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A Cross-Dialect Account of Kurdish Past Tense Categories, with Special Reference to Southern Kurdish
No full textThe bulk of studies on the verbal system of Kurdish address alignment and agreement patterns in past transitive constructions, while comparatively little research has been devoted to a general description of Tense, Aspect, and Mood (TAM) distinctions across Kurdish varieties. Starting from the observation that Southern Kurdish (SK) dialects seem to differ in the structure and functioning of certain sections of their verbal system—both reciprocally and in comparison with Northern Kurdish (NK) and Central Kurdish (CK)—this chapter provides an analysis of the subset of tense/aspect forms used in past-time domains, intending to define regional variation and continuity in their formal and functional properties. Comparative remarks will help contextualize preliminary findings on SK in a broader, cross-cluster framework
Kurdish spoken texts recorded by David MacKenzie in the mid-1950's in Iraqi Kurdistan, prepared and deposited by Geoffrey Haig
Get PDF<p>David Neil MacKenzie (1926‒2001) was a British-born philologist who was professor of Iranian Studies at the University of Göttingen from 1975 to his retirement in 1994. In 1961‒1962, he published a two-volume documentation of different dialects of Kurdish (MacKenzie, David. <em>Kurdish dialect studies</em>, Vol. I‒II. 1961 & 1962, Oxford University Press, abbreviated here as KDS). It was based on extensive field work in Iraqi Kurdistan in the 1950's, and includes a substantial corpus of transcribed and translated recordings, published as volume II of KDS (1962). After MacKenzie’s death, a few of the original recordings (magnetic tapes) were discovered and subsequently digitalized by Geoffrey Haig at the Phonetics Laboratory of the University of Kiel, creating a series of mono WAV-files (sampling rate 44100, 16 Bit resolution). They are made available here in both WAV and MP3 formats by Geoffrey Haig with the assistance of N. Schiborr.</p>
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<p>The tapes contain mostly folkloric and oral history, with some scattered poetry and a word list, primarily of Central Kurdish (CK), also known as Sorani, and some Northern Kurdish, Badinî dialect. The sound quality is somewhat uneven and not sufficient for finer-grained investigations of phonology, but the content is still readily recoverable. Most of the recordings correspond to (some part of) the transcribed and translated texts published in KDS II (1962). A summary of the tapes and the corresponding files, with some comments, is given in the included documentation PDF.</p>
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<li>17 sound files each in two versions, WAV and MP3</li>
<li>a PDF with descriptions of the recordings, including a tabular list of files and tapes</li>
<li>a PDF of MacKenzie, David (1962). <em>Kurdish dialect studies</em>, Vol. II. Oxford University Press.</li>
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Bamberger Orientstudien
No full textDer Band versammelt insgesamt vierzehn Beiträge von Mitgliedern des Instituts für Orientalistik der Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg zu verschiedenen Forschungsthemen. Das Institut umfasst sieben Professuren/Lehrstühle: Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (Prof. Dr. Geoffrey Haig), Arabistik (Prof. Lale Behzadi), Iranistik (Prof. Dr. Birgitt Hoffmann), Islamische Kunstgeschichte und Archäologie (Prof. Dr. Lorenz Korn), Islamwissenschaft (Prof. Dr. Patrick Franke), Judaistik (Prof. Dr. Susanne Talabardon) und Turkologie (Prof. Dr. Christoph Herzog).
Bei den Artikeln handelt es sich um Forschungsbeiträge zur Sprachgeographie Ostanatoliens (Geoffrey Haig), der türkischen (Patrick Bartsch), persischen (Roxane Haag-Higuchi) und arabischen (Lale Behzadi) Literatur, der Religionswissenschaft (Patrick Franke, Johannes Rosenbaum, Susanne Talabardon), zu verschiedenen Aspekten der Geschichte des Nahen und Mittleren Ostens (Birgitt Hoffmann, Nana Kharebava, Andreas Wilde, Barbara Henning, Christoph Herzog) sowie zur islamischen Architektur (Lorenz Korn, Mustafa Tupev).This volume brings together fourteen contributions on diverse fields of research by members of the Institute for Near and Middle Eastern Studies of the Otto-Friedrich University, Bamberg. The institute includes seven departments: General Linguistics (Geoffrey Haig), Arabic Studies (Lale Behzadi), Iranian Studies (Birgitt Hoffmann), Islamic Art and Archaeology (Lorenz Korn), Islamic Studies (Patrick Franke), Jewish Studies (Susanne Talabardon) and Turkish Studies (Christoph Herzog).
The contributions to the volume represent original research in the following fields: the linguistic geography of Eastern Anatolia (Geoffrey Haig), Turkish (Patrick Bartsch), Persian (Roxane Haag-Higuchi) and Arabic (Lale Behzadi) literature, aspects of religious studies (Patrick Franke, Johannes Rosenbaum, Susanne Talabardon), Near and Middle Eastern history (Birgitt Hoffmann, Nana Kharebava, Andreas Wilde, Barbara Henning, Christoph Herzog), and Islamic architecture (Lorenz Korn, Mustafa Tupev)
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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