The second book of the Bible, Exodus, is the subject of this essay, covering the growth and enslavement of the Israelite nation, early career of Moses, rescue from Egypt, and covenant on Sinai.

It follows from the usage-based view of language adopted in most strands of Construction Grammar that the constructicons of speakers of what is considered to be one and the same language will differ along social, or ‘lectal’, lines. This chapter explains the inherent theoretical importance of lectal variation for Construction Grammar and surveys existing construction-based work on synchronic language variation. Four major research strands are discussed: (i) studies aimed at the analysis of the form and/or meaning poles of constructions from specific lects; (ii) comparisons of the properties of a given construction or a set of related constructions across different lects; (iii) quantitative studies of grammatical alternations which include lectal variables in their research design; and (iv) studies of social variables involved in the propagation of constructional changes through communities of speakers. The chapter also identifies a number of challenges and open questions.

Taking a rationalist approach to institutions as equilibria, I develop a critical perspective on whether and when intergovernmental organizations (IGOs) promote peaceful change. I challenge the standard view that cooperation through IGOs is necessarily “peaceful” by tightening the definition of peaceful change to include not only being nonviolent and voluntary but also being noncoercive. Whether voluntary cooperation is peaceful now depends not only on the means used and end point of change but also on its starting point. Whenever prevailing institutions overly favor (previously) powerful states, seemingly cooperative change within IGOs entails implicit elements of coercion. This is especially true of formal IGOs (FIGOs) whose rules and agency are tightly tied to the interests of the powerful. By contrast, the greater flexibility of informal IGOs (IIGOs) enables them to promote change that is more inclusive of the interests of all concerned. Their greater operational capacity may give FIGOs a comparative advantage for adapting international order – and thus for peaceful change when the international order is just. But IIGOs are more effective for promoting peaceful change when larger transformational change of the international order is needed.

Modes and purposes of the memorial practices of aristocratic families were formative to Roman readings of the past. The memoria of the gentes was imprinted deeply on the Republic’s history culture, but was subject to the challenges from other formats of remembering the past, historiography in particular. The pompa and laudatio funebris both heralded and magnified a family’s esteem through the display of imagines and the recollection of narratives of exemplary virtue. While these achievements were uncontested among the gens itself, in the public arena they might have been a bone of contention. The memoria of the gentes distorted that of the Republic as a whole, influencing the work of the first historians, the compilation of lists of magistrates and office-holders, and the outlook of public space. Historiography also distanced and indeed distinguished itself from the memoria of the elites. Discourses of decadence widened the gap between the two media. Meanwhile citizens outside Rome were more removed from the mechanisms of aristocratic remembering and could only access a history of Rome in written format. Elite memories ceased to wield their magnetic force, but they also lingered on in historiography.

The care for sustainability is one of the most urgent problems addressed by policy makers. It requires combined effort by multiple players for its efficiency. There are various levels at which different tools of multiple character are being introduced. Eventually, they turn into policies and actions by private businesses and public agencies. These different instruments can be of legislative and regulatory nature introduced on various levels: the UN conventions, communications, policies and protocols, the EU legislation, the Member States, regional and local authorities. As a result, they take a shape of instruments of various types. The range of non-regulatory tools that supplement the regulatory instruments is wide and often takes the form of financial measures. They can be divided into four groups – incentives, tradable instruments, fines and contractual compensations. All these instruments differ in terms of their character, reach and efficiency. Not necessarily being perfect, still, they contribute to the overall re-shift of approach and help transforming the current anxiety for the nature to tangible actions that protect it. The text addresses questions that are not limited to analyses of the efficiency of existing financial tools but also refer to what else could be done to enhance them and make them even more efficient.

This chapter highlights connections of the book’s topics to structures used in all areas of mathematics. Cantor famously proved that no set can be mapped onto its power set. We present some analogous results for metric spaces and posets. On the category of topological spaces, we consider endofunctors built from the Vietoris endofunctor using products, coproducts, composition, and constant functors restricted for Hausdorff spaces. Every such functor has an initial algebra and a terminal coalgebra. Similar results hold for the Hausdorff functor on (complete) metric spaces. Extending a result of Freyd, we exhibit structures on the unit interval [0, 1] making it a terminal coalgebra of an endofunctor on bipointed metric spaces. The positive irrationals and other subsets of the real line are described as terminal coalgebras or corecursive algebras for some set functors, calling on results from the theory of continued fractions.

