerational negotiations between mothers and daughters who collaborate to organize the bride's future furnishings, crystallizing their respective desires and differences. A variable collection of bedding, tablecloths, curtains, and embellishments, the çeyiz serves as the bride's contribution of domestic furnishings for the new couple's house An analysis of the trousseau engages with the past and the present revealing how young women's lives are being transformed over time. By comparing mothers with daughters, I demonstrate that, within one generation, young women have greater agency over their futures At the same time, however, they are expected to comply with the traditional roles of marriage, suggesting that their gains are not permanent. The trousseau's material and affective contents reveal the shifts--and continuities--in family relationships, marriage, and consumption engendered by Turkish modernity. Drawing on the analytical works of Annette Weiner, who researched Samoans, Trobrianders, and the Maoris, I approach the çeyiz as an "inalienable possession," connecting generations of women, mothers and daughters, who reproduce through it their expectations for marriage (Weiner 1992). This dissertation also considers the subjective implications of the çeyiz; it serves as a technology of self, honing women's skills and tastes in preparation for their future. The urban Turkish çeyiz reveals that young Turkish women desire new subjectivities, which they display through consumption and acquire through education. This research demonstrates that increased education influences how Istanbul brides select the contents of their çeyiz and envision their futures as wives. More than a symbol for marriage, the rapidly changing bridal çeyiz envelops Turkey's participation within the global economy, national identity, and investment in equalizing gender relations.

Orientador: Artur Marques da Silva Filho / Banca: Euclides Celso Berardo / Banca: Luiz Antonio Soares Hentz / Resumo: Os direitos personalíssimos, o direito de família e a responsabilidade civil, entrelaçados, proporcionam instrumentos hábeis à proteção e tutela da dignidade da pessoa enquanto sujeito de direitos e obrigações. Erigidos a princípio constitucional, em cláusula pétrea, e tutelados pela legislação ordinária, os direitos personalíssimos exprimem valores inerentes e fundamentais da pessoa enquanto ser provido de dignidade que augura, desde a concepção, prévia, pronta, efetiva e integral proteção de seus elementares direitos por parte do ordenamento jurídico. Isso porque os direitos personalíssimos, na verdade, constituem-se no princípio, meio e fim da pessoa. É, outrossim, no seio familiar, fruto do casamento, união estável ou relacionamento eventual, que os direitos personalíssimos brotam e encontram solo profícuo para desenvolvimento. O poder familiar, em processo de evolução que transcende os limites históricos, extrapolando o âmbito do direito de família, diversamente do que ocorria outrora, modernamente, mais que direito, constitui-se em fonte de obrigações para, primeiro, tornar-se esteio norteador do aprimoramento da pessoa na busca da plenitude de seus direitos personalíssimos; segundo, gerar responsabilidade civil para aqueles que concebem e exercem-no, tanto no que tange aos diretamente ligados entre si, pelos vínculos familiares, quanto os decorrentes de relações estabelecidas junto a terceiros. Destinado a obstar perdas indevidas, no que tange aos bens, de qualquer espécie, amealhados em razão de lídimo esforço, e prestando-se como corretivo para ressarcimentos materiais e morais, decorrentes de atos ilícitos, tanto na tutela dos direitos personalíssimos quanto nas lesões de direito de família, a responsabilidade civil presta-se, precipuamente, como instrumento de pacificação social, para, na via jurisdicional... (resumo completo, clicar acesso eletrônico abaixo) / Abstract: The inalienable rights and those concerned to the family and civil responsibility make an interwoven tissue that provides the legally qualified tools to the protection and tutorship of the person dignity as an individual with rights and duties. Upraised to a constitutional principle, understood as a fundamental clause, and tutorized by the ordinary legislation, the inalienable rights express the person's inherent values as a being provided with dignity that, since the conception, augurs previous, ready, effective and integral protection to his fundamental rights by the juridical ordainment. This is so because the inalienable rights actually consist in the whole purpose of the person. Likewise it is within one's family, resulting from a marriage, stable union or occasional relationship, that the inalienable rights originate and find advantageous ground for development. The family power, in an evolutionary process that transcends