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Uvodnik [v angleščini]
No full textThe winter issue of Volume 11 presents a selection of seven different research articles on Japanese, Tetun Dili, Sylheti Bangla, Pahari, and Saraiki language. The rise of the Covid-19 pandemic, of which continuation unfortunately still allows many to collect data for research, has prompted us to publish several other interesting studies. This compilation brings to the readers the following topics.
This issue opens with Saki AMANO’s paper “Polysemy of ‘Common Language’ and the Modern Japanese Nation: The Universalization of a ‘Standard Language’ to correct ‘Dialects’?”. The author examines the term futsūgo (common language) over two periods and explains the shift from the populace’s everyday commonplace language to a unified national language.
In the next paper “From Native-speaker Likeness to Self-representation in Language: Views from the Acquisition of Japanese Transitive and Intransitive Verbs”, ITO Hideaki considers the degree to which a language user’s own will is recognized in language education. The author demonstrates that the usage-centric acquisition process can create opportunities for language users to make expressive choices focused on what they wish to say.
The third article is Nastja PAHOR’s paper “Corpus analysis of the collocations of the transitive verbs owaru and oeru”, in which the author approaches the transitivity of Japanese verbs from the corpus perspective. Semantical analysis of collocations in combination with the morphological analysis of co-occurring verbs reveals some interesting findings.
After the first three papers that focus on Japanese, the fourth one brings some new insights into Tetun Dili. Andrei A. AVRAM in his paper “Contact-induced variation in Tetun Dili phonology” analyzes Portuguese influence on Tetun Dili phonology, and demonstrates that the intricacies of inter-speaker variation cannot be merely reduced to variation between more Portuguese-like phonology and a more Tetun-Dili-like one.
Arpita GOSWAMI’s paper “Marked Geminates as Evidence of Sonorants in Sylheti Bangla: An Optimality Account” analyzes the universal concept that sonorants are marked geminates in the gemination process of Sylheti Bangla, and proposes a hierarchy of the constraints for analyzing the gemination processes in SHB. Besides, the author illustrates some additional constraints found to be necessary.
The following article “Stop Voicing and F0 Perturbation in Pahari” presents the findings of Nazia RASHID, Abdul Qadir KHAN, Ayesha SOHAIL, and Bilal Ahmed ABBASI. The authors investigate the perturbation effect of the voicing of initial stops on the fundamental frequency of the following vowels in Pahari.
Last but not least, “Word Stress system of the Saraiki language” is an article by Firdos ATTA, who presents an Optimality-Theoretic analysis of Saraiki word stress. The author concludes that Saraiki has a trochaic stress system and falls in the category of quantity-sensitive languages. This paper also indicates further research work on word stress at the sentence level.
Editors and Editorial board wish the regular and new readers of the ALA journal a pleasant read full of inspiration, and a rise of new research ideas inspired by these papers
Predgovor (v angleščini)
No full textIn these strange days of a limited physical and social contact due to the worldwide pandemic we are especially grateful for the existence of the parallel virtual world, which goes beyond human shortcomings. Our work continued without any obstructions and we are pleased to announce the summer ALA issue of the year 2020. In it we offer six research articles that extend over a broad linguistic area and include languages of the far East Asia, namely Mandarin Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese.
The issue opens with the WU Jiayi’s article “Contextual Conditions and Constraints in Chinese Dangling Topics: Syntax-Discourse Interface Analysis”, in which the author revisits dangling topics in Mandarin Chinese from the semantic and syntactic view, and evolves their findings to the hypothesis concerning language typology.
The second article on Chinese is Tina ČOK’s “Lexical Aspect Classification for Unrelated Languages: A Case Study on Slovenian and Chinese Lexical Aspect”, in which the author analyzes Chinese and Slovenian verb aspect to show that deeper cognitive differences effect our perception of reality, and upon her findings proposes an upgraded general classification of verb types.
The following article entitled “The New Chinese Corpus of Literary Texts Litchi” by Mateja PETROVČIČ, Radovan GARABÍK, and Ľuboš GAJDOŠ presents a newly launched corpus of Chinese literary texts Litchi, and exemplifies the variety of its benefits.
Furthermore, Petra JAKLIN “The Many Meanings of the Japanese Causative:Widening the Pragmatic Take on the -(sa)seru Causative Sentence” is an article in which the author revisits the range of possible interpretations and meanings carried by Japanese causative sentences, and supports her conclusions with comparisons to English and Croatian structures.
