311 research outputs found
Under the Magnifying Glass: Dimensions of Variation in the Contemporary Timok Variety
Full text linkВ статье рассматривается языковая вариативность, свой- ственная тимокским говорам Юго-Восточной Сербии в насто- ящее время. Диалектный материал, записанный в интервью с местными жителями, демонстрирует значительную вариатив- ность в реализации различных языковых черт. Он отображает частично совпадающие друг с другом паттерны, принадлежа- щие к разным регистрам и формам существования языка, и возникшие в результате контакта между западно-южнославян- скими и балканизированными южнославянскими говорами. В ходе анализа основное внимание уделяется взаимодействию между паттернами, приписываемыми стандартному сербско- му языку (в основе которого лежат западно-южнославянские диалекты), и моделями, характерными для балканизирован- ных говоров. Анализируемые релевантные в этом отношении признаки включают: маркирование косвенного объекта и по- сессора, постпозитивные артикли, частицу si как показатель дательного падежа в возвратном залоге, а также опущение вспомогательного глагола в перфекте. В первой части статьи рассматриваются относительные лингвистические факторы, а основное внимание уделяется морфосинтаксису с целью определения, какие языковые структуры препятствуют или облегчают использование тех или иных форм. Во второй ча- сти исследуется корреляция между выбранными языковыми явлениями и географическими и социальными параметрами с целью найти потенциальные пространственные закономерно- сти распространения признаков и изучить влияние ландшафта (высоты над уровнем моря) или физических расстояний меж- ду населёнными пунктами (расстояния от административно- го центра). Что касается социальных факторов, возраст и пол рассматриваются в корреляции с лингвистическим данными с целью выявления различий в речи мужчин и женщин, или старших и младших носителей диалекта
SOBOLEV, ANDREY N. (ed.) Between Separation and Symbiosis: Southeastern European Languages and Cultures in Contact, Boston/Berlin, 2021, De Gruyter Mouton.
No full textThe volume edited by Andrey N. Sobolev, Between Separation and Symbiosis: Southeastern European Languages and Cultures in Contact, is a comprehensive examination of the linguistic and cultural interactions within the Balkans. This volume addresses the complexity of language contact phenomena in this area, challenging deterministic frameworks of the Balkan Sprachbund while offering nuanced insights into how social, historical, and linguistic factors shape convergence and divergence. The book is a collection of scholarly contributions, each focusing on specific instances of multilingualism and bilingualism, supported by empirical data and theoretical reflections. By addressing previously understudied communities and languages, Between Separation and Symbiosis makes a significant contribution to Balkan linguistics, historical sociolinguistics, and studies of language contact more broadly. 
High-strain actuation of lead-free perovskites : compositional effects, phenomenology and mechanism
Full text linkThesis (Ph.D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering, 2002.Includes bibliographical references.This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.An experimental study was carried out to map the compositional dependence of electromechanical behavior and ferroelectric phase stability in the barium, zirconium-codoped sodium bismuth titanate (BNBZT) system for barium concentrations up to 18 mol.% and zirconium concentrations up to 4 mol.%. A number of polycrystalline BNBZT samples has been electromechanically tested under applied electric fields of different frequencies (0.2-47 Hz). A novel model of electromechanical response capable of describing both dynamic and static hysteresis for pure and mixed cases of ferroelectric, antiferroelectric, ferroelastic and paraelectric behavior has been developed. Major electromechanical properties of polycrystalline BNBZT have been identified and compositionally mapped. The peak of electromechanical response (d33 = 400 pC/N) has been found at the composition (Bil/2Nal/2)0.93Bao.07Zro.02Tio.9803. The compositional dependence of ferroelectric phase stability has been mapped by means of a Landau type free energy expansion. A nanodomain relaxation mechanism of frequency dependent electromechanical response of BNBZT has been suggested and is supported by optical and transmission electron microscopy.by Andrey N. Soukhojak.Ph.D
Copper on Carbon Materials: Stabilization by Nitrogen Doping
No full textN-doping of carbon support prevents sintering of Cu and provides its high catalytic activity in H2 formation from formic acid.</p
Artistic Features of Grigor Luzhnytsky’s story «Twelve Letters of f. Andrey Sheptytsky to Mother»
No full textУ статті проаналізовано повість Григора Лужницького «Дванадцять листів о. Андрея Шептицького до матері» як творче осмислення письменником реальних історичних матеріалів у поєднанні з художнім домис¬лом та вимислом. Досліджено композиційну структуру повісті, при цьому враховано символіку чисел. Схарак-теризовано біблійні ремінісценції твору, містичні елементи. Автор указує на поєднання сакрального і профан-ного в образних характеристиках Андрея Шептицького та його матері. Розглянуто категорії релігійності й патріотизму, які функціонують як нероздільні.The article analyzes the Grigor Luzhnytsky’s story «Twelve letters of f. Andrey Sheptytsky to mother» as writer’s creative comprehension of historical documentary evidence together with artistic conjecture and fiction. Compositional structures of the story, the symbolism of numbers are investigated. Biblical reminiscences of the work, mystical elements are analyzed. The author points to a combination of the sacred and profane in figurative charac-teristics of Andrew Sheptytsky and his mother. The categories of religiosity and patriotism, which function as inseparable, are considered
Between Separation and Symbiosis: South Eastern European Languages and Cultures in Contact Language contact and bilingualism ;, 20./ ed. by Andrey N. Sobolev.
