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Art, Biography, Sexuality: Patrick Procktor and Keith Vaughan
No full textThis critical review forms a reflection on the research published within the following publications:
Patrick Procktor: Art and Life (Unicorn Press, 2010)
Keith Vaughan: The Mature Oils 1946-1977, (Sansom & Co., 2012)
The research is on two artists, Patrick Procktor (1936-2003), and Keith Vaughan (1912-1977). The monograph on Procktor – previously one of the least documented of the generation of artists who came to prominence in London in the Sixties – positions him in a history of art from which he had been notably absent. The research on Vaughan asserts a new reading of his work, one that is both deeper and more nuanced in its analysis of the ways in which personal experience and sexuality are encoded autobiographically within his work. Crucially, in both artists biography and work are symbiotically linked; the research therefore examines the links between life and art.
Revisionary in intent, the work examines trajectories of experience of gay British (or rather, English) artists in the twentieth century, artists who sought to express themselves and forge careers within the constraints of a heteronormative society, albeit one in which attitudes to sexuality were undergoing change. As gay men, both were constrained by the social mores of their times, and each used painting as a means to affirm personal and sexual identities. A key research interest is in the ways in which sexuality and persona are reflected in critical responses to the artist’s work: in Vaughan, Procktor and other gay male artists of the period. The writing on both Procktor and Vaughan examines the relationship between their personal and professional/artistic lives, framed within a broader socio-political and art historical context. It asserts the place of biography as a means to understand and form new readings of the work. The work adds substantially to the literature and wider discourse on post-war British painting and social history
Patrick Chamoiseau Recovering Memory
No full textThis timely new book skillfully examines the work of the award-winning writer Patrick Chamoiseau. Considered by many as one of the most innovative writers to hit the French literary scene in over 40 years, Chamoiseau made his name with his book Texaco (published in 1992 and winner of the highest literary prize in France, the Prix Goncourt). His books have gone on to sell millions and his work has been translated by a number of academic presses. McCusker sets the author in context, providing a valuable contribution to 'memory studies' by looking at literary representation of memory in Martinique, a society founded on slavery but now politically assimilated to the metropolitan centre, France.Title Page -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1: Beginnings: The Enigma of Origin -- 2: 'Une tracée de survie': Autobiographical Memory -- 3: Memory Re-collected: Witnesses and Words -- 4: Memory Materialized: Traces of the Past -- 5: Flesh Made Word: Traumatic Memory in Biblique des derniers gestes -- Afterword -- Notes -- Bibliography -- IndexThis timely new book skillfully examines the work of the award-winning writer Patrick Chamoiseau. Considered by many as one of the most innovative writers to hit the French literary scene in over 40 years, Chamoiseau made his name with his book Texaco (published in 1992 and winner of the highest literary prize in France, the Prix Goncourt). His books have gone on to sell millions and his work has been translated by a number of academic presses. McCusker sets the author in context, providing a valuable contribution to 'memory studies' by looking at literary representation of memory in Martinique, a society founded on slavery but now politically assimilated to the metropolitan centre, France.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
Developing an inflectional lexicon for Old Irish
No full textWhile Old Irish (c. 600–900 A.D.) is extensively documented, it remains digitally under-
resourced, lacking the range of digital resources available for other older Indo-European
languages (e.g., Latin, see Pellegrini and Passarotti, 2018). We report on the development
of a fully inflected lexicon of Old Irish nouns, provided in both phonemic and orthographic
notation. This involved a computer-assisted, systematic, and reproducible grapheme-to-
phoneme conversion pipeline and generating morphological forms through a finite-state
transducer. The inflected lexicon we develop will better enable computational studies in
Old Irish morphology, further research into diachronic developments, and have a wide
range of Natural Language Processing (NLP) applications.
