David Bentley
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 217609 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | David Bentley |
| NOMBRES | David |
| APELLIDO | Bentley |
| FIRMA | BENTLEY D |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Manchester |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2203-5197 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 33 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 51 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 32 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1997 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Microvariation at the Interfaces
Presentational constructions, i.e., structures which introduce an event into the universe of discourse, raise the question of what it means for a predication to be entirely new in information structural terms. While there is growing consensus that these constructions are not topicless, there is no agreement on how to analyse their topic. The Romance languages of Northern Italy have figured prominently in this debate because the presentational con…
Internally caused change as change by inner predisposition
This article investigates the morphosyntax of verbs of internally caused scalar change and the main facets of their meaning. Availing ourselves of primary evidence from Italian, French, and Spanish corpora, we argue that the verbs under scrutiny divide into three subclasses whose common denominator is that they encode ‘change by inner predisposition’ or change that is possible because of inherent propensities of specific entities. We understand i…
The role of the highest courts of the United States of America and South Africa, and the European Court of Justice in foreign affairs
The morality of security
The morality of security: a theory of just securitization The morality of security: a theory of just securitization. By Rita Floyd. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2019. 239pp. £31.00. Isbn978 1 10849 389 5. Available as e-book. David Bentley David Bentley Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 96, Issue 3, May 2020, Pages 819–821, https://doi.org/10.1093/ia/iiaa082 Published:…
Irresolute clay
Readers of this journal may wonder why they should be expected to read a study of environmental law. The title may puzzle them too (though the idea can be traced back to the opening of Ovid's Metamorphoses). Furthermore, the book starts with an amusing anecdote from Professor Richard Macrory's early employment as a factotum in Hollywood. As his preface explains, the book is ‘not intended to be an academic critique of environmental law nor a defin…
Cyber espionage and international law
Cyber espionage and international law Cyber espionage and international law. By Russell Buchan. Oxford: Hart Publishing. 2019. 219pp. £70.00. Isbn978 1 78225 734 9. £66.50. Available as e-book. David Bentley David Bentley Corresponding author: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 96, Issue 2, March 2020, Pages 527–528, https://doi.org/10.1093/ia/iiaa042 Pu…
Law's wars
Richard Abel is an eminent scholar of the sociology of law, who grew up during South Africa's apartheid regime (and it shows). In Law's wars and Law's trials readers are offered a detailed examination of the response of American institutions to the ‘war on terror’ (dutifully awarded scare quote marks). To an outsider, the exercise is fascinating—and alarming. At its centre is American law, though Abel does not confine himself to the language of t…
The trial of the Kaiser
We live in an age of anniversaries. The trial of the Kaiser appeared in the centenary year of the armistice that ended the First World War—and just 80 years after Neville Chamberlain returned from Munich in September 1938, announcing peace in our time. (Kristallnacht occurred a couple of months after Munich. In the following year Germany invaded Poland.) Despite German acceptance of article 227 of the 1919 Treaty of Versailles, providing for Kais…
The United States Department of Defense Law of War Manual
When reviewing William Boothby and Wolff Heintschel von Heinegg's similarly titled book (The law of war, Cambridge University Press, 2018; reviewed in International Affairs 94: 6, Nov. 2018), I suggested deferring purchase until the book now under review appeared at the end of that year for comparison. It turns out that the two books are very different, but complement each other. Boothby and Von Heinegg's work is a paragraph by paragraph summary …
Dogs as an Adjunct to Therapy
Approximately 17,000 new cases of spinal cord injury (SCI) are reported annually in the United States. Rehabilitation from SCI involves substantial mental, emotional, and physical challenges. Using a randomized controlled trial design, we assessed the efficacy of animal-assisted therapy (AAT) as an aid in rehabilitation following a SCI. We hypothesized that patients with SCI undergoing rehabilitation occupational therapy with AAT would demonstrat…
Rebel law
After practising as a barrister, Dr Ledwidge served as an adviser to the British government and other official bodies in various conflict zones. His conclusions from this experience were well described by the title of his previous book, Losing small wars (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2011). Rebel law addresses ‘lawfare’, a special case of Ledwidge's general thesis that counter-insurgency campaigns fail through, among other things, ignora…
The law of war
This is not an easy book to review. It is a line-by-line commentary on a separate work. The old reviewer's standby—that it deserves a place on the shelves of every library—comes to mind. As its authorship would lead one to expect, it is a substantial and careful study. Like William H. Boothby's The law of targeting (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012; reviewed in International Affairs 89: 4, July 2013), it states its ‘target audience’, essenti…
