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Topographical deixis and the Tani languages of North East India
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In this paper, I will introduce the term topographical deixis to describe this sort of system as it is found in the Tani languages, which constitute a medium-sized branch of Tibeto-Burman languages spoken primarily in Arunachal Pradesh and Assam, North East India, as well as in small
numbers in Tibet (Sun 1993). Although a survey of topographical deixis and related systems in Tibeto-Burman has been initiated and remains ongoing (Post in preparation), in this paper I will mainly restrict
discussion to an explication of the system as it operates in those Tani languages which exhibit it. The paper is thus primarily descriptive in intent, and may also, I hope, be used as a benchmark reference for the study of similar and possibly related systems in other North East Indian
languages.
The remainder of the paper has the following structure: §2 discusses the environmental context of the Tani languages. In §3, we outline the basic characteristics of a system of topographical deixis, also discussing its hypothetical origins and semantic extensions. §4 presents a detailed
overview of the system of topographical deixis found in Lare Galo, based on the recent description of Post (2007), and §5 discusses the status of topographical deixis in other Tani languages
Washington Post Obituary for Fred W. Dickens (July 9, 1974)
No full textAn obituary for Fred W. Dickens that appeared in the July 9, 1974 Washington Post. The obituary had a photograph and gave basic information on his life. It is taped onto lined yellow notebook paper
A Tripartite Post-Recession Rebalancing
No full textIn this latest Advance & Rutgers Report, entitled “A Tripartite Post-Recession Rebalancing,” Dean James W. Hughes and Professor Joseph J. Seneca deliver an incisive assessment of the current market conditions and obstacles in the path of our economic recovery. They offer a statistical cautionary tale that the private and public sector need to hear and acknowledge in order for the economy to make continued progress.This report was published as Issue Paper Number 7, November 2011, in Advance & Rutgers Report
Verbs of position, existence, location and possession and their grammaticalization pathways in the Tani languages
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In some languages, existential, locative and possessive predications are handled by verbs, verbal auxiliaries or copulas with tailored existential, locative or possessive meanings such as 'be (at)' 'live', 'have' or 'exist'.
In other languages, some or all of these functions may be coded by verbs of posture or orientation such as 'sit' 'stand' and 'lie down', among others (cf. several papers in Newman 2002; also Hellwig 2003). Often, existential, locative or possessive predicate selection in the second type of language depends on, or makes reference to, some inherent properties of the focused referent (i.e., the existee, locatee, or possessed), and/or its orientation in space (i.e., in terms of the speaker's construal of the
situation). Aikhenvald (2000: §6.2.3) has described this operation as 'classificatory', as it basically reflects the same semantic and pragmatic principles governing selection of numeral or nominal classifiers in languages which have them
Experimental stress-intensity distributions in three-dimensional cracked-body problems
No full textFor over a decade, the first author and his associates have worked towards the development of an optical-experimental-modeling technique for predicting both the flaw shape and the stress-intensity-factor distribution in three-dimensional cracked-body problems where neither are knowna priori. The application is associated with subcritical flaw growth, the precursor to most service fractures. This paper presents an assessment of results obtained by applying the technique which consists of a marriage between frozen-stress photoelasticity and moiré analysis to measure the stress-intensity-factor distribution across a straight-front crack in a body of finite thickness
"Post-Lisbon" order in Europe