We began by extracting noun lemmata from the Old Irish Würzburg glosses (Kavanagh,
2001) and the Corpus PalaeoHibernicum (CorPH) ‘Old Irish Corpus’ (Stifter et al., 2021). We
then devised a set of rules for orthography-to-phonology conversion, subsequently
implemented using the Python package Epitran (Mortensen, Dalmia, and Littell, 2018). The
resulting transcriptions act as the data input for a finite-state transducer (FST) adapted
from Fransen (2019), allowing us to generate inflected forms of Old Irish nouns. Finally,
we derived orthographic forms (and their variants) by applying conversion rules to the
generated forms.
Old Irish presents considerable challenges for the development of a resource of this
nature, given its opaque and inconsistent orthography, complex phonology, elaborate
system of morphophonological alternations, and intricate patterns of morphological
inflection (Anderson, 2016; Stifter, 2009; Thurneysen, 1946; Pedersen, 1909–1913). We
report on how we dealt with these problems in the development of the inflectional
lexicon. While this study focused on the Old Irish nouns in the Würzburg glosses, we
intend to extend the lexicon by applying this pipeline to further corpora and other parts-
of-speech. This inflected lexicon makes possible systematic studies in data-driven
morphology and typology (Pellegrini, 2020; Beniamine, Bonami, and Luís, 2021;
Beniamine, 2021), and facilitates future research into diachronic and diatopic variation in
Irish and the development of further NLP applications for the language.
References
Anderson, Cormac (2016). “Consonant colour and vocalism in the history of Irish”. PhD
thesis. Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu. URL:
https://hdl.handle.net/10593/14780.
Beniamine, Sacha (2021). “One lexeme, many classes: inflection class systems as lattices”.
In: One-to-Many Relations. Ed. by Berthold Crysmann and Manfred Sailer. Berlin:
Language Science Press.
Beniamine, Sacha, Olivier Bonami, and Ana R. Luís (2021). “The fine implicative structure
of European Portuguese conjugation”. In: Isogloss 7.9, pp. 1–35. DOI:
https://doi.org/10.5565/rev/isogloss.109.
Fransen, Theodorus (2019). “Past, present and future: Computational approaches to
mapping historical Irish cognate verb forms”. PhD thesis. Trinity College Dublin,
The University of Dublin. URL: https://github.com/ThFransen84/OIfst.
Kavanagh, Séamus (2001). A Lexicon of the Old Irish Glosses in the Würzburg Manuscript of
the Epistles of St. Paul. Ed. by Dagmar S. Wodtko. Mitteilungen der Prähistorischen
Kommission 45. + 1 CD-ROM. Wien: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der
Wissenschaften. DOI: 10.1553/0x0001fb6e.
Mortensen, David R., Siddharth Dalmia, and Patrick Littell (May 2018). “Epitran: Precision
G2P for Many Languages”. In: Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference
on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2018). Ed. by Nicoletta Calzolari
(Conference chair) et al. Miyazaki, Japan: European Language Resources
Association (ELRA).
Pedersen, Holger (1909–1913). Vergleichende Grammatik der keltischen Sprachen. 2 Vols.
Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht.
Pellegrini, Matteo (2020). “Using LatInfLexi for an Entropy-Based Assessment of
Predictability in Latin Inflection”. English. In: Proceedings of LT4HALA 2020 - 1st
Workshop on Language Technologies for Historical and Ancient Languages. Marseille,
France: European Language Resources Association (ELRA), pp. 37–46. URL:
https://aclanthology.org/2020.lt4hala-1.6.
Pellegrini, Matteo and Marco Passarotti (2018). “LatInfLexi: an Inflected Lexicon of Latin
Verbs”. In: Proceedings of the Fifth Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics
(CLiC-it 2018) (Turin, Italy, Dec. 10, 2018). Ed. by Elena Cabrio, Alessandro Mazzei,
and Fabio Tamburini. Vol. 2253. CEUR Workshop Proceedings. Aachen. URL:
http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2253/paper23.pdf.
Stifter, David (2009). “Early Irish”. In: The Celtic Languages. Ed. by Martin Ball and Nicole
Müller. Hoboken: Routledge.
Stifter, David et al. (2021). Corpus PalaeoHibernicum (CorPH) v1.0. URL:
http://chronhib.maynoothuniversity.ie.