Corruption and misuse of public office
Grammaticalization of subject agreement on evidence from Italo-Romance
In this paper we consider the grammaticalization of subject agreement adducing first-hand synchronic evidence from presentational VS constructions in Italo-Romance dialects. While the existing literature has placed emphasis on the pragmatic properties of the controller, we explore its semantic properties. We argue that variation in subject agreement can only be fully captured with reference to an independently established semantic scale of subjec…
Journalism in an age of terror
The British Prime Minister Theresa May explained last November, when the UK's Investigatory Powers Act 2016 became law, that ‘we do not comment publicly on the methods or capabilities available to the security and intelligence agencies’ (themselves a part of what has come to be known as ‘the secret state’). The Guardian newspaper spluttered: ‘“Extreme surveillance” becomes UK law with barely a whimper’. The following month the head of the UK's Se…
On fantasy island
The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary gives as one meaning of fantasy: ‘A supposition resting on no solid grounds’, adding ‘(Now emphatically contemptuous)’. Conor Gearty, Professor of Human Rights Law at the London School of Economics, had a stroke of luck: Britain voted to leave the European Union (Brexit) on 23 June 2016. In a lurid preface written the following month, he was thus able to link the victorious Brexiteers with this book's target,…
Iran's nuclear program and international law
After decades of confrontation with the West over its nuclear activities, in July 2015 Iran and the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council, plus Germany and the European Union, concluded the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) to resolve the problem. The JCPOA, which is not a legally binding treaty, ‘envisions’ that in future Iran's activities ‘will be exclusively peaceful’, and in return provides for the gradual lif…
International law and new wars
Christine Chinkin is Emerita Professor of International Law and Director of the Centre for Women, Peace and Security, and Mary Kaldor is Professor of Global Governance and Director of the Civil Society and Human Security Research Unit, at the London School of Economics. International law and new wars brings together themes they have pursued over many years. Despite its ‘long gestation’ during which ‘the world has changed dramatically’, the author…
The British and peace in Northern Ireland
Perhaps history, like revenge, is best when served cold; and while Thucydides would surely not agree, eyebrows are sometimes raised at the notion of such a thing as ‘contemporary history’. This collection of essays and interviews shows its usefulness, and should be snapped up by students of the peace process in Northern Ireland. Graham Spencer is to be congratulated on assembling the reflections of 14 retired senior officials on the British side …
Terrorism and the right to resist
Christopher Finlay is reader in political theory at the University of Birmingham. Before that, he taught at those rival establishments in Dublin, Trinity College and University College, which may account for his generosity in examining views with which it turns out he has little sympathy. He quotes for instance the armchair revolutionary Slavoj Žižek's ‘provocative’ challenge to those who believe in ‘equality, human rights and freedoms’ to ‘gathe…
Justice across boundaries
Justice across boundaries: whose obligations? By Onora O'Neill. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2016. 238pp. £60.00. ISBN 978 1 10711 630 6. Available as e-book. Justice at a distance: extending freedom globally. By Loren E. Lomasky and Fernando R. Tesón. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2016. 277pp. £65.00. ISBN 978 1 10711 586 6. Available as e-book. It is no coincidence that two books with remarkably similar titles should appear w…
Humanitarian intervention and legitimacy wars
Journal Article Humanitarian intervention and legitimacy wars: seeking peace and justice in the 21st century. By Richard Falk Get access Humanitarian intervention and legitimacy wars: seeking peace and justice in the 21st century. By Richard Falk. Abingdon: Routledge. 2015. 216pp. Index. £80.00. ISBN 978 0 41581 517 8. Available as e-book. David Bentley David Bentley Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Interna…
Rule of law in war
Journal Article Rule of law in war: international law and United States counterinsurgency in Iraq and Afghanistan. By Travers McLeod Get access Rule of law in war: international law and United States counterinsurgency in Iraq and Afghanistan. By Travers McLeod. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2015. 286pp. £55.00. ISBN 978 0 19871 639 6. Available as e-book. David Bentley David Bentley Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Goo…
Manciati siti ? Les constructions moyennes avec les participes résultatifs-statifs en italien et dans les variétés italo-romanes méridionales
Cette étude examine le problème des participes employés comme épithètes ou prédicats pour exprimer les états résultatifs (par ex. invecchiata 'vieillie'). Partant de l'hypothèse de La Fauci (1988) selon laquelle de tels participes seraient caractérisés par la syntaxe moyenne, on discute d'une sous-classe de participes qui, à première vue, semblerait infirmer cette hypothèse (par ex. manciata 'ayant déjà mangé', litt. 'mangée'). Sur des preuves it…
Subject canonicality and definiteness effects in Romance there -sentences
