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ABSTRACTS

A LANGUAGE-UNION IN INDO-CHINA

Natalia F. ALIEVA, Moscow

This article discusses the problem of typological characteristics of the Cham language. The authoress postulates the so-called Indo-Chinese language-union and enumerates its chief phonological, morphological, syntactic and lexical features. The Cham language is characretized as a member of this union together with some other languages in Indo-China belonging to various genetic families.

TOWARD THE TYPOLOGY OF LINGUISTIC SITUATIONS

Viktor KRUPA, Bratislava

This paper deals with the classification of various linguistic situations in terms of their heterogeneity. The heterogeneity is defined both upon the vertical and the horizontal levels and factors are discussed that are responsible for the notion of linguistic dominance.

BENGALI PARTICLES

Anna RÁCOVÁ, Bratislava

This a classification of Bengali particles. They are divided into word-modifying particles and sentence modifying particles. In accordance with their basic function, the word-modifying particles are classified into determinative, emphatic and negative, and sentence-modifying particles into interrogative, evaluative, and emphatic ones. Some finer semantic and also other criteria are used in more detailed classification of the basic groups of particles.

ROOT RECONSTRUCTION IN THE ARABIC WORD-FORMATION AND INFLECTION

Ladislav DROZDÍK, Bratislava

The present study surveys a number of root reconstructions occurring in the Arabic word-formation and inflection. Although the phenomenon may be stated both in diachronic and synchronic terms, it will be examined, in the descriptive frame of the present paper, as a synchronic phenomenon.

IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF THE INSPECTOR-GENERAL: TWO CONTEMPORARY CHINESE PLAYS

Marián GÁLIK, Bratislava

The aim of this article is to bring out comparative aspects in two plays in relation to N.V. Gogols The Inspector-General, their analysis, varied evaluations by contemporary critics, audience (or readers), and to assess the reception of The Inspector-General in pre-1949 China and the impact of The Inspector-General „Stoff“ in the literature of the PRC.

LIU BINYAN'S COME-BACK TO THE CONTEMPORARY CHINESE LITERARY SCENE

Anna DOLEZALOVÁ, Bratislava

Liu Binyan, author of two feature stories that are among the best known works of the Hundred Flowers period, was persecuted for over two decades as a „rightist“. He was allowed to publish again in 1979 and has since written an essay in defence of a thesis on the task of literature to „intervene in life“. He began to write works in conformity with his view on the urgency to expose the dark side and the first of these works, a feature story, Between Men and Monsters, by the daring of its processing caused quite a sensation and evoked an enthusiastic reader response.

CERTAINS ASPECTS DU DÉVELOPPEMENT DE LA PROSE VIETNAMIENNE PENDANT LES ANNÉES 1959-1965

Ján MÚCKA, Bratislava

Un phénomène remarquable qui s'est fait sentir d'une manière pressante et sous une forme concrète dans la socièté vietnamienne de la période indiquée ci-dessus, c'était une lutte pour la conscience de l'homme enthousiasmé des transformations et des idées nouvelles. Une place irremplaceable dans la connaissance des relations et affinités du développement socio-culturel et des problèmes actuels d'alors revint à la littérature et dans ce cadre, aussi à la production en prose. Celle-ci aida à relever le mouvement à partir de la conscience sociale vers la réalité et à signaler l'acceptation différenciée d'idées et conceptions socio-politiques nouvelles.

THE INTRODUCTION OF KANT'S IDEAS INTO JAPAN AND ITS HISTORICAL PREREQUISITES

Josef FASS, Prague

Mediaeval Japan was closed until 1853 to foreign, European ideas with the exception of Holland. Therefore, the first information on Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) came from Leiden. Influence came also from some other Western countries, finally from Germany. Two generations of Japanese thinkers accepted Kant's ideal with different intensity. Notwithstanding the defence of traditional values by the Confucianists, Kant's ideas became influential, via Japan, in China and elsewhere, too.

JAPAN'S FOREIGN POLICY TOWARDS ASIAN COUNTRIES DURING THE PERIOD SINCE THE SIGNING OF A SEPARATE PEACE TREATY UNTIL THE END OF 1954 AND SOLUTION OF THE QUESTION OF REPARATIONS

Karol KUTKA, Bratislava

The present study has for aim to analyse Japan's foreign policy and her position in Asia during the period 1952-1954. Attention will be primarily concentrated on the efforts by Yoshida's government at normalizing relations with countries of Southeast Asia, on its approach to the question of reparations and on the first steps designed to boost Japan's political and economic influence in this region.

THE WAR OF INDEPENDENCE, 1897-1899. THE CULMINATION OF ANTI-COLONIAL ACTIVITIES IN THE KINGDOMS OF BUGANDA AND BUNYORO

Viera VILHANOVÁ-PAWLIKOVÁ, Bratislava

To British officials and missionaries upon whose accounts historians have largely relied, the underlying rationale behind the so-called Mwanga's rebellion seemed obscure and futile. It is the main point of this article that military resistance can be best seen as a continuation of politics by other means pursued ever since Mwanga's accession to the throne and aimed to maintain the autonomy and independence of his kingdom. From re-reading of the available historical evidence, it also appears that this independence war, waged between July 1897 and April 1899 by the Baganda, later joined by some Banyoro, Sudanese and other nationals, was to some extent a resistance movement both different from and more complex than all earlier manifestations of opposition to the imposition of British colonial rule in Buganda nad Bunyoro, since during its course incipient attempts had been made to overcome ethnic boundaries and rivalries and to create a broader anti-colonial coalition.