No full textIn English.Includes bibliographical references and indexes.The book deals in detail with previously understudied language contact settings in the Balkans (South East Europe) that present a continuum between ethnic and linguistic separation and symbiosis among groups of people. The studies in this volume achieve several aims: they critically assess the Balkan Sprachbund theory; they analyse general contact theories against the background of new, original, representative field and historical Greek, Albanian, Romance, Slavic and Judesmo data; they employ and contribute to recent methods of research on linguistic convergence in bilingual societies; they propose new general assessments of extra- and intralinguistic factors of Balkanization over the centuries; and they outline prospects for future research. The factors relevant to contact scenarios and linguistic change in the Balkans are identified and typologized through models such as those related to a balanced or unbalanced (socio)linguistic situation.Frontmatter -- Editor's Preface -- Contents -- Contemporary Language Contacts in the Balkans: Situations and Outcomes -- Separation and Symbiosis between Slavs and Albanians as Continuum of Linguistic Contact Situations: New Challenges for New Data -- Mutual Understanding among Albanians, Slavs and Aromanians in Prespa, North Macedonia: Perfect Tense as a Perfect Tool -- "Balanced Language Contact" in Social Context: Velja Gorana in Southern Montenegro -- Symbiosis Suspectus: Palasa in Himara, Albania -- Minority within a Minority: Iabalcea and Carașova in Romania -- Evidence for Past Coexistence: Romance Stratum in Croatian Glagolitic Sources from Krk, Croatia -- Reconstructing Past Coexistence: Problems and Mysteries in the Multilingual History of Tsakonia, Greece -- Convergence and Failure to Converge in Relative Social Isolation: Balkan Judezmo -- Balkan Sprachbund Theory as a Research Paradigm -- Abbreviations -- Index of names -- Authors' profiles Authors' profiles -- Authors' profiles Authors' profiles1 online resource (XII, 328 p.)
Separation and Symbiosis between Slavs and Albanians as Continuum of Linguistic Contact Situations: New Challenges for New Data
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The Balkan Linguistic and Cultural Union: A Holistic Research Program
No full textThe article proposes a new research program on the Balkan linguistic and cultural
union (Balkan Sprachbund and Kulturbund), based on a novel definition of linguistic and
cultural union as a group of non-related languages and cultures connected by regular functional
correspondences, akin to the presence of regular sound correspondences between
languages as a diagnostic feature in the theory of language kinship. It suggests considering
diagnostic and union-forming features, correspondences in inventories and rules of distribution
of functions of units and categories across different languages and cultures, to test
the hypothesis of their inclusion in a linguistic and cultural union.
After a brief overview of the current state of affairs in the scholarly literature on the
subject, the article proposes a structured list of 160+ selected polyfunctional categorical
features, pertaining to different structural levels of language and culture and presumably
demonstrating regular interlinguistic and intercultural Balkan correspondences. The detection
of regularity in correspondences and, consequently, the formulation of a hypothesis
regarding the existence of a linguistic union with prognostic power is suggested as a
possible avenue for resolving the theoretical issue of providing rigorous evidence, through
methods of the humanities, of the existence in the history of humanity of a particular type
of convergent development of idioethnic languages and cultures, and the observed result
of such development — linguistic and cultural unions as distinct language groups (distinct
from language families) and distinct cultural associations
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