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A Grammar of Dhimal
Get PDFThe present work, a grammar of Dhimal, fills an important void in the documentation of the vast and ramified Tibeto-Burman language family. Dhimal, a little known and endangered tongue spoken in the lowlands of southeastern Nepal by about 20,000 individuals, is described in this detailed work. With data gathered over many years in the village of Āṭhiyābārī, the author crafts a readable description of the western dialect, using over 1000 examples to illustrate usage. Included in this reference work are seventeen texts transcribed from recordings made in Nepal, riddles, songs and a Dhimal-English glossary. This grammar of Dhimal joins other recent ground-breaking linguistic descriptions by researchers from the Himalayan Languages Project at Leiden University and will have lasting scientific value both for future scholars and for the Dhimal community in their efforts at preserving their language.LEI Universiteit LeidenAsian Studie
A grammar of Sunwar : descriptive grammar, paradigms, texts and glossary
Get PDFSunwar is a Tibeto-Burman language spoken in eastern Nepal, in the districts of Okhaldhūgā and Rāmechāp, which are situated in an area called Kirant. The languages spoken in this region, also known as Kiranti languages. The language commonly known as Sunwar in English and as Sunuvār in Nepali, is called Koĩc by its native speakers.
This description of the Sunwar language is based on data collected during twelve months of field work and contains a chapter with background information on the Sunwar language, its speakers and their culture, followed by chapters on the phonology, the indigenous writing system and the nominal and verbal morphology of Sunwar. Final chapters contain verb paradigms, glossed texts, a Sunwar-English glossary and bibliographical references.
Two of the new discoveries depicted in this grammar pertain to the phonology and to the verbal morphology.
Sunwar has no implosives anymore, but the language once had at least one implosive // as can be shown by a comparison of phonetic realisa¬tions of the former implosive // in different dialects.
At an earlier stage, Sunwar had a biactantial agreement system typical for Kiranti languages. A comparison of the suffix conjugations of modern Sunwar with the older biactantial agreement system shows a regular relationship between the two systems.LEI Universiteit LeidenNetherlands Foundation of Tropical Research (WOTRO): subsidies for three field trips (1999, dossier number: WR 39-270; 2000, dossier number: WR 39-279; and 2001, dossier number: WR 39-288)
Centre for Non-Western Studies (CNWS): two-year position as assistant in opleiding (AIO)Asian Studie
A Grammar of Lepcha
Get PDFThis book is a descriptive grammar
of Lepcha, a Tibeto-Burman language spoken in Sikkim, Darjeeling
district in West Bengal in India, in Ilam district in Nepal, and in a
few villages of Samtsi district in south-western Bhutan. The data for
this study were collected during several sojourns amongst the Lepcha
people in Kalimpong and Sikkim between 1994 and 1998. The grammar
includes chapters on phonology, morphology, derivation and sentence
particles, as well as morphologically analysed example sentences and
texts, a bilingual glossary and an index.
This grammar is the first modern description of the Lepcha language.
Lepcha has no elaborate conjugational morphology. Nouns lack a
grammatical gender distinction and show no agreement with articles,
adjectives or verbs. There is no verbal agreement morphology and actants
are not morphologically indexed in the verb. Tense, mood, aspect and
other meanings of the verb are expressed by the use of postpositions and
auxiliary verbs.
Although Lepcha is unmistakably a Tibeto-Burman language, its exact
position within Tibeto-Burman is still unclear. Whilst Lepcha may lack
the formal complexity of some Himalayan languages, the interest of
Lepcha morphology lies in the semantics of the grammatical categories
expressed by the Lepcha repertoire of endings and auxiliaries.LEI Universiteit LeidenNWO Spinoza-programme Kortlandt CNWS, LUCLHimalaya-talenprojec
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
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