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QXS-132-The_story_of_the_first_shaman
No full text<p>A story told by Mr. Yang Zhiquan about the origin of shamanism in the Yonghe valley. Transcribed and translated by Long Deyue. </p>
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The Verbal Morphology of Yonghe Qiang: an Eastern Himalayan Language
Full text linkThis dissertation presents the verbal morphology of the Yonghe variety of Qiang through the lens of Radical Construction Grammar. Yonghe Qiang is a Tibeto-Burman language spoken primarily in Yonghe Township, Mao County, Aba Prefecture, Sichuan Province, People’s Republic of China. Chapter 1 (Context) provides background information on the Qiang language as well as the people who speak it. It discusses the place of Yonghe within the Qiang language-complex and gives comparative and philological evidence for the uniqueness of Yonghe compared to other varieties. It introduces and motivates the choice of Radical Construction Grammar as the framework for this dissertation. The conventions and empirical materials used throughout this work are also presented.
Chapter 2 (Segmental Phonology) presents the segmental phonology of the language, including the consonants and vowels. Empirical measurements such as waveforms and spectrograms are given for each relevant segment. Attention is given to the phonology of borrowings from Mandarin Chinese. Syllable structure is also discussed, along with utterance final phenomena such as glottalization.
Chapter 3 (Suprasegmental Phonology) presents the tonal melodies in lexical Nouns and Verbs in the language. The typological profile of tone in the language is given consideration. The ways in which tonal Chinese loans are incorporated are treated in depth. The interaction between tone type and syllable length is explored through quantitative methodologies.
Chapter 4 (The Verb-Complex) introduces the verbal template, including the prefixal and suffixal slots. Yonghe constructions are sorted into four categories based on distributional analysis: Verbs, Nouns, Ideophones, and Interjections. Verbs are sub-classified into Active, Stative, and Existential based on their distributional and semantic properties. The chapter discusses the subtypes with respect to tone classes and reduplicative patterns. Noun-Verb compounds and their resulting tonal patterns are analyzed. A small class of bipartite verbs are introduced. The ways in which Chinese loanwords are incorporated into the Verb-Complex is discussed.
Chapter 5 (Prefixes) covers the orientational, aspectual, and modal prefixes. Of particular interest are the set of eight orientational prefixes, which have complex semantics ranging from literal direction marking to aspectual and modal meanings. The prefixes are discussed with reference to their phonological alternations which include tonal alternations and vowel harmony. The use of Chinese loans with Qiang prefixes is also discussed.
Chapter 6 (Suffixes) presents the numerous suffixal forms. The nominalizing suffixes, which have broad use and are a core feature of the morpho-syntax, are presented with some discussion as to their possible etymologies. Two Associated Motion suffixes are discussed in the context of their interaction with orientational prefixes. Two valency increasing suffixes, the applicative, and the causative are analyzed. Lastly, discussion of the person marking suffixes is framed within the wider debate as to the antiquity of the paradigm and also within the broader system of epistemic marking suffixes.
Chapter 7 (Summary) examines the advantages and disadvantages of a Radical Construction Grammar approach to describing the language. The dissertation is then concluded with a discussion of future directions for the study of Yonghe Qiang verbal morphology
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The Suprasegmental Phonology of Yonghe Qiang in Typological Perspective
Full text linkThis thesis is a description of suprasegmental phenomena in Yonghe Qiang, a Tibeto-Burman language spoken in Western Sichuan, China. The analysis, based on original data from fieldwork, presents Yonghe as having an obligatory word-level accent overlaying a privative /L/ vs. Ø tonal contrast. The thesis includes a discussion of issues of tone and prominence in the typology of suprasegmental phonology. The analysis includes an overview of Yonghe segmental phonology, a phonetic and phonological account of both tone and accent on monosyllabic and disyllabic nouns, as well as tone and accent sandhi phenomena. The discussion of the Yonghe data broadens typological knowledge of possible tonal systems and contributes to wider discussions regarding the validity of the phonological category of ‘accent’ (van der Hulst 2011, Hyman 2006, inter alia). The facts of the Yonghe tone system demonstrate the necessity of both tone and accent as units of analysis and the importance of recognizing language-specific phonological categories in phonological typology. The Yonghe system also suggests a need to reconsider and refine classifications of languages as having either ‘Register-tone systems’ or ‘Contour-tone systems’ (Pike 1948)
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
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
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