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Lhokpu morphology: a first functional and comparative account
No full textLhokpu is a Trans-Himalayan language spoken in southwestern Bhutan in the district of Samtsi. Lhokpu, along with Gongduk and Black Mountain Mönpa, represents the oldest linguistic layer of Bhutan. Lhokpu is nowadays seriously endangered and its phylogenetic affiliation within the Trans-Himalayan phylum is unknown. This talk will present a first account on Lhokpu nominal and verbal morphology and on the phylogenetic position of Lhokpu. A discussion of selected individual morphemes and their functions will be followed by a comparative analysis of the morphological material within the Trans-Himalayan context.
Initial fieldwork was done by George van Driem in 1990, 1992 and 2002 and further by Gwendolyn Hyslop and Karma Tshering in 2012/2013. In summer 2015, a team consisting of George van Driem, Gwendolyn Hyslop, Karma Tshering, Pascal Gerber and Selin Grollmann worked with a Lhokpu speaker in Bern, Switzerland, to supplement the existing data and to write up a first grammatical description of the language
Colloque de clôture du projet ANR HimalCO : Atelier langues Kiranti (Himalaya)
No full textLe colloque de clôture du projet ANR HimalCO se déroulera sous forme d'un atelier, les 1 et 2 décembre 2016 Atelier consacré aux langues Kiranti (sino-tibétain, Népal oriental) Date : 1 et 2 décembre 2016 Lieu : Université Paris Diderot (bâtiment Olympe de Gouges, 5eme étage, salle Laplanche (576) Intervenants invités : Balthasar Bickel (Univ. Zurich), George van Driem (Univ. Berne), Boyd Michailovsky (CNRS), Sabine Stoll (Univ. Zurich). Programme et résumés à consulter sur le site du projet ..
Review of "Languages of the greater Himalayan region, vol. 1 Rabha"
No full textBrill publishers (Leiden, Netherlands) has put out an impressive number of
Tibeto-Burman reference grammars in its Languages of the Greater Himalayan
Region sub-series (editor, George van Driem, contained within the Tibetan
Studies Library). This review concerns U.V. Joseph‟s 2007 descriptive and
comparative grammar of Róngdani Rabha (endonym: Rábatang), a Bodo-Garo
language spoken in Assam, in North East India. This review is organized into
summaries of each chapter, along with comments on particular strengths or gaps.Published versio
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe 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
Full text link“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
Full text linkWe 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
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