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KRUPA, Viktor: Some Comments on the Nature of Sign, p. 117
KRUPA, Viktor: Noun Classes in Fijian and Their Semantics, p. 123
RÁCOVÁ, Anna: On the Category of Definiteness in Bengali, p. 127
DROZDÍK, Ladislav: Word-Formational Assimilation of Loanwords in Arabic, p. 133
GÁLIK, Marián: Modern Asian Literatures: Towards a Potential Comparative Approach to Their Study, p. 145
DOLEZALOVÁ, Anna: Suggestions Regarding Periodization of Literature in the People's Republic of China, p. 153
CELNAROVÁ, Xénia: The Problem of Man's Relation to Society in the Works of Erdal Öz, p. 161

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LES CAPITULATIONS ET LES VILLES OTTOMANES

Zdenka VESELÁ-PRENOSILOVÁ, Prague

Cette étude analyse les conséquences des capitulations pour la structure sociale des villes ottomanes. Celles-ci, dépendant de l'administration d'Etat, ne jouaient qu' un rôle subalterne dans la vie politique du pays. Par contre, le système des millets (communauté religieuse) présentait un facteur important divisant la structure de la bourgeoisie. Au dernier siècle, les chrétiens de l'Empire Ottoman pouvaient aussi jouir des capitulations. Ainsi, les capitulations, tout en soutenant la bourgeoisie chrétienne, obligeaient la bourgeoisie turque à garder une position secondaire et de cette façon, représentaient un facteur retardataire dans l'evolution des villes ottomanes vers une vie sociale du pays sur son chemin historique vers le capitalisme.

DIE OSMANISCHE EXPANSION UND DIE SLOWAKEI
(Ergebnisse und Perspektiven)

Vojtech KOPCAN, Bratislava

Der Autor faßt die bisherigen Ergebnisse der Forschung über die osmanische Expansion auf dem Gebiete der jetzigen Slowakei samt bibliographischer Angaben zusammen und umreißt die Perspectiven der weiteren Erforschung dieser Problematik.

THE STRUGGLE FOR THE RED SEA: MUSSOLINI'S POLICY IN YAMAN, 1934-1943

John BALDRY, Al Hudaydah

After occupying Aden in 1839, Britain progressively concluded agreements with the rulers of Arabia whose territory abutted on the coast of the Peninsula. By 1917 these treaties, by denying the local rulers the right to treat with other powers, had given Britain control of the two sea routes through the Red Sea and Arabian Gulf to its Eastern Empire. By this time Yaman and the odd Hijazi port constituted the sole gaps around the whole Arabian coast where Britain had failed to obtain recognition of its primacy from the local rulers.

THE QUESTION OF JAPANESE REPARATIONS AFTER WORLD WAR II AND ITS DEVELOPMENT UP TO THE YEAR 1949

Karol KUTKA, Bratislava

The aim of the present study is to outline the overall course of development in solving the question of Japanese reparations during the period of occupation of Japan, pointing on the one hand, to the way this issue was treated within the competence of the Far Eastern Commission and to the agreements arrived at, and on the other, to the manner in which the United States of America misused the solving of this question for their own strategic goals in Asia.

SOME COMMENTS ON THE NATURE OF SIGN

Viktor KRUPA, Bratislava

Linguistic signs are classified into iconic and conventional. Neither of them are in a causal relation to their referents. There are various degrees of iconicism. The problem of unilaterality or bilaterality of sign is regarded as a pseudoproblem. Language as a means of reflecting reality is discrete, being continuous as an object of investigation. Sign, as the cognitive process in general, is based upon the principle pars pro toto.

NOUN CLASSES IN FIJIAN AND THEIR SEMANTICS

Viktor KRUPA, Bratislava

This is an analysis of the content of the category of possession in Fijian. There are four classes which seem to be a later elaboration of a simpler binary opposition as known from, e.g., the Polynesian languages.

ON THE CATEGORY OF DEFINITENESS IN BENGALI

Anna RÁCOVÁ, Bratislava

This is an attempt to show how the universal logico-semantic deep category of definiteness becomes manifest in the surface structure of the Bengali language.

WORD-FORMATIONAL ASSIMILATION OF LOANWORDS IN ARABIC

Ladislav DROZDÍK, Bratislava

The study is concerned with a number of the most outstanding word-formational aspects of lexical borrowing in Modern Written Arabic. An attempt is made at establishing a significant relation between the ability of the borrowed units to be subsequently resegmented in accordance with relevant linguistic structures of Arabic, and their capacity for being integrated into the Arabic lexicon.

MODERN ASIAN LITERATURES: TOWARDS A POTENTIAL COMPARATIVE APPROACH TO THEIR STUDY

Marián GÁLIK, Bratislava

This article is devoted to a potential project to study modern Asian literatures within an international framework using the systemo-structural approach.

SUGGESTIONS REGARDING PERIODIZATION OF LITERATURE IN THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA

Anna DOLEZALOVÁ, Bratislava

The specific conditions of literary development in the People's Republic of China require that suitable criteria be set up for its periodization. As the most adequate, we may consider the criteria of China's cultural policy directly related to the country's political development and on this basis, three principal stages of literary development in the PRC may be set up.

THE PROBLEM OF MAN'S RELATION TO SOCIETY IN THE WORKS OF ERDAL ÖZ

Xénia CELNAROVÁ, Bratislava

The work of the contemporary Turkish writer, Erdal Öz (born 1935), rather small in extent, reflects the efforts of the Turkish petty bourgeois intellectuals to find their bearings in the complex social situation prevailing in their country during the past three decades. While in the writings from the fifties-sixties, Erdal Öz leaves the hopelessly lonely hero to stand aloof from all political events, in those from the early seventies he draws him into the maelstrom of social reality.