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The acquisition of ergativity
No full textErgativity is one of the main challenges both for linguistic and acquisition theories. This book is unique, taking a cross-linguistic approach to the acquisition of ergativity in a large variety of typologically distinct languages. The chapters cover languages from different families and from different geographic areas with different expressions of ergativity. Each chapter includes a description of ergativity in the language(s), the nature of the input, the social context of acquisition and developmental patterns. Comparisons of the acquisition process across closely related languages are made, change in progress of the ergative systems is discussed and, for one language, acquisition by bilingual and monolingual children is compared. The volume will be of particular interest to language acquisition researchers, linguists, psycholinguists and cognitive scientists
Acquisition of gender agreement depends on frequency distributions in specific contexts
Get PDFLearning to understand and use agreement is an integral part of children’s linguistic development. In Romance languages,
this includes gender and number agreement between
the controller and attributive or predicative adjectives or participles.
We examine the development of this category in a
case where children’s task is complicated by syncretisms, multiple
paradigms, and unequal input distributions. Romansh Tuatschin
(Romance, Indo-European, Switzerland) presents children
with two distinct paradigms for attributive (masculine
and feminine only) and predicative (masculine, feminine, and
neuter/unmarked) contexts of adjective and participle use. The
masculine form in predicative use is the same as the neuter
form in attributive usage. Thus the masculine form in these two
paradigms differs. This could be challenging for the language
learner. The distribution of these forms is heavily skewed towards
the neuter in predicative contexts but balanced in attributives.
Examining production errors in children between
2;0 and 4;3, we evaluate the effects of frequency and syncretism
and find that error-rate is affected by skewed distributions
and less affected by syncretisms. This demonstrates
the strong effect of input distributions on first language acquisition.
Keywords: language development; agreement marking; frequency
distributions
The acquisition of ergative case in Chintang
No full textThe acquisition of ergative marking in Chintang (Sino-Tibetan, Nepal) seems challenging: the marker covers several functions but is rare in discourse because of NP ellipsis and syntactic constraints. Based on a longitudinal corpus of four children, we find that children master the ergative only after age 4. Earlier usage tends to be limited to restricted lexical environments, and for one child also slightly biased to the agent function (which is the most frequent function). In addition we find a linear increase in spontaneous usage, accompanied by a decrease of usages where the child models her usage on an immediately preceding usage by an adult. This suggests that ergative acquisition chiefly relies on imitating and extracting input patterns and less on exploring generalizations
The Gothic threshold of Sabine Baring-Gould : a study of the Gothic fiction of a Victorian squarson
Get PDFThis thesis is a study of the Gothic fiction of Sabine Baring-Gould (1834-
1924), with particular attention given to Baring-Gould’s roles as squire and parson. I
have chosen to analyze two of Baring-Gould’s Gothic works, the novel Mehalah
(1880) and the novella Margery of Quether (1884), both which allow a particularly
profitable examination of the influence of Baring-Gould’s roles on his fiction.
In studying these texts I apply my theory of Gothic fiction as a particularly
modern genre built upon a "Gothic threshold," a meeting point of extreme opposites
which ambivalently contrasts and merges the categories of the modern and the
medieval.
In the first chapter I describe how Baring-Gould’s unique Hegelian-influenced
Tractarian philosophy influenced his creation of the dialectical setting of Mehalah. I
argue that because of this influence Mehalah should be recognized as a significant
contribution to the literature of the Oxford Movement.
In the second chapter I argue that Mehalah’s historical setting in the time of
the French Revolution and the influence of Wuthering Heights reinforce Mehalah’s
use of the “Gothic threshold” structure and contribute to its theme of ambivalent
progress.
In the third chapter I discuss the influence of Baring-Gould’s sermon-writing
on Mehalah and consider connections between Baring-Gould’s role as parson and the
novel’s botched marriage theme.
