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Diachronic Development in Isolation: The Loss of V2 Phenomena in Cimbrian
Full text linkThis paper deals with the syntactic development of Cimbrian, a German dialect, which was spoken for centuries in some enclaves in northern Italy. In particular, we argue that the ‘dismantlement’ of the V2 phenomenon is connected with a change concerning the ‘nature’ of specific word order patterns: from ‘allowed’ V2 exceptions to ‘unmarked’ and frequent constructions, i.e., from hanging topic (freies Thema) in WH clause to ‘new’ left dislocation modalities, which finally bring to generalized V3 in the declarative clause
Formen der “Herausstellung“ und Verlust der V2-Restriktion in der Geschichte der zimbrischen Sprache
Full text linkDas Zimbrische, eine heute nur noch im kleinen trentinischen Bergdorf Lusérn, einst jedoch in einem viel größeren Gebiet gesprochene germanische Varietät, stellt ein linguistisch äußerst interessantes Forschungsobjekt dar. Zum einen verfügt sie über alte Sprachdenkmäler, die es ermöglichen, diachro-nische Untersuchungen über die syntaktische Entwicklung durchzuführen. Zum anderen ist die zimbri-sche Syntax im engen Kontakt mit den umliegenden norditalienischen Dialekten evolviert, so dass sie sich von der ursprünglichen germanischen sprich deutschen Basis entfernt hat. Sie hat allerdings nicht die romanische Syntax tout court übernommen, sondern nur in dem Maßen, in dem es die ursprüngli-che germanische Syntax zulassen konnte. So bietet die Erforschung dieser Varietät die Möglichkeit, die Grundstrukturen sowohl des Germanischen als auch des Romanischen zu untersuchen. Vorliegender Beitrag rekonstruiert den allmählichen Verlust der V2-Restriktion im Zimbrischen durch die diachro-nische Veränderung seiner Herausstellungsstrategie
The Relevance of Lesser-Used Languages for Theoretical Linguistics: The Case of Cimbrian and the Support of the TITUS Corpus
No full textThe syntax of subordination in Cimbrian and the rationale behind language contact
No full textThe aim of this contribution is twofold: (i) providing a detailed description of subordination in Cimbrian and (ii) discussing the concept of Language contact in terms of feature transfer. As has been recently pointed out, Cimbrian
declarative and relative clauses display a unique pattern among the German dialects w.r.t. embedding. In fact, different complementizers trigger different syntax as regards the position of the finite verb. In our contribution, we extend the analysis to adverbial clauses for the first time and also investigate the double pattern of embedding in indirect wh-questions. Our data suggest that contact-induced syntactic change can be explained in terms of transfer of single abstract features
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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