No full textAutor w artykule stawia tezę, że okres w stosunkach międzynarodowych, który nastąpił po zimnej wojnie został już zakończony i obecnie znajdujemy się w kolejnym, któremu nadaje nazwę okresu postlizbońskiego. Dotychczas w dyskursie nad stosunkami międzynarodowymi jest on nazywany pozimnowojennym, bez wyraźnego wyznaczenia jego ram czasowych. Autor poprzez teoretyczne wprowadzenie o ładzie międzynarodowym, jako sposobie określania relacji między podmiotami międzynarodowymi oraz przedstawienie najważniejszych postanowień Traktatu z Lizbony oraz Nowej Koncepcji Strategicznej NATO (przyjętej w Lizbonie) stawia tezę, że nowy okres należy określać mianem ładu postlizbońskiego. Celem artkułu jest zbadanie prawdziwości tego założenia. Artykuł, dzięki analizie przedstawionych zagadnień stanowi próbę udowodnienia postawionej na początku tezy.The author of the article puts forward a thesis that the period in the international relations that came after the Cold War has already been completed and we are now in another one, to which he gives the name of the Post-Lisbon order. So far, in the discourse on the international relations it is called the post-Cold War order, without a clear distinction of its timeframe. The author, who presents a theoretical introduction of the definition of the international order which he perceives as a way of determining the relationship between international actors, who also presents the most important provisions of the Treaty of Lisbon and the New NATO Strategic Concept (adopted in Lisbon), called the new period a post-Lisbon order. By analyzing the presented problems the article constitutes an attempt to prove the thesis which was put forward at the beginning
Classifiers in Mising
No full text[Extract] Mising is an underdescribed language from the Eastern Tani branch of the Tani subgroup Tibeto-Burman (Figure 1). It is currently spoken by approximately 587,310 Mising tribes peoploe living primarily in eight distrivts of upper Assam, namely Tinsukia, Dibrugarh, Sibsagar, Jorhat, Golaghat, Dhemaji, Lakhimpur, and Sonitpur (Census of India 2001). There are at least nine regional varieties of Mising: Pagro, Delu, Ojam, Saajan, Moojin, Dambug, Samuguria, Tamargoja and Bonkual, of which the last three groups have largely adopted Assamese (an Indo-Aryan language) in preference to Mising for the majority of language situations
North East Indian Linguistics Volume 5
No full textIt goes without saying that North East India is one of the most attractive areas on earth in terms of linguistic endeavors. Like its biological diversity, it is a homeland of various ethnic peoples and tribes, as well as their languages, belonging to four broadly-recognized families: Tibeto-Burman, Indo-Aryan, Austro-Asiatic and Tai-Kadai. For the last few decades, western scholars and local Indian scholars have been working on many languages in North East India. Although I am a newcomer in the field of North East Indian Linguistics, I find much research into various languages in the region to be very successful, not to mention the award-winning 'Grammar of Galo' by Mark W. Post. In this sense, I believe that NEILS, where various scholars get together, whether they are highly-accomplished senior scholars or students, provides an excellent forum for presenting the outcomes of linguistic endeavors by foreign and local scholars who work on North East Indian languages, and that it brings a good chemistry to the field. In past NEILS conferences, some Japanese scholars (myself included) participated as well. However, currently there is a relatively small population of Japanese scholars who work on North East Indian languages. Since the advent of Buddhism in Japan in the eighth century, Sanskrit has been the most studied Indian languages in Japan. In the context of Buddhism, Tibetan and Burmese are also actively studied in Japan. Alongside studies of these two languages, other Tibeto-Burman languages are studied as well, especially those spoken in China and Myanmar. However, there are not so many scholars who have been working on North East Indian languages. I was curious about scholars working on North East Indian languages in Japan, and so I checked out as many as I was able to. Therefore, in this Foreword, I would like to take the opportunity to introduce some of the research by Japanese scholars into North East Indian languages, as some of this work might otherwise escape the attention of western and Indian audiences
Prof. Th. W. Adorno and the author Hans Erich Nossack.
No full textProf. Th. W. Adorno and the author Hans Erich Nossack at a reception of Insel Verlag, Buchmesse Frankfurt 1966LB
1947 V. F. W. Invitation
No full textInvitation for Louis-Philippe Gagné to attend the installation of officers at V. F. W. Frank W. Hulett Post No. 1603.https://digitalcommons.usm.maine.edu/fac-lpg-1947-04-06/1019/thumbnail.jp
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