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The semantics of evidentiality and epistemic modality in Avar
No full text[Extract] Avar (ISO 639-3ava) is one of the larger Nakh-Daghestanian (East Caucasian) languages. The number of Avar speakers can be estimated at around 800,000.¹ Traditionally, Avars live in the central and western parts of Daghestan, and there are also Avar communities in Georgia and in northern Azerbaijan. In the last 150 years many Avars have migrated to Turkey² and to various parts of Russia
Introduction to 'The Semantics of Verbal Categories in Nakh-Daghestanian Languages'
No full text[Extract] This book explores the semantics of tense, aspect, modality and evidentiality in Nakh-Daghestanian (North-East Caucasian) languages. From a general point of view, these verbal categories and the conceptual relations between the four semantic domains are interesting for linguists from various theoretical and areal backgrounds as well as for researchers from other fields (philosophy of language, cognition, etc.). Virtually all sentences carry information about tense, aspect, modality, and in many languages also evidentiality. Within individual languages, these domains are commonly formally and functionally interrelated. this raises questions about the categorization and the status of the forms and how we can deal with them when writing grammars of specific languagges, expecially when there is no established research tradition for the languages in question
The semantics of evidentiality and epistemic modality in Avar
No full text[Extract] Avar (ISO 639-3ava) is one of the larger Nakh-Daghestanian (East Caucasian) languages. The number of Avar speakers can be estimated at around 800,000.¹ Traditionally, Avars live in the central and western parts of Daghestan, and there are also Avar communities in Georgia and in northern Azerbaijan. In the last 150 years many Avars have migrated to Turkey² and to various parts of Russia
Introduction to 'The Semantics of Verbal Categories in Nakh-Daghestanian Languages'
No full text[Extract] This book explores the semantics of tense, aspect, modality and evidentiality in Nakh-Daghestanian (North-East Caucasian) languages. From a general point of view, these verbal categories and the conceptual relations between the four semantic domains are interesting for linguists from various theoretical and areal backgrounds as well as for researchers from other fields (philosophy of language, cognition, etc.). Virtually all sentences carry information about tense, aspect, modality, and in many languages also evidentiality. Within individual languages, these domains are commonly formally and functionally interrelated. this raises questions about the categorization and the status of the forms and how we can deal with them when writing grammars of specific languagges, expecially when there is no established research tradition for the languages in question
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
Tense, aspect, modality and finiteness in East Caucasian languages
No full textBased on selected presentations given at the conference "Morphosyntax of Caucasian Languages" held in December 2006 at the Collège de France (Paris).This collection of papers deals with the morphosyntax of verbal categories in a broad sample of languages spoken in the Eastern Caucasus. Most of these languages are genetically related and belong to the East Caucasian (alias Nakh-Daghestanian) family, but similarities with surrounding Turkic or North-West Caucasian languages are also touched upon in some of the contributions. MARINA CHUMAKINA's paper "Morphological complexity of Archi verbs" offers a typical example, based on a single and very small, but well studied language, of how verbal forms are built in most East Caucasian languages; TIMUR MAISAK's contribution then studies the present and the future forms within the Lezgic tense and aspect systems focussing on one branch of the family, while a paper by GILLES AUTHIER "From adlocative case to debitive mood without desubordination in Budugh and Kryz" zooms on an understudied sub-branch to address a current debate on morpheme polycategoriality. NINA DOBRUSHINA in her wide-ranging study on the Optative domain in East Caucasian languages builds on the contributor's general expertise on this topic. NINA SUMBATOVA, the main specialist of the Dargwa branch of East Caucasian - a family in which verbs usually do not bear person indexes - takes up the puzzle of person hierarchies and the problem of person marker origin in Dargwa. The scope of ELENA KALININA's "Exclamative clauses in the languages of the North Caucasus and the problem of finiteness" is broader and proposes original views on a neglected aspect of verbal morphosyntax
The Semantics of Verbal Categories in Nakh-Daghestanian Languages: tense, aspect, evidentiality, mood and modality
Get PDF[Extract] This book explores the semantics of tense, aspect, modality and evidentiality in Nakh-Daghestanian (North-East Caucasian) languages. From a general point of view, these verbal categories and the conceptual relations between the four semantic domains are interesting for linguists from various theoretical and areal backgrounds as well as for researchers from other fields (philosophy of language, cognition, etc.). Virtually all sentences carry informaiton about tense, aspect, modality, and in many languages also evidentiality. Within individual languages, these domains are commonly formally and functionally interrelated. This raises questions about the categorization and the status of the forms and how we can deal with them when writing grammars of specific languages, expecially when there is no established research tradition for the languages in question
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