Cynthia Lloyd

Youth Migration and Transitions to Adulthood in Developing Countries THE ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social ScienceJuly 2013, Volume 648 Editors: Fatima Juarez, Thomas LeGrand, Cynthia Lloyd, Susheela Singh and V ronique HertrichCurrently, it is estimated that there are 1.1 billion young people aged 15-24 in the developing world, accounting for nearly one-fifth (18.6 percent) of the total population. During this time of life, young people experience enormous changes due to physical maturation, which is accompanied by cognitive, social/emotional, and interpersonal changes. It is a period when the influence of par-ents and families gradually diminishes and the influence of external factors, such as peers; the media; the educational environment; and, more generally, the eco-nomic, social, and cultural environments in which they live, are increasingly prominent.The articles in this volume of The ANNALS can be classified by three themes: migration in the context of transitions to adulthood, including schooling, employment, and family formation; consequences of migration for health, reproductive outcomes, and childbear-ing; and migration strategies and consequences. All the articles presented here are innovative in their approach, and their findings advance our understand-ing of youths' migration and transitions to adulthood in developing countries. These studies and their findings clearly attest to the enormous diversity of situations of youth migration, transitions to adulthood, and the con-texts in which they occur across developing countries. For some adolescents and young adults, migration brings with it very serious risks and often negative consequences, while for others it opens horizons and is associated with expanding opportunities in both the social and economic spheres.Paperback: $35.00, Sale Price $28.00, ISBN: 9781483333182Hardcover: $48.00, Sale Price $38.40, ISBN: 9781483333175

Youth Migration and Transitions to Adulthood in Developing Countries THE ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social ScienceJuly 2013, Volume 648 Editors: Fatima Juarez, Thomas LeGrand, Cynthia Lloyd, Susheela Singh and V ronique HertrichCurrently, it is estimated that there are 1.1 billion young people aged 15-24 in the developing world, accounting for nearly one-fifth (18.6 percent) of the total population. During this time of life, young people experience enormous changes due to physical maturation, which is accompanied by cognitive, social/emotional, and interpersonal changes. It is a period when the influence of par-ents and families gradually diminishes and the influence of external factors, such as peers; the media; the educational environment; and, more generally, the eco-nomic, social, and cultural environments in which they live, are increasingly prominent.The articles in this volume of The ANNALS can be classified by three themes: migration in the context of transitions to adulthood, including schooling, employment, and family formation; consequences of migration for health, reproductive outcomes, and childbear-ing; and migration strategies and consequences. All the articles presented here are innovative in their approach, and their findings advance our understand-ing of youths' migration and transitions to adulthood in developing countries. These studies and their findings clearly attest to the enormous diversity of situations of youth migration, transitions to adulthood, and the con-texts in which they occur across developing countries. For some adolescents and young adults, migration brings with it very serious risks and often negative consequences, while for others it opens horizons and is associated with expanding opportunities in both the social and economic spheres.Paperback: $35.00, Sale Price $28.00, ISBN: 9781483333182Hardcover: $48.00, Sale Price $38.40, ISBN: 9781483333175

This book is about the integration into English of the five nominal suffixes -ment, -ance, -ation, -age and -al, which entered Middle English via borrowings from French, and which now form abstract nouns by attaching themselves to various base categories, as in cord/cordage or adjust/adjustment. The possibility is considered that each suffix might individually affect the general semantic profile of nouns which it forms. A sample of first attributions from the Middle English Dictionary is analysed for each suffix, in order to examine biases in suffixes towards certain semantic areas. It is argued that such biases exist both in real-world semantics, such as the choice of bases with moral or practical meanings, and in distinct aspects of the shared core meaning of action or collectivity expressed by the derived deverbal or denominal nouns. The results for the ME database are then compared with the use of words in the same suffixes across a selection of works from Shakespeare. In this way it can be shown how such tendencies may persist or change over time.