HWANG Yoong Hee’s article “Normative Forms and Synthetic Structure of Japanese in the Incubation Period of L2: Subject to Sentence-final Forms in Longitudinal Discourse Data of Korean Returnee Sisters’ Japanese” focuses on L2 Japanese sentence-final forms and their change mechanism in case of Korean returnees.
Last but not least, “Examining the Part-of-speech Features in Assessing the Readability of Vietnamese Texts” is an article by An-Vinh LUONG, Diep NGUYEN, and Dien DINH that discusses the present state of research on text readability in Vietnamese and proposes an improved model on estimating readability of texts and consequently their classification.
Editors and Editorial board wish the regular and new readers of the ALA journal a pleasant read full of inspiration.
EditorsIn these strange days of a limited physical and social contact due to the worldwide pandemic we are especially grateful for the existence of the parallel virtual world, which goes beyond human shortcomings. Our work continued without any obstructions and we are pleased to announce the summer ALA issue of the year 2020. In it we offer six research articles that extend over a broad linguistic area and include languages of the far East Asia, namely Mandarin Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese.
The issue opens with the WU Jiayi’s article “Contextual Conditions and Constraints in Chinese Dangling Topics: Syntax-Discourse Interface Analysis”, in which the author revisits dangling topics in Mandarin Chinese from the semantic and syntactic view, and evolves their findings to the hypothesis concerning language typology.
The second article on Chinese is Tina ČOK’s “Lexical Aspect Classification for Unrelated Languages: A Case Study on Slovenian and Chinese Lexical Aspect”, in which the author analyzes Chinese and Slovenian verb aspect to show that deeper cognitive differences effect our perception of reality, and upon her findings proposes an upgraded general classification of verb types.
The following article entitled “The New Chinese Corpus of Literary Texts Litchi” by Mateja PETROVČIČ, Radovan GARABÍK, and Ľuboš GAJDOŠ presents a newly launched corpus of Chinese literary texts Litchi, and exemplifies the variety of its benefits.
Furthermore, Petra JAKLIN “The Many Meanings of the Japanese Causative:Widening the Pragmatic Take on the -(sa)seru Causative Sentence” is an article in which the author revisits the range of possible interpretations and meanings carried by Japanese causative sentences, and supports her conclusions with comparisons to English and Croatian structures.
HWANG Yoong Hee’s article “Normative Forms and Synthetic Structure of Japanese in the Incubation Period of L2: Subject to Sentence-final Forms in Longitudinal Discourse Data of Korean Returnee Sisters’ Japanese” focuses on L2 Japanese sentence-final forms and their change mechanism in case of Korean returnees.
Last but not least, “Examining the Part-of-speech Features in Assessing the Readability of Vietnamese Texts” is an article by An-Vinh LUONG, Diep NGUYEN, and Dien DINH that discusses the present state of research on text readability in Vietnamese and proposes an improved model on estimating readability of texts and consequently their classification.
Editors and Editorial board wish the regular and new readers of the ALA journal a pleasant read full of inspiration.
Editor
Academic Library Streaming Video Revisited
No full textPresentation made at ALA Annual Conference, Sunday, June 26, 201
Predgovor
No full textAny scientific discipline undoubtedly encounters different challenges in their development over time. However, with the rise of modern technologies, such challenges expanded to new dimensions.
In linguistics, corpus studies have already proven their advantages, and many researchers and other users enjoy the richness of different corpora, spreading enthusiasm and courage to treat linguistics interdisciplinarily. At the same time, minority languages and poorly studied languages are also gaining researchers\u27 attention. Modern technologies further motivated different translation tools, which globalize the world with an enormous speed and seems to dicrease the relevance of language study and foreign language learning. However, the needs for interest in languages remain high. Though perhaps in a different form.
This issue comprises the above ideas in five articles.
Mayuri L. DILIP and Rayesh KUMAR coauthored the article “Clitic or Agreement Restriction in Santali: A Typological Analysis”, in which they investigated the syntactic configuration of pronominal number marking in Santali, the third most-spoken Austroasiatic language, from syntactic, morphological and prosodic perspective.
The following article “Contextual factors and language: an analysis of order placements” was written by Andrej BEKEŠ. It tackles Japanese in a specific social context, namely written ordering requirements on a crowdsourcing website, and reports negative correlation between the level of added value of such requirements and the quality of linguistic expression, comparing it to the Grice’s maxims of conversation.
