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The Oxford guide to the Transeurasian languages
No full textThe Oxford Guide to the Transeurasian Languages provides a comprehensive account of the Transeurasian languages, and is the first major reference work in the field since 1965. The term 'Transeurasian' refers to a large group of geographically adjacent languages that includes five uncontroversial linguistic families: Japonic, Koreanic, Tungusic, Mongolic, and Turkic. The historical connection between these languages, however, constitutes one of the most debated issues in historical comparative linguistics. In the present book, a team of leading international scholars in the field take a balanced approach to this controversy, integrating different theoretical frameworks, combining both functional and formal linguistics, and showing that genealogical and areal approaches are in fact compatible with one another.The volume is divided into five parts. Part I deals with the historical sources and periodization of the Transeurasian languages and their classification and typology. In Part II, chapters provide individual structural overviews of the Transeurasian languages and the linguistic subgroups that they belong to, while Part III explores Transeurasian phonology, morphology, syntax, lexis, and semantics from a comparative perspective. Part IV offers a range of areal and genealogical explanations for the correlations observed in the preceding parts. Finally, Part V combines archaeological, genetic, and anthropological perspectives on the identity of speakers of Transeurasian languages. The Oxford Guide to the Transeurasian Languages will be an indispensable resource for specialists in Japonic, Koreanic, Tungusic, Mongolic, and Turkic languages and for anyone with an interest in Transeurasian and comparative linguistics more broadly.Detailed Contents Series Preface List of Figures and Tables List of Abbreviations Romanization Conventions The Contributors Introduction, Martine Robbeets and Alexander Savelyev Part I: Sources and Classification A: Historical Sources and Periodization 1: Historical sources and periodization of the Japonic and Koreanic languages, Marc Miyake 2: The Altaic languages: Tungusic, Mongolic, Turkic, Volker Rybatzki B: Genealogical Classification 3: The classification of the Transeurasian languages, Martine Robbeets 4: The classification of the Japonic languages, Elisabeth M. de Boer 5: The classification of the Korean language and its dialects, Kyou-Dong Ahn and Jaehoon Yeon 6: The classification of the Tungusic languages, Lindsay J. Whaley and Sofia Oskolskaya 7: The classification of the Mongolic languages, Hans Nugteren 8: The classification of the Turkic languages, Lars Johanson 9: A Bayesian approach to the classification of the Turkic languages, Alexander Savelyev C: Typology 10: The typological heritage of the Transeurasian languages, Martine Robbeets 11: Typological profile of the Transeurasian languages from a quantitative perspective, Nataliia Hübler Part II: Individual Structural Overviews 12: Japanese and the mainland dialects, Masayoshi Shibatani 13: Amami and Okinawa, the Northern Ryukyuan languages, Yuto Niinaga 14: Miyako, Ishigaki, and Yonaguni, the Southern Ryukyuan languages, John R. Bentley 15: Korean and the Korean dialects, Ho-min Sohn 16: Jejudo Korean, Ubong Shin, Jieun Kiaer, and Jiyoung Shin 17: Xibe and the Manchuric languages, Taeho Jang 18: Even and the Northern Tungusic languages, Brigitte Pakendorf and Natalia Aralova 19: Nanai and the Southern Tungusic languages, Sofia Oskolskaya 20: Dagur, Yohei Yamada 21: Khalkha Mongolian, Jan-Olof Svantesson 22: Oirat and Kalmyk, the Western Mongolic languages, Ágnes Birtalan 23: The northwestern Turkic (Kipchak) languages, Éva A. Csató and Lars Johanson 24: Turkish and the southwestern Turkic (Oghuz) languages, Jaklin Kornfilt 25: Uyghur and Uzbek, the southeastern Turkic languages, Abdurashid Yakup 26: Sakha and Dolgan, the North Siberian Turkic languages, Brigitte Pakendorf and Eugénie Stapert 27: Chuvash and the Bulgharic languages, Alexander Savelyev Part III: Comparative Overviews A: Phonology 28: A comparative approach to the consonant inventory of the Transeurasian languages, Allan R. Bomhard 29: A comparative approach to the vowel systems and harmonies in the Transeurasian languages and beyond, Andrew Joseph, Seongyeon Ko, and John Whitman B: Morphology 30: A comparative approach to verbal morphology in Transeurasian, Martine Robbeets 31: A comparative approach to nominal morphology in Transeurasian: Case and plurality, Ilya Gruntov and Olga Mazo 32: A comparative approach to the pronominal system in Transeurasian, Michal Schwarz, Ondřej Srba, and Václav Blažzek C: Syntax 33: The nominal group, possessive agreement, and nominal sentences