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The aim of this research is to determine the effects of a ten-week modern and recreational dance exercise program and trunk and leg muscle strengthening exercises on the coordination and explosive power of student-age female dancers. The total number of participants was 54, of which 27 made up the experimental group who participated in an experimental exercise program and 27 the control group. The experimental group performed Hip Hop and Dancehall dances and trunk and leg muscle strengthening exercises 3 times a week for 90 min each. The control group had no additional forms of exercise other than regular daily activities. The coordination of the participants was evaluated on the basis of six tests (Side Steps, 20 Steps forward Twirling a Baton, Skipping the Horizontal Jump Rope, Turning in 6 squares, Hand-Foot Drumming and Agility test with a Baton) and two tests for determining explosive power parameters (the squat jump and countermovement jump). Results showed statistical significance between the groups in 5 variables of coordination at the multivariate and univariate level (p<.05, p<.01), and in both variables of explosive power at the univariate level (p<.05). A large and intermediate effect size of the experimental program was determined for 5 variables of coordination, and intermediate effect size for both variables of explosive power. The results of this study showed that a ten-week exercise program for recreational and modern dance and exercises for strengthening the muscles of the torso and legs have a positive effect on the changes in the parameters of coordination and explosive power in student-age female dancers.

After a wealth of studies on motion event descriptions, it seems hard to say something new: the Verb-framed/Satellite-framed typology proposed by Talmy has spawned a long debate. Among other things, previous work has shown within-type variation for one of the two language types defined by Talmy, namely Verb-framed languages. In this paper, we address this debate, showing within-type variation for the other type, Satellite-framed languages, with new data elicited from native speakers of Serbian. In order to do so, we compare it with five other languages, from three Indo-European language families (Romance, Germanic and Slavic). Our data show that Serbian is a particularly interesting case, since it is structurally Satellite-framed, but behaves like Verb-framed languages in that speakers do not always express manner and path jointly (i.e. manner in the verb and path in the satellite), as expected on the basis of Talmy’s typology. The main result of our paper is thus that there is a good deal of within-type variation for both language types identified by Talmy.

Comparaison du sens spatial des prépositions à travers en français et kroz en serbe

« Les noms d'idéalités et la modalité : marquage d'une opposition » Résumé :Prise au sens originel du terme, comme évaluation d'un objet selon les catégories du vrai/faux, du beau/laid ou du bon/mauvais, la notion de modalité est appliquée ici à la classe nominale. Nous utilisons en effet la modalité comme un des critères de sous-classification d'un type particulier de noms, que nous appelons à la suite de Husserl « noms d'idéalités » (NId) (ex. sonate, poème, gravure, théorème Mots-clés : noms, modalité, idéalité, complémentation propositionnelle Ideality nouns and modalityIn this paper, we apply the category of modality to the class of nouns. Understood in its original sense, i.e. as an evaluation of objects in terms of true/false, beautiful/ugly or good/bad, modality is used here as one of a series of criteria for classifying a particular kind of nouns, which we call "ideality nouns" (IdN) following Husserl (e.g. sonata, poem, engraving, theorem). Such nouns refer to those objects that are endowed with spiritual content supposed to be interpreted by humans. The three modal oppositions mentioned above, combined with other linguistic parameters, allow us both to well establish the distinction between IdNs denoting "free idealities" (e.g. theorem, number, triangle) and IdNs denoting "bound idealities " (e.g. symphony, novel, painting), and to refine the classification of the class itself. We show that the alethic modality (true/false) is closely related to free logic (e.g. hypothesis) or discursive (e.g. sentence) IdNs, both of which allow propositional complementation (prop. comp.). The esthetic modality (beautiful/ugly) is closely associated with bound IdNs, which refer to artistic creations and disallow prop. comp. (e.g. sonata). Finally, the ethic modality (good/bad) is in tight correlation with bound IdNs depending on the performative use of language and accepting prop. comp. (e.g. promise).