Thurneysen, Rudolf (1946). A Grammar of Old Irish. Trans. by Daniel A. Binchy and Osborn
Bergin. Revised and enlarged edition. Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced
Studies. Repr. 1993, with supplement
Developing an inflectional lexicon for Old Irish
No full textThis paper describes an inflectional lexicon of Old Irish nouns, and the tools developed for its cre-
ation. While Old Irish (c. 600–900 A.D.) is extensively documented, it remains digitally under-resourced.
We develop a morphological description in the form of a fully inflected lexicon of Old Irish nouns, pro-
vided in both phonemic and orthographic notation. This entailed devising a computer-assisted, systematic,
and reproducible grapheme-to-phoneme conversion pipeline and generating morphological forms through
a finite-state transducer. We report on the considerable challenges posed by Old Irish in terms of its mor-
phophonological complexities and its intransparent and inconsistent orthography. The inflected lexicon we
develop will better enable computational studies in Old Irish morphology, further research into diachronic
developments, and have a wide range of Natural Language Processing (NLP) applications.
Despite the fact that “Old Irish is the earliest period of Irish –– or of any Celtic language –– for which
the extant record is sufficiently full and varied to permit a full synchronic description” (Stifter, 2009, p.
59), the language still lacks the range of digital resources available for other Indo-European languages (e.g.,
Latin, see Pellegrini and Passarotti, 2018). While there are a number of independent projects focusing on
Old Irish lexicography (Griffith, Stifter, and Toner, 2018), the most comprehensive resource, both in terms
of contemporary source material included and the level of grammatical annotation, is Corpus PalaeoHiber-
nicum (CorPH) ‘Old Irish Corpus’ (Stifter et al., 2021). However, in spite of the richness of the linguistic
annotation in CorPH, it cannot be used as the basis for a morphological generator without considerable pre-
processing, due to its inconsistent orthography for lemmata and the way it segments complex morphological
structures.
Old Irish presents many challenges for the development of computational resources. The language has a
complex phonology, an elaborate system of morphophonological alternations, and intricate patterns of mor-
phological inflection (Anderson, 2016; Stifter, 2009; Thurneysen, 1946; Pedersen, 1909–1913). Further
to this, the orthography is neither transparent nor consistent, and considerable differences in orthographic
practice exist (Ó Cróinín, 2001). This complicates the development of a tool for automatic orthography-to-
phonology conversion, as many orthographic sequences can have multiple readings; for instance, combina-
tions of sonorant and stop are ambiguous, in that can represent /rg/ or /rk/ and /rg/ or /rɣ/, which
we resolve by a) a normalised orthography, and b) some manual pre-processing.
We developed a pipeline for the creation of an inflectional lexicon. We began by extracting noun lemmata
from the Old Irish Würzburg glosses (Kavanagh, 2001) and then devised a set of rules for orthography-to-
phonology conversion, subsequently implemented using the Python package Epitran (Mortensen, Dalmia,
and Littell, 2018). The resulting transcriptions act as the data input for a finite-state transducer (FST) adapted
from Fransen (2019), allowing us to generate inflected forms of Old Irish nouns. Finally, we derived ortho-
graphic forms (and their variants) by applying conversion rules in the opposite direction. While this study
focused on the Old Irish nouns in the Würzburg glosses, we intend to extend the lexicon by applying this
pipeline to further corpora and other parts-of-speech.
This inflected lexicon makes possible systematic studies in data-driven morphology and typology (Pel-
legrini, 2020; Beniamine, Bonami, and Luís, 2021; Beniamine, 2021). It will also facilitate future research
into diachronic and diatopic variation in Irish and the development of further NLP applications for the lan-
guage. Moreover, the FST created to generate inflected forms provides a concise and thorough grammatical
description of the Old Irish noun, and the automatic phonemic transcription rules can easily be re-used.
References
Anderson, Cormac (2016). “Consonant colour and vocalism in the history of Irish”. PhD thesis.
Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu. URL: https://hdl.handle.net/10593/14780.
Beniamine, Sacha (2021). “One lexeme, many classes: inflection class systems as lattices”. In:
One-to-Many Relations. Ed. by Berthold Crysmann and Manfred Sailer. Berlin: Language Science
Press.
Beniamine, Sacha, Olivier Bonami, and Ana R. Luís (2021). “The fine implicative structure of European
Portuguese conjugation”. In: Isogloss 7.9, pp. 1–35. DOI:
https://doi.org/10.5565/rev/isogloss.109.
Fransen, Theodorus (2019). “Past, present and future: Computational approaches to mapping historical
Irish cognate verb forms”. PhD thesis. Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin. URL:
https://github.com/ThFransen84/OIfst.
Griffith, Aaron, David Stifter, and Gregory Toner (2018). “Early Irish Lexicography – A Research
Survey”. In: Kratylos 63.1, pp. 1–28. DOI: https://doi.org/10.29091/kratylos/2018/1/1.
Kavanagh, Séamus (2001). A Lexicon of the Old Irish Glosses in the Würzburg Manuscript of the Epistles
of St. Paul. Ed. by Dagmar S. Wodtko. Mitteilungen der Prähistorischen Kommission 45. + 1
CD-ROM. Wien: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. DOI:
10.1553/0x0001fb6e.
Mortensen, David R., Siddharth Dalmia, and Patrick Littell (May 2018). “Epitran: Precision G2P for Many
Languages”. In: Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Language Resources and
Evaluation (LREC 2018). Ed. by Nicoletta Calzolari (Conference chair) et al. Miyazaki, Japan:
European Language Resources Association (ELRA).
Ó Cróinín, Dáibhí (2001). “The earliest Old Irish glosses”. In: Mittelalterliche volksprachige Glossen.
Internationale Fachkonferenz des Zentrums für Mittelalterstudien der Otto-Friedrich-Universität
Bamberg 2. bis 4. August 1999. Ed. by Rolf Bergmann, Elvira Glaser, and Claudine Moulin-Fankhänel.
Germanistische Bibliothek 13. Heidelberg: Winter, pp. 7–31.
Pedersen, Holger (1909–1913). Vergleichende Grammatik der keltischen Sprachen. 2 Vols. Göttingen:
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht.
Pellegrini, Matteo (2020). “Using LatInfLexi for an Entropy-Based Assessment of Predictability in Latin
Inflection”. English. In: Proceedings of LT4HALA 2020 - 1st Workshop on Language Technologies for
Historical and Ancient Languages. Marseille, France: European Language Resources Association
(ELRA), pp. 37–46. URL: https://aclanthology.org/2020.lt4hala-1.6.
Pellegrini, Matteo and Marco Passarotti (2018). “LatInfLexi: an Inflected Lexicon of Latin Verbs”. In:
Proceedings of the Fifth Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics (CLiC-it 2018) (Turin, Italy,
Dec. 10, 2018). Ed. by Elena Cabrio, Alessandro Mazzei, and Fabio Tamburini. Vol. 2253. CEUR
Workshop Proceedings. Aachen. URL: http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2253/paper23.pdf.
Stifter, David (2009). “Early Irish”. In: The Celtic Languages. Ed. by Martin Ball and Nicole Müller.
Hoboken: Routledge.
Stifter, David et al. (2021). Corpus PalaeoHibernicum (CorPH) v1.0. URL:
http://chronhib.maynoothuniversity.ie.
Thurneysen, Rudolf (1946). A Grammar of Old Irish. Trans. by Daniel A. Binchy and Osborn Bergin.
Revised and enlarged edition. Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies. Repr. 1993, with
supplement
Replication Data for: Endogenous Price Commitment, Sticky and Leadership Pricing: Evidence from the Italian Petrol Market
No full textThe do-file contains the code to replicate "Endogenous Price Commitment, Sticky and Leadership Pricing: Evidence from the Italian Petrol Market", published in the International Journal of Industrial Organization, vol. 40(C), pages 32-48, by Patrick Andreoli-Versbach and Jens-Uwe Franck.