in the Transeurasian languages, Irina Nevskaya and Lina Amal 34: Verbal categories in the Transeurasian languages, Andrej Malchukov and Patryk Czerwinski 35: Complex constructions in the Transeurasian languages, Andrej Malchukov and Patryk Czerwinski D: Lexicon and Semantics 36: Basic vocabulary in the Transeurasian languages, Martine Robbeets 37: Numerals in the Transeurasian languages, Václav Blažzek 38: Kinship term paradigms in the Transeurasian languages, Milan van Berlo Part IV: Areal Versus Inherited Connections 39: Contact between genealogically related languages: the case of Old Korean and Old Japanese, Alexander T. Francis-Ratte and J. Marshall Unger 40: Form and pattern borrowing across Siberian Turkic, Mongolic, and Tungusic languages, Gregory D. S. Anderson 41: Transeurasian as a continuum of diffusion, Edward Vajda 42: Beck-Wichmann-Brown evaluation of lexical comparisons for the Transeurasian proposal, Cecil H. Brown Part V: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Identity of Transeurasian 43: The homelands of the individual Transeurasian proto-languages, Martine Robbeets, Juha Janhunen, Alexander Savelyev, and Evgeniya Korovina 44: The Transeurasian homeland: Where, what and when?, Martine Robbeets 45: Transeurasian unity from a population genetic perspective, Choongwon Jeong, Chuan-Chao Wang, and Chao Ning 46: Transeurasian unity from an archaeological perspective, Tao Li 47: Language dispersals and the 'Secondary Peoples' Revolution': A historical anthropology of the Transeurasian unity, Mark James Hudson References Inde
Electronic properties of quantum dot systems realized in semiconductor nanowires
No full textCatalyst-assisted growth of semiconductor nanowires has opened up several new and exciting possibilities for low-dimensional semiconductor structures. The authors review progress on the realization of quantum dots in semiconductor nanowires, and their characterization by transport spectroscopy. Emphasis is placed on the wide range electronic properties exhibited due to flexibility of the growth process in terms of nanostructure composition and size. Particular attention is placed on studies of spin in few-electron quantum dots
Global Fukaya category I
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symplectomorphisms of a monotone symplectic manifold . Let be the -nerve of the Fukaya category , and let denote the component of the ``space of -categories'' .
Using Floer-Fukaya theory for a monotone we construct a natural
up to homotopy classifying map \begin{equation*}
BHam (M, \omega) \to (|\mathbb{S}|, NFuk (M, \omega)). \end{equation*} This
verifies one sense of a conjecture of Teleman on existence of action of on the Fukaya category of . This construction is very
closely related to the theory of the Seidel homomorphism and the quantum
characteristic classes of the author, and this map is intended to be the
deepest expression of their underlying geometric theory. In part II the above
map is shown to be nontrivial by an explicit calculation. In particular, we
arrive at a new non-trivial ``quantum'' invariant of any smooth manifold, which
motives the statement of a kind of ``quantum'' Novikov conjecture.Comment: To appear in IMRN, 61 page
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Electronic properties of quantum dot systems realized in semiconductor nanowires
No full textCatalyst-assisted growth of semiconductor nanowires has opened up several new and exciting possibilities for low-dimensional semiconductor structures. The authors review progress on the realization of quantum dots in semiconductor nanowires, and their characterization by transport spectroscopy. Emphasis is placed on the wide range electronic properties exhibited due to flexibility of the growth process in terms of nanostructure composition and size. Particular attention is placed on studies of spin in few-electron quantum dots
Calculations of the binding-energy differences for highly-charged Ho and Dy ions
No full textThe binding-energy differences for and
ions with ionization degrees , , and
are calculated. The calculations are performed using the large-scale
relativistic configuration-interaction and relativistic coupled-clusters
methods. The contributions from quantum-electrodynamics, nuclear-recoil, and
frequency-dependent Breit-interaction effects are taken into account. The final
uncertainty does not exceed eV. Combining the obtained results with the
binding-energy difference for neutral atoms calculated in [Savelyev et al.,
Phys. Rev. A 105, 012806 (2022)], we get the secondary differences of the
ion-atom binding energies. These values can be used to evaluate the amount of
energy released in the electron capture process in atom
(the value), provided mass differences of highly charged ions
and is known from experiment.