ITO Hideaki\u27s article “Orthoepic Competence Descriptors in Japanese Language Education: CEFR Levels B1 to C2” overviews the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) and the JF Standard for Japanese-Language Education to discuss the benefits of their merging. In particular, the author re-examines CEFR descriptors for levels B1 to C2 in a non-alphabetically transcribed Japanese, which have not yet been attempted, and combine them with the results for levels A1 and A2 to present descriptors for levels A1 to C2 in overall.
KIM Yu Young in his article “Development and Operation Results of Japanese Accent Perception Test Based On e-learning System” introduced the [AJ-phonetic Test] system, an online tool for practicing perception of Japanese word accent, presented its benefits through a longitudinal study on Korean learners of Japanese.
Finally, Miha PAVLOVIČ wrote an article entitled “Grammar Errors by Slovenian Learners of Japanese: Corpus Analysis of Writings on Beginner and Intermediate Levels”. In it he first presents how to construct such a corpus, and then presents his analysis of grammar errors that a collection of 182 written texts written by Japanese learners contained.
Editors and Editorial Board wish the regular and new readers of the ALA journal a pleasant read full of inspiration.
ALA editorial board(besedilo v angleščini)
Any scientific discipline undoubtedly encounters different challenges in their development over time. However, with the rise of modern technologies, such challenges expanded to new dimensions.
In linguistics, corpus studies have already proven their advantages, and many researchers and other users enjoy the richness of different corpora, spreading enthusiasm and courage to treat linguistics interdisciplinarily. At the same time, minority languages and poorly studied languages are also gaining researchers\u27 attention. Modern technologies further motivated different translation tools, which globalize the world with an enormous speed and seems to dicrease the relevance of language study and foreign language learning. However, the needs for interest in languages remain high. Though perhaps in a different form.
This issue comprises the above ideas in five articles.
Mayuri L. DILIP and Rayesh KUMAR coauthored the article “Clitic or Agreement Restriction in Santali: A Typological Analysis”, in which they investigated the syntactic configuration of pronominal number marking in Santali, the third most-spoken Austroasiatic language, from syntactic, morphological and prosodic perspective.
The following article “Contextual factors and language: an analysis of order placements” was written by Andrej BEKEŠ. It tackles Japanese in a specific social context, namely written ordering requirements on a crowdsourcing website, and reports negative correlation between the level of added value of such requirements and the quality of linguistic expression, comparing it to the Grice’s maxims of conversation.
ITO Hideaki\u27s article “Orthoepic Competence Descriptors in Japanese Language Education: CEFR Levels B1 to C2” overviews the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) and the JF Standard for Japanese-Language Education to discuss the benefits of their merging. In particular, the author re-examines CEFR descriptors for levels B1 to C2 in a non-alphabetically transcribed Japanese, which have not yet been attempted, and combine them with the results for levels A1 and A2 to present descriptors for levels A1 to C2 in overall.
KIM Yu Young in his article “Development and Operation Results of Japanese Accent Perception Test Based On e-learning System” introduced the [AJ-phonetic Test] system, an online tool for practicing perception of Japanese word accent, presented its benefits through a longitudinal study on Korean learners of Japanese.
Finally, Miha PAVLOVIČ wrote an article entitled “Grammar Errors by Slovenian Learners of Japanese: Corpus Analysis of Writings on Beginner and Intermediate Levels”. In it he first presents how to construct such a corpus, and then presents his analysis of grammar errors that a collection of 182 written texts written by Japanese learners contained.
Editors and Editorial Board wish the regular and new readers of the ALA journal a pleasant read full of inspiration.