the historical limits and extrapolates the ambit of the family's rights, unlikely what formerly occurred, nowadays more than a right constitutes the source of obligations, first, to become the lead support of a person's refinement in the search of the plenitude of his inalienable rights; second, to generate civil responsibility to those who conceive and practise it, both considering these rights directly connected by the family's entailment and the ones resulting from stablished relationship with third parts. Meant for thwarting undue losses concerning to any properties saved because of legitimate endeavor and being useful as an amendatory compensation for material and moral losses caused by illicit acts both in the tutorship of inalienable rights and injuries to the rights of the family, civil responsibility is useful chiefly as an instrument of social agreement to judicially avoid illicit enrichment... (Complete abstract click electronic access below) / Mestre

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This thesis examines the validity of exclusionary clauses in medical contracts, more especially, hospital contracts in which the healthcare provider exonerates itself against edictal liability arising from the negligent conduct of its staff, resulting in the patient suffering damages. In assessing whether these types of clauses should be outlawed by our courts, this thesis attempts to synthesize six major traditional areas of law, namely, the law of delict, the law of contract, medical law and ethics, international and foreign law, statutory law and constitutional law into a legal conceptual framework relating specifically to exclusionary clauses in medical contracts in South Africa. This thesis highlights systemic inconsistencies with regard to the central issue, namely, whether these types of clauses are valid or not, especially, given the fact that the practice of exclusionary clauses or waivers in hospital contracts has hitherto traditionally been assessed within the framework of the law of contract. The alignment of the various pre-existing areas of statutory and common law with the Constitution highlights that an inter-disciplinary and purposive approach under the value-driven Constitution, brings about a less fragmented picture in assessing the validity of these types of clauses. This approach accords with the new solicitude of the executive, the judiciary, the legislature and academia to transform the South African legal system not only in terms of procedural law but also substantive law. This has resulted in the alignment with constitutional principles and the underlying values to test the validity of these types of clauses, alternatively, contracts. Whereas pre-constitutionally the assessment of disclaimers in hospital contracts was done against the stratum of antiquated principles, namely, freedom of contract and the sanctity of contract, ignoring values such as reasonableness, fairness and conscionability, post-constitutionally, because the values that underlie the Bill of Rights and which affects all spheres of law, including the law of contract, concepts such as fairness, equity, reasonableness should weigh heavily with the decision-maker. In this regard, broader medico-legal considerations, normative medical ethics and the common law principles of good faith, fairness and reasonableness play a fundamental role in the assessment of contractual provisions, including the practice of disclaimers or exclusionary clauses in hospital contracts. This thesis critically examines how these types of clauses or contracts ought to be adjudicated eventually against the background of such alignment. It concludes that the entering into a hospital contract, in which the patient exonerates a hospital and its staff from liability flowing from the hospital or its staff's negligence causing damages to the patient, would be inconsistent with the Constitution and invalid. In the old order in which traditional divisions of law have been encouraged, a fragmented approach resulted in legal in congruencies which, in turn, created turbulence and a lot of uncertainty. This approach is apposite to that which the new constitutionally based legal system, aims to achieve. The rights in the Bill of Rights which are interconnected and which influences all spheres of law, including contract law, offers a fairer basis upon which, the validity of contracts, or contractual provisions, can be measured than, the pure contract approach. In this regard, although contracts or contractual provisions in the past may have been unfair and unreasonable, the courts, however, refused to strike them down purely on this basis. The law of contract, as a legal vehicle for adjudicating the validity of exclusionary clauses or waivers in hospital contracts, is therefore not ideal. This is primarily due to the antiquated approach the South African courts have always taken in this area of law. The law of delict, statutory law and medical law, standing alone, also does not provide a satisfactory answer. What is needed is an integrated approach in which the traditional areas of law are united and wherein constitutional principles and values, give much guidance and direction. Alternatively, should the unification of the traditional areas of law not be possible in bringing about fair and equitable results, the introduction of legislative measures may very well be indicated. / Thesis (LLD)--University of Pretoria, 2009. / Public Law / unrestricted