Evidence from main and lesser-known Romance languages indicates that the morphosyntactic properties of existential pivots correlate with semantic and pragmatic properties of noun phrases that count toward subjecthood to different degrees crosslinguistically. While fully supporting Beaver and colleagues' (2005) theory of the definiteness effects, the findings of this research also suggest that the effects cannot be fully explained in a nonconstruc…
Rebel law
After practising as a barrister, Dr Ledwidge served as an adviser to the British government and other official bodies in various conflict zones. His conclusions from this experience were well described by the title of his previous book, Losing small wars (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2011). Rebel law addresses ‘lawfare’, a special case of Ledwidge's general thesis that counter-insurgency campaigns fail through, among other things, ignora…
English Criminal Justice in the Nineteenth Century
Auxiliary selection and the semantics of unaccusativity
The morality of security
The morality of security: a theory of just securitization The morality of security: a theory of just securitization. By Rita Floyd. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2019. 239pp. £31.00. Isbn978 1 10849 389 5. Available as e-book. David Bentley David Bentley Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 96, Issue 3, May 2020, Pages 819–821, https://doi.org/10.1093/ia/iiaa082 Published:…
Ne -cliticisation and split intransitivity
I consider a number of constructions with ne -cliticisation, which at first sight would seem to be problematic vis-à-vis the hypothesis that the Italian partitive clitic ne is a diagnostic of unaccusativity. Structures with ne -cliticisation can receive an existential interpretation in sentence focus. I argue that, in the putatively non-canonical domains, ne realises the argument of a stage-level existential predicate (see Carlson 1977; Diesing 1…
Manciati siti ? Les constructions moyennes avec les participes résultatifs-statifs en italien et dans les variétés italo-romanes méridionales
Cette étude examine le problème des participes employés comme épithètes ou prédicats pour exprimer les états résultatifs (par ex. invecchiata 'vieillie'). Partant de l'hypothèse de La Fauci (1988) selon laquelle de tels participes seraient caractérisés par la syntaxe moyenne, on discute d'une sous-classe de participes qui, à première vue, semblerait infirmer cette hypothèse (par ex. manciata 'ayant déjà mangé', litt. 'mangée'). Sur des preuves it…
Subject canonicality and definiteness effects in Romance there -sentences
Evidence from main and lesser-known Romance languages indicates that the morphosyntactic properties of existential pivots correlate with semantic and pragmatic properties of noun phrases that count toward subjecthood to different degrees crosslinguistically. While fully supporting Beaver and colleagues' (2005) theory of the definiteness effects, the findings of this research also suggest that the effects cannot be fully explained in a nonconstruc…
Internally caused change as change by inner predisposition
This article investigates the morphosyntax of verbs of internally caused scalar change and the main facets of their meaning. Availing ourselves of primary evidence from Italian, French, and Spanish corpora, we argue that the verbs under scrutiny divide into three subclasses whose common denominator is that they encode ‘change by inner predisposition’ or change that is possible because of inherent propensities of specific entities. We understand i…
Dogs as an Adjunct to Therapy
Approximately 17,000 new cases of spinal cord injury (SCI) are reported annually in the United States. Rehabilitation from SCI involves substantial mental, emotional, and physical challenges. Using a randomized controlled trial design, we assessed the efficacy of animal-assisted therapy (AAT) as an aid in rehabilitation following a SCI. We hypothesized that patients with SCI undergoing rehabilitation occupational therapy with AAT would demonstrat…
Grammaticalization of subject agreement on evidence from Italo-Romance
In this paper we consider the grammaticalization of subject agreement adducing first-hand synchronic evidence from presentational VS constructions in Italo-Romance dialects. While the existing literature has placed emphasis on the pragmatic properties of the controller, we explore its semantic properties. We argue that variation in subject agreement can only be fully captured with reference to an independently established semantic scale of subjec…
Iran's nuclear program and international law
After decades of confrontation with the West over its nuclear activities, in July 2015 Iran and the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council, plus Germany and the European Union, concluded the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) to resolve the problem. The JCPOA, which is not a legally binding treaty, ‘envisions’ that in future Iran's activities ‘will be exclusively peaceful’, and in return provides for the gradual lif…
Language and dialect in modern Sicily
With the above observation, Ruffino refers to the fact that the linguistic situation of Sicily has always raised and still causes the interest of many scholars. The complexity of the matter, however, results in the need for further research. In particular, a number of fairly recent socio-cultural and economic changes have affected the status and the relationship of the Sicilian languages and varieties thus resulting in variation and change.2 This…
Historical Linguistics 1995
This volume contains papers on general issues of language change, as well as specific studies of non-Germanic languages, including Romance, Slavonic, Japanese, Australian languages, and early Indo-European. A second volume, edited by Richard M. Hogg and Linda van Bergen, contains papers on Germanic.