ALA editorial boar
Galba, el "ala tauriana" y el "ala sulpicia"
No full textThe connections between Galba and two chivalry wings are analyzed, the ala Tauriana and the ala Sulpicia. The author concludes that the ala Tauriana was one of wings which supported the insurrection of A.D. 68, while the ala Sulpicia was one of units created by Galba in the same year. It is also exposed that another auxiliary unit created as support to the rebellion could have been the Cohors VI Asturum.Se analizan las conexiones entre Galba y dos alas de caballería, el ala Tauriana y el ala Sulpicia. El autor concluye que el ala Tauriana era ser una de las alas que apoyaron la insurrección del 000 68 d.C., mientras que el ala Sulpicia fue una de las unidades creadas por Galba ese mismo 000. Se plantea también que otra unidad auxiliar creada como apoyo a la rebelión pudo ser la Cohors VI Asturum
"El ala del cuervo", 1883
No full textabstract: Handwritten poem composed by Rubén Darío.The original Rubén Darío Papers 1882-1945 (MSS-339) are located at ASU Libraries Archives & Special Collections. For more information about visiting the collection see http://hdl.handle.net/2286/L.A.0.The first page has the title "El ala del cuervo" and Ruben Dario's name. Likewise the odd numbers have the written words "El ala..." as well as Ruben Dario's name.The year of this composition (1883) appears on the last page.All pages are numerated in roman numerals.Some pages show transfer ink from the reverse opposing page
Date epidemiologice privind tusea convulsivă în Republica Moldova în ultimile două decenii
No full textIntroducere
Deși tusea convulsivă rămâne în mare parte o boală pediatrică, cu
38% din cazuri care apar la sugarii cu vârsta sub 6 luni și 71% cazuri -
la copiii mai mici de 5 ani, adolescenții și adulții, de asemenea, pot
contracta boala și contribuie la creșterea numărului de cazuri la copii
și adulți, observate în ultimele 3 decenii. La nivel mondial, anual sunt
raportate peste 24 de milioane de cazuri de tusă convulsivă și peste
160 mii de decese în urma complicațiilor. Scopul studiului a fost de a
evidenția tendința particularităților epidemiologice a tusei convulsive
în populația Republicii Moldova (RM).
Material și metode
A fost întreprins un studiu observațional descriptiv, pentru realizarea
căruia au fost analizate date, privind tusea convulsivă, înregistrate în
Republica Moldova în anii 2005-2023 din buletinele epidemiologice a
bolilor infecțioase (forma 2) și rapoartele statistice privind vaccinarea
copiilor (forma 6), prezentate Agenției Naționale pentru Sănătate
Publică.
Rezultate
Între anii 2005-2023, în populaţia RM a fost înregistrată o tendință
constantă de creștere a morbidității prin tuse convulsivă de la
6,0‰₀₀ (2005) la 137,3‰₀₀ (2023), cu excepția perioadei de
înregistrare a pandemiei cauzate de SARS CoV2, când morbiditatea prin infecții în RM, inclusiv respiratorii, a fost influențată de măsurile
întreprinse pentru controlul epidemiei. Din numărul total de cazuri,
circa 81,9% au fost înregistrate în populația urbană a țării, ponderea
acestora sporind anual de la 70,8% (a.2005) la 100% (a.2022).
Aceeași legitate a fost înregistrată și la adulți. La analiza datelor
privind vârsta pacienților, a fost constatat că, tusea convulsivă a fost
înregistrată preponderent în populația copiilor (95,5%). Totodată, au
fost perioade când ponderea adulților a atins 10,2% (a.2015) sau
circa 20% (a.2021). Pe parcursul anilor cel mai afectat grup de vârstă
a fost de 0-2 ani, cu o incidență medie de 47,38‰₀₀ (53,3%), urmat
de copiii din segmentul de vârstă între 7-17 ani, cu 7,8‰₀₀ (25,7%) 3-
6 ani, cu 14,27‰₀₀ (20,9%). Cele mai puține cazuri au fost
înregistrate la copiii între 3-6 ani, cu 14,27‰₀₀ (20,9%). Tendința de
creștere a copiilor de 7-17 ani printre bolnavii cu tuse convulsivă a
început odată cu modificarea marjei superioare de vârstă a copiilor
(a. 2004). Ca urmare a fost constatat fenomenul maturizării tusei
convulsive, observat și la alte maladii respiratorii prevenibile prin
vaccinare. În urma studierii evoluției morbidității și a acoperirii
vaccinale cu DTP3 a fost constatată o relație a creșterii morbidității în
urma descreșterii acoperirii vaccinale, care din anul 2009 se află sub
nivelul recomandat (95%), ceea ce cauzează controlul limitat a tusei
convulsive.
Concluzii
În situația epidemiologică creată este necesară continuarea
promovării vaccinării copiilor, inclusiv cu fortificarea cunoștințelor
populației generale în domeniu și creșterea gradului de
conștientizare, privind importanța procesului de imunizare, a
specialiștilor din sănătate și educație
Putting web analytics to use creating a data driven website
No full textThis chapter examines a data-driven library website redesign and suggests informed best practices for pragmatically managing a redesign project.Citation: Pitts, J., & Coleman, T. L. (2013). The right tools for the job: Using analytics to
drive design. In T. Farney & N. McHale (Eds.). Web analytics strategies for information
professionals: A LITA guide (pp.131-145). Chicago : ALA TechSource
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