This chapter, structured in three sections, discusses an aspect of significant importance in relation to sustainable finance under EU secondary law: the gradual shift from capital markets to banking regulation. Section 21.1 sets the scene, by briefly overviewing the initiatives of (mainly) the (European) Commission in relation to sustainable finance – which are mainly related to EU capital markets regulation, albeit with an impact on credit institutions as well – and the rules adopted by the European Parliament and Council during the period 2019–2021. The focus of the following section 21.2 is on the legislative proposals submitted by the Commission in 2021 to amend the CRD IV and the CRR in relation to sustainability and contribution to the green transition. After a general overview of this legislative ‘banking package’ and some introductory remarks on the proposed amendments (including the harmonised definitions of the ESG-related risks by amendment of the CRR), this section presents the key proposed new rules (by amendment of the CRD IV) which relate to governance issues, ESG risks, the supervisory review and evaluation process (SREP) and the enhanced competent authorities’ powers, as well as the (further) amendments proposed to the CRR. Section 21.3 contains the concluding remarks.

Movement disorders arise from dysfunctional physiology within the motor and movement systems of the nervous system, and can involve multiple anatomic locations. A myriad of electrophysiologic manifestations can be detected in electromyography (EMG), electroencephalography (EEG), and other methods. Technical factors must be carefully considered and technical quality should be monitored throughout. Surface EMG provides the basis for the electrophysiologic examination of movement disorders. EEG is important for establishing cortical genesis as well as consciousness state determination during the movement disorder. Tremors of different etiologies may have different frequencies and activation characteristics that are best discovered on analysis of surface EMG characteristics. Also, classification of myoclonus physiology needs electrophysiologic testing. Proper myoclonus classification forms the best approach to symptomatic treatment strategy. Results from this testing provide important supplemental information, which can be used for a more exact diagnosis that leads to treatment.

This paper summarizes the United States’ legal framework governing Internet “platforms” that publish third-party content. It highlights three key features of U.S. law: the constitutional protections for free speech and press, the statutory immunity provided by 47 U.S.C. § 230 (“Section 230”), and the limits on state regulation of the Internet. It also discusses US efforts to impose mandatory transparency obligations on Internet “platforms.”

The Introduction sets out the main analytical framework to probe a transregional formation of Arabic learning. Building on a rich historiography of the Indian Ocean world and its various regions it formulates an approach to studying mobile manuscripts with a view to exploring the shared social and cultural histories of learned communities. It discusses ‘mobilities’ as the potential of manuscripts to move around and ‘histories of circulation’ as actualised or ‘enacted’ movement among scribes, readers, and owners of manuscripts. In particular, it engages with the concepts of ‘enactment’ to study social and cultural mobilities of manuscripts and ‘entanglement’ to plot these mobilities on a transoceanic field of Arabic learning. Arabic philology takes centre stage in this study and represents a diverse and many-sided field of Arabic learning. Manuscript collections which form the empirical basis of the research are delineated and discussed.

In this chapter, a central tenet of Construction Grammar is explored: the idea that linguistic knowledge on all levels (e.g., lexicon, morphosyntax, pragmatics) is related in a network fashion, with the building blocks of language (i.e., constructions) forming different types of connections (i.e., links). In general, we discuss the ingredients of constructional networks with our main focus on construction-external links (vertical and horizontal). Another aim of the chapter is to embed constructional networks into a larger domain-general theory of networks but also to demarcate constructional modeling from other network models in linguistics, like Connectionism or models of sociolinguistic propagation. We also glance at how diachronic network change is currently being conceptualized and end by a discussion of open issues.

Chapter 10 As the French Revolution became increasingly violent, there was an growing backlash in Britain against the celebration of liberty as independence. One response, popular among a number of conservative churchman, took the form of reviving the claim that all subjects have a duty of non-resistance and passive obedience. But a different although no less hostile response came from a number of self-styled ‘liberal’ legal and political writers who saw themselves as equally opposed to conservatives and revolutionaries. This group has been little studied, but the aim of this chapter is to show that they were of central importance in discrediting the ideal of liberty as independence. They accepted the Hobbesian view that most of our natural rights must be given up in the name of peace, and that the rights remaining to us as subjects of states must basically take the form of the silence of the law. Although the ideal of liberty as independence continued to be celebrated by early British socialists, the liberal writers paved the way for the explicitly Hobbesian commitments of the early utilitarians, who finally succeeded in turning the claim that liberty cannot mean anything other than exemption from restraint into a new orthodoxy.

Over the last four decades, Construction Grammar has developed into a rich, robust conceptual framework for analyzing language in its entirety, based on the crucial assumption that language by its nature is a complex and ever-adapting and adaptable system designed for communication. The starting point was Charles J. Fillmore’s vision for an approach that would allow us to analyze grammatical organization of (any) language in such a way that we could answer the broad question of what it means to know one’s language and to use its grammatical resources with native-like fluency by individual speakers within a given language community. Put differently, this framing aims for generalizations that will naturally include systematic observations about meaning and conditions of language use as integral parts of grammatical descriptions.