English Criminal Justice in the Nineteenth Century
Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome
The human genome holds an extraordinary trove of information about human development, physiology, medicine and evolution. Here we report the results of an international collaboration to produce and make freely available a draft sequence of the human genome. We also present an initial analysis of the data, describing some of the insights that can be gleaned from the sequence.
Etudes Romanes 42 Linguistica Testuale Comparativa
The International HapMap Project
The goal of the International HapMap Project is to determine the common patterns of DNA sequence variation in the human genome and to make this information freely available in the public domain. An international consortium is developing a map of these patterns across the genome by determining the genotypes of one million or more sequence variants, their frequencies and the degree of association between them, in DNA samples from populations with a…
Ne -cliticisation and split intransitivity
I consider a number of constructions with ne -cliticisation, which at first sight would seem to be problematic vis-à-vis the hypothesis that the Italian partitive clitic ne is a diagnostic of unaccusativity. Structures with ne -cliticisation can receive an existential interpretation in sentence focus. I argue that, in the putatively non-canonical domains, ne realises the argument of a stage-level existential predicate (see Carlson 1977; Diesing 1…
Auxiliary selection and the semantics of unaccusativity
Subject canonicality and definiteness effects in Romance there -sentences
Evidence from main and lesser-known Romance languages indicates that the morphosyntactic properties of existential pivots correlate with semantic and pragmatic properties of noun phrases that count toward subjecthood to different degrees crosslinguistically. While fully supporting Beaver and colleagues' (2005) theory of the definiteness effects, the findings of this research also suggest that the effects cannot be fully explained in a nonconstruc…
Manciati siti ? Les constructions moyennes avec les participes résultatifs-statifs en italien et dans les variétés italo-romanes méridionales
Cette étude examine le problème des participes employés comme épithètes ou prédicats pour exprimer les états résultatifs (par ex. invecchiata 'vieillie'). Partant de l'hypothèse de La Fauci (1988) selon laquelle de tels participes seraient caractérisés par la syntaxe moyenne, on discute d'une sous-classe de participes qui, à première vue, semblerait infirmer cette hypothèse (par ex. manciata 'ayant déjà mangé', litt. 'mangée'). Sur des preuves it…
Humanitarian intervention and legitimacy wars
Journal Article Humanitarian intervention and legitimacy wars: seeking peace and justice in the 21st century. By Richard Falk Get access Humanitarian intervention and legitimacy wars: seeking peace and justice in the 21st century. By Richard Falk. Abingdon: Routledge. 2015. 216pp. Index. £80.00. ISBN 978 0 41581 517 8. Available as e-book. David Bentley David Bentley Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Interna…
Rule of law in war
Journal Article Rule of law in war: international law and United States counterinsurgency in Iraq and Afghanistan. By Travers McLeod Get access Rule of law in war: international law and United States counterinsurgency in Iraq and Afghanistan. By Travers McLeod. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2015. 286pp. £55.00. ISBN 978 0 19871 639 6. Available as e-book. David Bentley David Bentley Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Goo…
The British and peace in Northern Ireland
Perhaps history, like revenge, is best when served cold; and while Thucydides would surely not agree, eyebrows are sometimes raised at the notion of such a thing as ‘contemporary history’. This collection of essays and interviews shows its usefulness, and should be snapped up by students of the peace process in Northern Ireland. Graham Spencer is to be congratulated on assembling the reflections of 14 retired senior officials on the British side …
Terrorism and the right to resist
Christopher Finlay is reader in political theory at the University of Birmingham. Before that, he taught at those rival establishments in Dublin, Trinity College and University College, which may account for his generosity in examining views with which it turns out he has little sympathy. He quotes for instance the armchair revolutionary Slavoj Žižek's ‘provocative’ challenge to those who believe in ‘equality, human rights and freedoms’ to ‘gathe…
Justice across boundaries