Cette recherche porte sur le moment où la philosophie de Francis Hutcheson, dans ses aspects moraux, épistémologiques et juridiques, contribue à élaborer des questionnements et des solutions innovantes et pratiques, pour le traitement des problèmes de la politique moderne. Pour répondre à la question « Qu’est-ce que la politique du sens moral ? », il faut considérer qu’il existe un sens de la moralité naturel, immédiat et involontaire chez chaque individu. Ce sens est le critère de jugement de l’action politique la meilleure, selon deux objectifs : le maintien de la paix et de l’harmonie sociale et la poursuite du bonheur, soit du plus grand bien pour le plus grand nombre. Même si les individus ne peuvent pas toujours agir par le meilleur moyen en vue d’une fin politique et éthique, tous sont aptes à juger de ce qu’il convient de faire. La politique du sens moral considère ainsi 1. Comment l’état de nature est un état de liberté où une sociabilité naturelle est décrite, indépendamment de la création des institutions civiles et politiques et aussi, quelles sont les conditions de retour à un tel état, à partir de l’éducation morale et politique ? Comment la société civile et le gouvernement se mettent en place avec un consentement, soit un artifice. 3. Enfin, comment la protection des droits inaliénables peut être assurée avec le concept de responsabilité politique, impliquant le risque pour sa vie en faveur de l’intérêt commun. / This study focuses on the moment when Francis Hutcheson’s philosophy, in its moral, epistemological and legal aspects, contributes to elaborating questionings and innovative practical solutions to deal with the issues of modern politics. To answer the question “What is the politics of moral sense?”, it must be considered that each individual possesses a natural, immediate and involuntary sense of morality. This moral sense is the criterion of judgement of the best political action depending on two aims: preservation of peace and social harmony; and the pursuit of happiness, that is, the greatest happiness for the greatest number. Even if individuals are not always able to act with the best means for a political and ethical purpose, all are able to judge what should be done. The politics of moral sense considers 1. How the state of nature is a state of liberty where a natural sociability is described, independently of the creation of civil and political institutions; and in parallel, what are the conditions of a return to such a state, based on a moral and political education. 2. How civil society and government are created with trust, or in other words, with an artifice. 3. Finally, how the protection of inalienable rights can be guaranteed with the concept of political responsibility, involving risking one’s life in support of the common interest. / Esta pesquisa se situa onde a filosofia de Francis Hutcheson, nos seus aspectos morais, epistemologicos e juridicos, contribui a elaborar questionamentos e soluçoes inovadoras e prâticas, para o tratamento dos problemas da politica moderna. Para responder à questào « o que é a politica do senso moral ? », deve-se considerar que existe um senso da moralidade natural, imediato e involontârio em cada indivfduo. Este senso é o critério de julgamento da melhor açào politica, segundo dois objetivos : a manutençao da paz e da hannonia social e a persecuçào da felicidade, quai seja o maior bem para o maior nùmero. Mesmo se os individuos nem sempre podem agir pelo melhor meio em vista de um firn politico e ético, todos estào aptos a julgar acerca do que comvém fazer. A politica do senso moral considera assim : 1. Como o estado de natureza é um estado de libertdade, no quai uma sociabilidade natural esta configurada, independentemente da criaçào das instituiçoes civis e politicas e igualmente, quais sào as condiçoes para retorno a tal estado, a partir da educaçào moral e politica. 2. Corno a sociedade civil e o governo ocupam seu lugar com um consentimento, ou seja, um artiffcio. 3. Enfim, como a proteçào dos direitos inalienâveis pode ser assegurada corn o conceito de responsabilidade politica, implicando atTiscar sua vida em favor do interesse comum.