The linguistics of the last century was dominated by F. de Saussure’s grandiose program of synchronic linguistics, the methodological level of which was substantially elevated by the Chomskyan revolution. However, the more recent development has confirmed the necessity to work with basic ingredients of the European structuralist approach, based on syntactic dependency, so that the concept of constituent seems to lose its prominent position.
Necessary and sufficient conditions are obtained for oscillation of all bounded solutions of (∗) [y(t) − y(t − τ )](n) + Q(t)G(y(t − σ)) = 0, t ≥ 0, where n ≥ 3 is odd. Sufficient conditions are obtained for all solutions of (∗) to oscillate. Further, sufficient conditions are given for all solutions of the forced equation associated with (∗) to oscillate or tend to zero as t → ∞. In this case, there is no restriction on n.
The article focuses on the process of documenting handicrafts in the local communities of rural areas through the use of buildings formerly housing a blueprint workshop in the village of Hranovnica. the first section focuses on the specific attributes of handicraft buildings and compares individual buildings within an urban context (where crafts represented a key means of providing a livelihood) with those in rural areas (where, in addition to their craft, local handicraftsmen were also concerned with their primary activity, i.e. farming). The aforementioned blueprint workshop in Hranovnica is a good example of the architectural aspects of these buildings, which simultaneously document farming and handicrafts, and as we show, also reveal renovations due to economic and
socio-cultural development. The article further contains arguments with regard to the possible use of such buildings as so-called ‘technical landmarks’ to document the history and development of local handicrafts from the point of view of present-day applied ethnology (especially ethnographic museology).