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New approaches to the typology of gender
No full textNominal classification remains a fascinating topic. To make further progress in this area we need greater clarity of definition and analysis. We use canonical gender as an ideal against which we can measure the great variety of the actual gender systems we find in the languages of the world. Starting from previous work on canonical morphosyntactic features, particularly on how they intersect with canonical parts of speech, we establish the distinctiveness of gender, reflected in the Canonical Gender Principle: In a canonical gender system, each noun has a single gender value. We develop three criteria associated with this principle, which together ensure that canonically a noun has exactly one gender value. We give examples of non-canonicity for each criterion, and this establishes a substantial typological space, which accommodates the various non-canonical gender systems in the languages featured in this volume.</p
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
Grammaire bilectale du baga pukur : une langue atlantique de Guinée
No full textCette thèse est une description grammaticale des deux variétés existantes du pukur, une langue atlantique menacée parlée par moins d’un millier de personnes sur la côte de la Guinée. Elle vise à être informée par la typologie afin d’être utilisable par les typologues et les comparatistes. Cette langue n’avait pratiquement jamais été décrite ou documentée auparavant. La grammaire respecte une approche descriptive de la forme vers la fonction et englobe tous les niveaux de description, de la phonologie à la structure informationnelle en passant par les phrases complexes. Elle est fondée sur des données empiriques collectées par l’auteure au cours de huit mois et demi de travail sur le terrain entre 2019 et 2023. Le cœur de ces données est constitué d’un corpus de textes spontanés comprenant six heures et demie d’enregistrements transcrits et traduits couvrant divers genres, et complété par des données élicitées. Après une introduction, la grammaire est structurée en neuf chapitres : Phonologie ; Parties du discours ; Système de dériflection nominale ; Système de flexion verbale ; Le groupe nominal ; Le groupe adpositionnel et le groupe du verbe à particule ; La proposition simple ; Les phrases complexes ; La structure informationnelle.This work provides a grammatical description of the two existing varieties of Pukur, a highly endangered Atlantic language spoken by less than a thousand people in coastal Guinea. It aims to be typologically informed so as to be usable by typologists and comparative-historical linguists. This language had practically never been described or documented before. The grammar follows a form-to-function approach and encompasses all description levels, from phonology to information structure, including complex sentences. It draws on empirical data collected by the author during eight and a half months of fieldwork between 2019 and 2023. At its core is a corpus of naturalistic texts encompassing six and a half hours of transcribed and translated recordings spanning diverse genres, which was complemented by elicited data. Following an introduction, the grammar is structured into nine chapters: Phonology; Word classes; Noun deriflection; Verb inflection; Noun phrase; Adpositional phrase and particle verb phrase; Clause; Complex sentences; Information structure
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
Non-canonical gender systems
No full textThe first book to examine these unusual gender systems in the canonical framework. Explores new data from a range of typologically diverse languages. Adopts a clear methodological approach in each chapter. Includes work from international experts in the field
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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