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On the Confusion of the Terms dualis and communis in Cledonius
Get PDFThis article attempts to provide an interpretation of a passage on the noun number written by
the 5th-century grammarian Cledonius who composed a lemmatised commentary on Donatus’
Ars minor and Ars maior. The passage discussed here is a part of the explanation regarding
the noun categories in Ars minor: Numerus, qui unum et plures demonstrat: et communis est
numerus, qui et dualis dicitur apud Graecos, ut species facies res. (GL V 10. 19–20). Cledonius’
text confuses two terms dualis and communis, which normally signify different linguistic phenomena.
Tim Denecker, whose article covers the history of the term dualis in Latin grammatical
treatises, argues that dualis in this passage is indicating a pair and is equated to communis.
The aim of the present work is to explain why these two terms have been confused. When
comparing Greek and Latin, the Roman grammarians Charisius, Diomedes, Priscian, and
Macrobius highlighted the absence of the dual number from Latin, whereas Donatus added it
to the singular and plural exemplifying it with two nomina — duo and ambo. Having analysed
all of Cledonius’ passages on dualis and communis and compared them with the original text
of Donatus, one may notice that Cledonius did not make comments on Donatus’ observations
concerning the dual number of duo and ambo. In the author’s view, the grammarian may have
opined that the Latin language had no dual number at all, so that in his commentary Latin
communis is juxtaposed to Greek dualis and both are opposed to singular and plural
Donatus’ Ars grammatica and educational practices of Late Antiquity: Sergius — Cledonius — Pompeius
No full textThe article is based on the analysis of Donatus’ Ars grammatica and the texts of his closest commentators — Sergius (sometimes called as Ps.-Cassiodorus), Cledonius and Pompeus. The purpose of this paper is to reconstruct the beginnings of a new educational pro-cess (5th century), rooted in Western European grammatical science in the early Middle Ages. In particular, the content of Sergius’ grammatical fragments, named De littera, de syllaba, de pedibus, de accentibus, de distinctione [“ On the letter, syllable, verse feet, ac-cents and position”], Cledonius’ Ars and Ars secunda and Pompey’s Commentum artis Donati of Pompey is under consideration. The problem of authorship of grammatical texts Explanationum in Artem Donati and Commentarium de oratione et de octo partibus orationis [“Commentary on speech and eight parts of speech”], which were circulated under different names — Sergius, Servius, Cassiodorus and Ps.-Cassiodorus — is discussed. Through a comparative analy-sis, the similarities and differences between the texts which are under consideration with respect to Donatus’ Ars grammatica are revealed. It is shown how the grammar of Late Antique in the 5th century gradually became less strict (in comparison with its authoritative model), how it was adapted to the needs of the new time. It is concluded that, on the one hand, the methods chosen by Sergius (Ps.-Cassiodorus), Cledonius and Pompey for the grammatical description and explana-tion of parts of the speech of Donatus’ Ars grammatica were differed sharply from the methods of presentation by Donatus himself. But, on the other hand, Donatus’ commentators could not manage to create any new grammar in the 5th century
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe 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
Get PDF“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
Get PDFWe 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
Get PDFWe 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
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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