A major driving force in the theoretical linguistic field is discovering the nature that language must have in the abstract in order to be learned in such a fashion.

" Thus, one does not find in his work a theoretical attempt to discern what constitutes a major work or a work of art, or even handicraft.

A major theoretical issue is: " Which came first, the nation or the nation state?

They are, in my opinion, the most outstanding figures ( among the youngest ones ), and the following must be borne in mind about them: Bukharin is not only a most valuable and major theorist of the Party ; he is also rightly considered the favourite of the whole Party, but his theoretical views can be classified as fully Marxist only with great reserve, for there is something scholastic about him ( he has never made a study of the dialectics, and, I think, never fully understood it )...

It involves two major research tasks, namely: ( i ) the construction of instruments and procedures for measurement ; and ( ii ) the development and refinement of theoretical approaches to measurement.

One of the major tasks of rheology is to empirically establish the relationships between deformations and stresses, respectively their derivatives by adequate measurements, although a number of theoretical developments ( such as assuring frame invariants ) are also required before using the empirical data.

Many other cuprate superconductors have since been discovered, and the theory of superconductivity in these materials is one of the major outstanding challenges of theoretical condensed matter physics.

Others, however, emphasized its theoretical novelty, and argued that evolutionary stasis had been " unexpected by most evolutionary biologists " and " had a major impact on paleontology and evolutionary biology ".

Quantum chemistry, the application of quantum mechanics to the understanding of valency, is a major component of theoretical chemistry.

Historically, the major field of application of theoretical chemistry has been in the following fields of research:

A major theoretical foundation for world history was given by German philosopher G. W. F. Hegel, who saw the modern Prussian state as the highest stage of world development.

Fromm's most popular book was The Art of Loving, an international bestseller first published in 1956, which recapitulated and complemented the theoretical principles of human nature found in Escape from Freedom and Man for Himself — principles which were revisited in many of Fromm's other major works.

Alonzo Church ( June 14, 1903 – August 11, 1995 ) was an American mathematician and logician who made major contributions to mathematical logic and the foundations of theoretical computer science.

A theoretical synthesis in 2000 suggested the following mechanism: thalidomide intercalates ( inserts itself ) into DNA in guanine-cytosine-rich regions .< ref > Owing to its glutarimide part, ( S ) thalidomide fits neatly into the major groove of DNA at purine sites.

The question of how superconductivity arises in high-temperature superconductors is one of the major unsolved problems of theoretical condensed matter physics.

Though musicological study of popular music has vastly increased in quantity recently, Middleton's assertion in 1990 — that most major " works of musicology, theoretical or historical, act as though popular music did not exist "— holds true.

The major features of the Ionic order are the volutes of its capital, which have been the subject of much theoretical and practical discourse, based on a brief and obscure passage in Vitruvius.

The second major problem with the meaning of neoliberalism is that neoliberalism went from being a purely theoretical ideology to become a practical and applied one.

Unfortunately it has not been possible to locate a well detailed discussion on the basis of the various conventions for estimating the risk free rate through proxy rates, which appears to be a major ' hole ' in the theoretical literature.

In his major theoretical statement, " Opera and Drama " ( 1852 ), Wagner made similar objections to the music of Meyerbeer, without referring to the latter's Jewish origins.

The delimitation of the Mongolian language within Mongolic is a much disputed theoretical problem, one whose resolution is impeded by the fact that existing data for the major varieties is not easily arrangeable according to a common set of linguistic criteria.

The major theoretical problem with applying cladistics to textual criticism is that cladistics assumes that, once a branching has occurred in the family tree, the two branches cannot rejoin ; so all similarities can be taken as evidence of common ancestry.

His major theoretical and cultural statement from this period is The Art of Being Ruled ( 1926 ).

Together, their work constitutes the Scott-Strachey approach to denotational semantics ; it constitutes one of the most influential pieces of work in theoretical computer science and can perhaps be regarded as founding one of the major schools of computer science.

