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Chapter 12 Icelandic valency classes
(2015)
The present chapter gives an overview of valency classes in Icelandic and the most common, noticeable, or productive alternations found in the language. The over-view is based on my own native-speaker knowledge of the ...
Chapter Languages with longer words have more lexical change
(2013)
The findings to be presented in this paper were not anticipated, but came about as an unexpected result of looking at how the application of a version of the Levenshtein distance to word lists compares with cognate counting. ...
Chapter 8.1 Reaction-Diffusion Models of Pattern Formation in Developmental Biology
(2012)
In this paper we present mathematical approaches to understand a symmetry break and formation of spatially heterogenous structures during development. We focus on the models given by reaction-diffusion equations and approach ...
Chapter 17 Timbre Networks
(2013)
Over the following pages, I will propose and present a method that integrates the sound realm of computer music into the domain of human performance, striving to find a balance between these two worlds by focusing on the ...
Chapter Restricted integer partition functions
(2014)
Additive; multiplicative and probabilistic number theory; Sequences and sets; Extremal and classical combinatorics; Ramsey theory; Hypergraphs
Chapter 10 Avanços nas humanidades digitais
(2016)
This handbook provides a general yet detailed account of the current research in Portuguese linguistics by combining overview chapters and in-depth analyses of selected topics. It integrates diachronic and synchronic, ...
Chapter Lost and found in translation
(2015)
This book examines the ways that texts from the humanities have fostered particular approaches to knowledge by constructing different versions of a ‘scientific ethos’. The studies contained in this volume reveal how and ...
Chapter Punktzeit als (Ver-)Störung
(2013)
This collected volume aims to generate a concise theoretical presentation of the "perturbation principle" in the humanities and the natural sciences. Incorporating findings from natural scientific research, the contributors ...
Chapter 52 Experimental methods in co-speech gesture research
(2013)
This chapter provides an introductory overview of some of the basic experimental paradigms traditionally employed in the field of gesture studies to investigate both comprehension and production in adult and child populations. ...
Chapter 5 Linguistic areas, bottom-up or top-down?
(2014)
In this paper we will take data from four areas of grammatical structure: argument marking (coded by Birchall), subordination (coded by Van Gijn), the noun phrase (coded by Krasnoukhova), and tame marking (tense/aspect/m ...
Chapter Dependency-sensitive typological distance
(2013)
In this paper, we will develop two kinds of dependency-sensitive distance metrics. The first captures the idea that if it can be shown that one feature can be (partly) predicted by another, then the predictable feature ...
Chapter Predicting language-learning difficulty
(2013)
The difficulty people have in learning a foreign language strongly depends on how different this language is from their native tongue (Kellerman 1979). Although this statement seems uncontroversial in the general form as ...
Chapter Towards automated language classification
(2013)
In this paper, we discuss advantages of clustering approaches to automated language classification, describe distance measures used for this purpose, and present results of several proof-of-concept experiments. We advocate ...
Chapter Disentangling geography from genealogy
(2013)
In this paper I will not seek to settle this question for individual cases of shared characteristics between two specific languages (e.g. why do French and German have no distance contrast in demonstratives?; see Diessel ...
Chapter Black box approaches to genealogical classification and their shortcomings
(2013)
In the past 20 years, the application of quantitative methods in historical linguistics has received a lot of attention. Traditional historical linguistics relies on the comparative method in order to determine the ...
Chapter Languages of the Middle Andes in areal-typological perspective
(2012)
Among the indigenous languages of the Andean region of Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, northern Chile and northern Argentina, Quechuan and Aymaran have traditionally occupied a dominant position. Both Quechuan and Aymaran are ...
Chapter 87 Scalar implicature as a grammatical phenomenon
(2012)
This article develops various arguments for the view that scalar implicatures should be de-rived within grammar and not by a theory of language use (pragmatics). We focus primarily on arguments that scalar implicatures can ...
Chapter Final Phases of Medieval Hebraism
(2010)
"The relationship between Jews and Christians and between Judaism and Christianity during the 13th and 14th century is a matter of concrete and contingent historical circumstances; and its ideological elements ...
Chapter 44 A “Composite Utterances” approach to meaning 45. Towards a grammar of gestures
(2013)
This chapter argues for a composite utterances approach to research on body, language, and communication. It argues that to understand meaning we need to begin with the utterance or speech act as the unit of analysis. From ...
Chapter All typologies leak
(2009)
In his (1921) book, Language, Sapir made the famous observation, “All grammars leak” (38). By this he meant that within the systematic paradigms, rules and routinized patterns of any grammar, we always find a few irregularities ...
Chapter Higher order exceptionality in inflectional morphology
(2011)
We start from the notion of ‘canonical’ inflection, and we adopt an inferential-realizational approach. We assume that we have already established the features and their values for a given system (while acknowledging that ...