Contact author is Patrick Andreoli-Versbach. E-Mail: [email protected]
Replication Data for: Endogenous Price Commitment, Sticky and Leadership Pricing: Evidence from the Italian Petrol Market
No full textThe do-file contains the code to replicate "Endogenous Price Commitment, Sticky and Leadership Pricing: Evidence from the Italian Petrol Market", published in the International Journal of Industrial Organization, vol. 40(C), pages 32-48, by Patrick Andreoli-Versbach and Jens-Uwe Franck.
Contact author is Patrick Andreoli-Versbach. E-Mail: [email protected]
The investigation in "Dora Bruder" of Patrick Modiano
No full textreservedIl presente lavoro si propone di affrontare il tema dell’indagine, dell’inchiesta investigativa nel romanzo “Dora Bruder” dello scrittore francese Patrick Modiano, pubblicato nel 1997. Si tratta del più noto successo editoriale dell’autore, il quale, in una narrazione al contempo biografica ed autobiografica, si mette sulle tracce di Dora Bruder, una giovane ragazza ebrea scomparsa nel 1941, di cui si sono perse definitivamente le tracce. La presente tesi si compone di tre capitoli. Nel primo, si analizzeranno i motivi che spingono l’autore ad occuparsi della vicenda della giovane ragazza scomparsa proprio durante la seconda guerra mondiale. Successivamente, nel secondo capitolo, si passerà ad affrontare come l’autore compie la propria indagine per comprendere che cosa le sia accaduto, diventando una sorta di investigatore su un vecchio caso di scomparsa. Ed infine, nell’ultimo capitolo, si analizzerà quale sarà l’esito della sua indagine.This work proposes to deal with the subject of investigation in the novel "Dora Bruder" by French writer Patrick Modiano, published in 1997. It’s the most known publishing success of the author, which, in a narrative in the meantime biographical and autobiographical, goes on the trail of Dora Bruder, a young Jewish girl disappeared in 1941, of whom all traces have been definitively lost. This thesis is composed by three chapters. In the first, we will analyse the reasons why the author deal with the story of the young girl vanished during the Second World War. Then, in the second chapter, we will approach how the author does his own investigation to understand what happened to her, becoming sort of a detective on an old case of disappearence. Finally, in the last chapter, we focus on which it’ll be the outcome of his investigation
William Patrick, 15th Annual ODU Literary Festival
No full textWilliam Patrick has published a collection of poetry, Letter to the Ghosts, and a novel in poetry and prose, Roxa, which won the 1990 Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award for the best first work of fiction. He has also written an original teleplay, Rachel\u27s Dinner , which aired in 1991, and starred Olympia Dukakis and Peter Gerety. Mr. Patrick\u27s most recent screenplay, Brand New Me , has been optioned by Force Ten Productions in Hollywood, and he is the author of Who All Killed Cock Robin?, the play which was adapted from The Death of Cock Robin by W.D. Snodgrass and DeLoss McGraw, and whose premiere opens this year\u27s Literary Arts Festival. He is the Coordinator of the Creative Writing Program at Old Dominion University, and Director of this year\u27s Literary Arts Festival
Translating Patrick Kavanagh
Get PDFThe following concerns the translation I did of a selection of the poetry of Patrick Kavanagh into Spanish, the first translation of this important Irish poet into the Spanish language. It recounts the motives which impelled me to try this daunting task as well as the guidelines I followed, the help I received and the pitfalls I encountered and, hopefully, survived. It looks at some of the images and expressions used by the author and which need to be explained to students and it essays a comparison with the poetry of Antonio Machado, another much loved poet
Observations upon Lord Orrery's remarks on the life and writings of Dr. Jonathan Swift : containing several singular andecdotes relating to the ... celebrated Stella ... : to which are added two original pieces of the same author (excellent in their kind) never before publish'd
No full text[Patrick Delany]Verfasser gemäss Halket
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