Justice across boundaries: whose obligations? By Onora O'Neill. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2016. 238pp. £60.00. ISBN 978 1 10711 630 6. Available as e-book. Justice at a distance: extending freedom globally. By Loren E. Lomasky and Fernando R. Tesón. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2016. 277pp. £65.00. ISBN 978 1 10711 586 6. Available as e-book. It is no coincidence that two books with remarkably similar titles should appear w…
Journalism in an age of terror
The British Prime Minister Theresa May explained last November, when the UK's Investigatory Powers Act 2016 became law, that ‘we do not comment publicly on the methods or capabilities available to the security and intelligence agencies’ (themselves a part of what has come to be known as ‘the secret state’). The Guardian newspaper spluttered: ‘“Extreme surveillance” becomes UK law with barely a whimper’. The following month the head of the UK's Se…
On fantasy island
The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary gives as one meaning of fantasy: ‘A supposition resting on no solid grounds’, adding ‘(Now emphatically contemptuous)’. Conor Gearty, Professor of Human Rights Law at the London School of Economics, had a stroke of luck: Britain voted to leave the European Union (Brexit) on 23 June 2016. In a lurid preface written the following month, he was thus able to link the victorious Brexiteers with this book's target,…
Iran's nuclear program and international law
After decades of confrontation with the West over its nuclear activities, in July 2015 Iran and the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council, plus Germany and the European Union, concluded the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) to resolve the problem. The JCPOA, which is not a legally binding treaty, ‘envisions’ that in future Iran's activities ‘will be exclusively peaceful’, and in return provides for the gradual lif…
International law and new wars
Christine Chinkin is Emerita Professor of International Law and Director of the Centre for Women, Peace and Security, and Mary Kaldor is Professor of Global Governance and Director of the Civil Society and Human Security Research Unit, at the London School of Economics. International law and new wars brings together themes they have pursued over many years. Despite its ‘long gestation’ during which ‘the world has changed dramatically’, the author…
Rebel law
After practising as a barrister, Dr Ledwidge served as an adviser to the British government and other official bodies in various conflict zones. His conclusions from this experience were well described by the title of his previous book, Losing small wars (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2011). Rebel law addresses ‘lawfare’, a special case of Ledwidge's general thesis that counter-insurgency campaigns fail through, among other things, ignora…
The law of war
This is not an easy book to review. It is a line-by-line commentary on a separate work. The old reviewer's standby—that it deserves a place on the shelves of every library—comes to mind. As its authorship would lead one to expect, it is a substantial and careful study. Like William H. Boothby's The law of targeting (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012; reviewed in International Affairs 89: 4, July 2013), it states its ‘target audience’, essenti…
Corruption and misuse of public office
Grammaticalization of subject agreement on evidence from Italo-Romance
In this paper we consider the grammaticalization of subject agreement adducing first-hand synchronic evidence from presentational VS constructions in Italo-Romance dialects. While the existing literature has placed emphasis on the pragmatic properties of the controller, we explore its semantic properties. We argue that variation in subject agreement can only be fully captured with reference to an independently established semantic scale of subjec…
Law's wars
Richard Abel is an eminent scholar of the sociology of law, who grew up during South Africa's apartheid regime (and it shows). In Law's wars and Law's trials readers are offered a detailed examination of the response of American institutions to the ‘war on terror’ (dutifully awarded scare quote marks). To an outsider, the exercise is fascinating—and alarming. At its centre is American law, though Abel does not confine himself to the language of t…
The trial of the Kaiser
We live in an age of anniversaries. The trial of the Kaiser appeared in the centenary year of the armistice that ended the First World War—and just 80 years after Neville Chamberlain returned from Munich in September 1938, announcing peace in our time. (Kristallnacht occurred a couple of months after Munich. In the following year Germany invaded Poland.) Despite German acceptance of article 227 of the 1919 Treaty of Versailles, providing for Kais…
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