The value is required by experiments on the determination of the absolute
scale of the electron neutrino mass by studying the beta-decay process.Comment: 4 pages, Jetp Lett. (2023
The long-wavelength view of GG Tau A: rocks in the ring world
No full textWe present the first detection of GG Tau A at centimetre wavelengths, made with the Arcminute Microkelvin Imager Large Array at a frequency of 16 GHz (λ = 1.8 cm). The source is detected at >6 σrms with an integrated flux density of S16GHz = 249 ± 45 µJy. We use these new centimetre-wave data, in conjunction with additional measurements compiled from the literature, to investigate the long-wavelength tail of the dust emission from this unusual protoplanetary system. We use an MCMC-based method to determine maximum likelihood parameters for a simple parametric spectral model and consider the opacity and mass of the dust contributing to the microwave emission. We derive a dust mass of Md ~ 0.1 Msun, constrain the dimensions of the emitting region and find that the opacity index at λ > 7 mm is less than unity, implying a contribution to the dust population from grains exceeding ~4 cm in size. We suggest that this indicates coagulation within the GG Tau A system has proceeded to the point where dust grains have grown to the size of small rocks with dimensions of a few centimetres. Considering the relatively young age of the GG Tau association in combination with the low derived disc mass, we suggest that this system may provide a useful test case for rapid core accretion planet formation models
Formation of Literary Image of I. M. Muravyov-Apostol
No full textThe formation of the literary image of Ivan Matveyevich Muravyov-Apostol is discussed, who entered the history of Russian literature as the author of a journalistic series “Letters from Moscow to Nizhny Novgorod” and “The Journey in Tauris in 1820.” It is noted that I. M. Muravyov-Apostol is famous for being “a scholar and lover of antiquity.” The author of the article explores the translation activity of I. M. Muravyov-Apostol, his enthusiasm for the work of the Roman poet Horace. It is shown how the translations of satirical works and odes of Horace by Muravyov-Apostol influenced the formation of his literary interests and, accordingly, the creation of the literary image of the writer. The critical works devoted to the translation activity of Muravyov-Apostol are considered. The role of friendship is noted between the writer and G. R. Derzhavin with whom they were united by similar attitude to the literary and civil issues, as well as interest in ancient culture and translation of satirical works and odic poetry of Horace. Excerpts from their correspondence are given, as well as opinions of other writers about the creative activities of Muravyov-Apostol. The author concludes that special influence on the formation of Muravyov-Apostol’s literary image had self-presentation of his translations at meetings of the society “Beseda lyubiteley russkogo slova.
Long-term wind-driven X-ray spectral variability of NGC 1365 with Swift
No full textWe present long-term (months–years) X-ray spectral variability of the Seyfert 1.8 galaxy NGC 1365 as observed by Swift, which provides well-sampled observations over a much longer time-scale (six years) and a much larger flux range than is afforded by other observatories. At very low luminosities, the spectrum is very soft, becoming rapidly harder as the luminosity increases and then, above a particular luminosity, softening again. At a given flux level, the scatter in hardness ratio is not very large, meaning that the spectral shape is largely determined by the luminosity. The spectra were therefore summed in luminosity bins and fitted with a variety of models. The best-fitting model consists of two power laws, one unabsorbed and another, more luminous, which is absorbed. In this model, we find a range of intrinsic 0.5–10.0 keV luminosities of approximately 1.1–3.5 erg s?1, and a very large range of absorbing columns, of approximately 1022–1024 cm?2. Interestingly, we find that the absorbing column decreases with increasing luminosity, but that this result is not due to changes in ionization. We suggest that these observations might be interpreted in terms of a wind model in which the launch radius varies as a function of ionizing flux and disc temperature and therefore moves out with increasing accretion rate, i.e. increasing X-ray luminosity. Thus, depending on the inclination angle of the disc relative to the observer, the absorbing column may decrease as the accretion rate goes up. The weaker, unabsorbed, component may be a scattered component from the wind
The construction of Karen Karnak: The multi-author-function
No full textThis thesis is situated within the comparatively recent developments of Web 2.0 and the emergence of interactive WikiMedia, and explores the mode of authorship within a Read/Write culture compared to that of a Read/Only tradition. The hypothesis of this study is that the role of the audience has become merged with the author, and as such, represents new functions and attributes, distinct from a more conventional concept of authorship, in which the roles of audience and author are more separate. Read/Write and participatory culture, as defined by this study, is focused on collaboration, and includes the influences of D.I.Y. culture, Open-Source practices and the production of text by multiple authors. Multi-authorship presents a re-thinking of several concepts which support the notion of the individual author, since the focus of multi-authorship is not on attribution and ownership of a finished text, but on the continued malleability of a text. Modes of multi-authorship, demonstrated in the use of the pseudonyms Alan Smithee and Karen Eliot, represent declarative authors whose names signify multiple origins, whilst concurrently indicating a distinct body of work. The function of these names form an important context to this study, since primary research involves the construction of an experimental mode of multi-authorship utilising WikiMedia technology and the interaction of thirty nine participants, who are invited to create a body of work under the collective pseudonym Karen Karnak. The data generated by this experiment is analysed using aspects of Michel Foucault's author-function to identify and determine power structures inherent in the WikiMedia context. The interplay of power structures, including concepts such as identity, ownership and the body of work, affect the resulting mode of authorship and contribute to the construction of Karen Karnak, suggesting further areas of research into the emerging multi-author
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