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Some remarks on the "south-Semitic" k-suffix conjugation
No full textThe first singular and the second personal endings of the suffix conjugation in -k are said to be a distinctive feature of South Semitic (cf. Geez -ku, -ka, -ki, - kəmmu, -kən), as in Modern South Arabian, ancient and modern languages of Ethiopia, Ancient South Arabian, and some Yemeni Arabic dialects. In a comparable fashion, Neo-Assyrian also behaves similarly, but neither genealogical nor areal approaches are traditionally used to explain this parallel. It differs from West Semitic, which exhibits -t in the same persons. Besides, Akkadian shows the velar ending in the first person singular only. Starting from this descriptive frame, I will provide some comments concerning the k-suffix distribution across Semitic and the analogies from the possessive suffixes (-ka/-ki for 2nd sg. Pers.) underlying the emergence of the velar ending
The formation of the "Verb" category: from Pre-Semitic to Semitic
Full text linkThe present work aims at describing the formation of the Semitic verb, with close reference to the Akkadian period. Thus, I will provide a detailed analysis of the basic conjugation of the Old Babylonian dialect. During the discourse, it will emerge that the basic conjugational forms (i.e., the perfective iprVs and the stative parVs) come from pre-Semitic nominal and adjectival elements that have gradually entered into a fully-fledged verbal system. More specifically, it will be argued that the Akkadian iprVs develops from a nominal nucleus to which personal pronouns are attached (later, it will be used for the conjugation of the fientive verbs), whereas parVs is said to be originally engaged as the predicative form of adjectives (later, it will be used for the conjugation of the state verbs). The specific formal modifications, like the coalescence of the nominal and pronominal elements into one and semantic redefinitions underlying the verbalization process will be shown in detail
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
The typological development of verbal morphology. Preliminary notes from the Akkadian Iprus
No full textThe present paper briefly remarks the core-issues addressed in my doctoral dissertation on the formation of the verb category as attested in Akkadian. Following are some comments concerning the development of the Semitic verbal morphology and its essential functioning, in keeping with the Akkadian facts. Some general comments pertaining the early history of Semitic Studies complement the contribution
Recensione di N.C.J. Kouwenberg, A Grammar of Old Assyrian. Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1. The Near and Middle East, Brill, Leiden-Boston 2017
No full textRecensione di N.C.J. Kouwenberg, A Grammar of Old Assyria
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe 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
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