There have been two major branches in the field of language learning ; the empirical and theoretical, and these have almost completely separate histories, with each gaining ground over the other at one point in time or another.

The term " Altaic ", as the name for a language family, was introduced in 1844 by Matthias Castrén, a pioneering Finnish philologist who made major contributions to the study of the Uralic languages.

In the nineteenth century the major figures of mathematical acoustics were Helmholtz in Germany, who consolidated the field of physiological acoustics, and Lord Rayleigh in England, who combined the previous knowledge with his own copious contributions to the field in his monumental work The Theory of Sound ( 1877 ).

Their first album, Tales of Mystery and Imagination, including major contributions by all members of Pilot and Ambrosia, was a success, reaching the Top 40 in the US Billboard 200 chart.

The other major contributions of the Qin include the concept of a centralized government, the unification of the legal code, development of the written language, measurement, and currency of China after the tribulations of the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods.

He made major contributions to logic, but logic for him encompassed much of that which is now called epistemology and philosophy of science.

Other chemists who brought major contributions to organic chemistry include Alexander William Williamson with his synthesis of ethers and Christopher Kelk Ingold, who, among many discoveries, established the mechanisms of substitution reactions.

Cretan authors have made important contributions to Greek Literature throughout the modern period ; major names include Vikentios Kornaros, creator of the 17th century epic romance Erotokritos ( Greek Ερωτόκριτος ), and in the 20th century Nikos Kazantzakis.

One of the major contributions to fighting cholera was made by the physician and pioneer medical scientist John Snow ( 1813 – 1858 ), who in 1854 found a link between cholera and contaminated drinking water.

Because the Army Distinguished Service Medal is principally awarded to general officers, a list of notable recipients would include nearly every general and admiral since 1918, many of whom received multiple awards, as well as a few civilians and sergeants major prominent for their contributions to national defense.

Among his major contributions to linguistics is his classification of Indigenous languages of the Americas, which he elaborated for most of his professional life.

German cinema has made major technical and artistic contributions to film.

Among Galen ’ s major contributions to medicine was his work on the circulatory system.

A moral philosopher who produced alternatives to the ideas of Thomas Hobbes, one of his major contributions to world thought was the utilitarian and consequentialist principle that virtue is that which provides, in his words, " the greatest happiness for the greatest numbers ".

In addition, generous U. S. contributions to the refugee program in Pakistan played a major part in efforts to assist Afghan refugees.

" Another of Hippocrates's major contributions may be found in his descriptions of the symptomatology, physical findings, surgical treatment and prognosis of thoracic empyema, i. e. suppuration of the lining of the chest cavity.

Sartre wrote self-consciously and successfully in a number of literary modes and made major contributions to literary criticism and literary biography.

** for his profound contributions to three major areas of operations research and management science: inventory theory, dynamic programming and lattice programming.

** for his profound contributions to two major areas of operations research and management science: stochastic networks and mathematical finance.

He made major contributions to the theory of approximate molecular orbital ( MO ) calculations, starting with one identical to the one developed by Rudolph Pariser and Robert G. Parr on pi electron systems, and now called the Pariser-Parr-Pople method.

His major contributions were the introduction of a closed tuned circuit in the generating part of the transmitter, and its separation from the radiating part ( the antenna ) by means of inductive coupling, and later on the usage of crystals for receiving purposes.

Nucleosome positions are controlled by three major contributions: First, the intrinsic binding affinity of the histone octamer depends on the DNA sequence.

In the climate of English thought in the period following Isaac Newton's major contributions to physics, there was much discussion of a distinction between primary qualities and secondary qualities.

These issues were addressed during the late 1960s and early 1970s, with major contributions by Dijkstra, Robert W. Floyd, Tony Hoare, and David Gries.

Islamic law also made " major contributions " to international admiralty law, departing from the previous Roman and Byzantine maritime laws in several ways.

Ditko then worked for Charlton and DC Comics, making major contributions, including a revamp of long-running character Blue Beetle, and creating or co-creating the Question, the Creeper, and Hawk and Dove.