Chapter 2 Phonetics
(2012)
Sign and spoken languages differ primarily in their perceptual channel, vision vs. audition. This ‘modality difference’ has an effect on the structure of sign languages through-out the grammar, as is discussed in other ...
Chapter 62 Doing fieldwork on the body, language, and communication.
(2013)
This chapter gives a brief and selective overview of how to approach research on bodilyand linguistic aspects of communication by doing fieldwork. Here I do not address tech-nological issues such as specific choices of ...
Chapter Quantitative explorations of the worldwide distribution of rare characteristics, or
(2011)
In this article, the distribution of rare features among the world’s languages is investigated based on the data from the World Atlas of Language Structures (Haspelmath et al. 2005). A Rarity Index for a language is defined, ...
Chapter ‘Tested’ Remedies in Mesopotamian Medical Texts
(2015)
This contribution investigates the phraseology of descriptions of efficacy (efficacy phrases) in Mesopotamian medical texts, concentrating on the qualification latku ‘tested, tried, proven’, which implies that knowledge ...
Chapter Ki issues in Turkish
(2014)
De Vries’ (2006 et seq.) addition of ‘par-Merge’ to the extant Merger operations utilized by the narrow syntax provides a means by which to model parataxis and yet maintain that paratactic constituents (i.e. parentheticals) ...
Chapter Depersonalized Case Histories in the Babylonian Therapeutic Compendia
(2015)
Standard histories of medicine identify Hippocratic texts such as Epidemics as the earliest medical case histories in human history. In contrast to the Hippocratic case histories, it is often stated that Babylonian medicine ...
Chapter Mainland Southeast Asian languages: State of the art and new directions.
(2015)
Mainland Southeast Asia (hereafter: MSEA) can be broadly defined as the area occupied by present day Cambodia, Laos, Peninsular Malaysia, Thailand, Myanmar, and Vietnam, along with areas of China south of the Yangtze River. ...
Chapter Labeling (Romance) causatives
(2017)
Classical analyses of Romance causatives of the Italian/French type illustrated in examples like (2) and (3) below for Italian, proposed that an overt process of VP-preposing occurs in the derivation of these structures ...
Chapter Incomplete parenthesis
(2014)
While customarily considered ‘peripheral’ linguistic phenomena, both parenthesis and ellipsis raise interesting and far-reaching theoretical questions. It is worth bearing in mind that research in theoretical linguistics ...
Chapter Some Remarks on Babylonian Pharmacology
(2017)
This volume brings together contributions covering different periods of the history of ancient pharmacology and medical writing, from Greek, Byzantine, and Syriac medicine to the Rabbinic-Talmudic medical discourses. It ...
Chapter Textgemeinschaften und die Erfindung von Rivalität und Toleranz in der Kaiserzeit (2./3. Jh. n. Chr.)
(2016)
1,700 years ago, the Roman emperors Constantine and Licinius granted religious freedom – even and particularly for Christianity. The religious policy of Constantine is often associated with the modern ideal of tolerance. ...
Chapter Aufteilung von Erwerbs-, Haus- und Familienarbeit in Partnerschaften im Beziehungsverlauf
(2016)
In the light of the developments outlined here, the aim of this article is to present the division of employment, household and family work into partnerships in the course of relationships in a European comparison. For ...
Chapter Gog and Magog
(2016)
This volume addresses Jewish, Christian and Muslim future visions on the end of the world, focusing on the respective allies and antagonists for each religious society. Spanning late Antiquity to the early modern period, ...
Chapter On V2, gaps, and operators in comment and reporting parentheticals
(2015)
Parenthetical comment and reporting clauses exhibit various interesting properties, which are shown to be related. Three different word order pat-terns are attested in Dutch and German: apparent V1, V2 and V-final; the ...
Chapter There’s Always the Sun
(2016)
The present paper asks how Macrobius thinks his extensive allegories of statues of the gods and other elements of traditional religion are possible. He can be shown to espouse a Neoplatonic theory of images. This entails ...
Chapter „Von Aalschwanzspekulanten bis Abendrotlicht“
(2015)
This book examines the ways that texts from the humanities have fostered particular approaches to knowledge by constructing different versions of a ‘scientific ethos’. The studies contained in this volume reveal how and ...
Chapter 17 Motivation by formally analyzable terms in a typological perspective
(2016)
This article tackles a question raised by one of the founding figures of lexical typology, Stephen Ullmann: to what degree do languages differ in the extent to which they resort to morphologically analyzable lexical items? ...
Chapter 5 Ringwoodite
(2015)
The history of ringwoodite started in 1869 in a remote locality in the south-west of Queensland in Australia. Mr. Michael Hammond witnessed a meteorite shower close to the junction between Cooper and Kyabra Creeks (Lat. ...
Chapter Wittgenstein as a Commentator on the Psychology and Anthropology of Colour
(2014)
As is well known, Wittgenstein had a life-long interest in the philosophy of colour, from the Tractatus all the way to the last notebooks that were posthumously published as two books, Remarks on Colour and On Certainty. ...