In the final chapter I discuss Margery of Quether as an innovation in the
Gothic and vampire tradition as perhaps the only Gothic work that directly dramatizes
the Land Law debate and presents that debate as a "Gothic" contest. I argue that
Margery channels Baring-Gould’s tensions as a landowner.
In the conclusion I argue that Mehalah and Margery display Baring-Gould’s
technique of constructing miniature Gothic battles that relate to larger confrontations,
and that the ultimate terror presented in these works is the conclusion of the battle
between ancient and modern forces
Planwirtschaft 2.0: Rezension zu "Die unsichtbare Hand des Plans. Koordination und Kalkül im digitalen Kapitalismus" von Timo Daum und Sabine Nuss (Hg.)
Get PDFTimo Daum, Sabine Nuss (Hrsg.): Die unsichtbare Hand des Plans: Koordination und Kalkül im digitalen Kapitalismus. Berlin: Karl Dietz 2021. 978-3-320-02382-
Lepidopterofauna associada à Psidium cattleianum Sabine (Myrtaceae)
Get PDFResumo: A ordem Lepidoptera possui 160.000 espécies entre borboletas e mariposas, e em levantamento bibliográfico sobre a entomofauna de Lepidoptera relacionada ao araçazeiro, Psidium cattleianum Sabine, evidenciou-se a carência de informações a este respeito, justificando o presente estudo, cujo objetivo geral foi levantar os lepidópteros relacionados a esta planta e associar dados da biologia e morfologia dos imaturos das diferentes espécies com descrições, ilustrações e fotografias. O estudo foi realizado na região de Curitiba e arredores onde exemplares de ovos, larvas e/ou pupas foram coletados. Em laboratório esses indivíduos foram observados, acompanhados em seu desenvolvimento, fotografados e identificados. Algumas estruturas foram evidenciadas com a técnica de microscopia eletrônica de varredura. No levantamento foram identificadas 13 espécies distribuídas em 5 superfamílias e 7 famílias: Papilionoidea: Riodinidae, Euselasiinae: Euselasia hygenius occulta Stichel, 1919 e Euselasia eucerus Hewitson, 1872; Hesperioidea: Hesperiidae, Pyrginae: Phocides polybius phanias (Burmeister, 1880); Cossoidea: Limacodidae: Miresa clarissa (Stoll, 1790); Noctuoidea, Noctuidae: Nolinae: Nola rodea Schaus, 1898, Arctiinae: Idalus agastus Dyar, 1910 e Pelochyta cinerea Walker, 1855, Lymantriinae: Sarsina violascens (Herrich-Schäffer, 1856) e Hadeninae: Spodoptera frugiperda (Smith & Abbot, 1797). Bombycoidea: Mimallonidae, Mimalloninae: Mimallo amilia (Stoll, 1780) e Lacosominae: Trogoptera excavata (Walker, 1855); Apatelodidae, Apatelodinae: Apatelodes sericea Schaus, 1896; Saturniidae, Hemileucinae: Dirphiopsis multicolor (Walker, 1855)
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De Lingua Sabina: A Reappraisal of the Sabine Glosses
Get PDFThis thesis offers a reappraisal of the Sabine glosses through the analysis of thirty-nine words, all glossed explicitly as Sabine in ancient sources ranging from the first century BCE to the sixth century CE.
The study of the Sabine glosses found in ancient grammarians and antiquarians goes back to the beginnings of Italic scholarship. Over time, two positions on the Sabine glosses have crystallised: (a) the Sabine glosses are evidence of a personal obsession of the Republican author Varro, in whose work many Sabine glosses survive, and (b) the Sabine glosses are true remnants of a single language of which little or no epigraphic evidence has survived.
By using the neogrammarian observation that sound-change is regular and exceptionless, it is possible to ascertain whether or not the Sabine glosses are likely to be from the same language. This thesis finds that the sound-changes undergone by the Sabine glosses show no broad agreement. The developments are characteristic of different languages – Latin, Faliscan and various Sabellic languages – and many changes are mutually exclusive. This consequently throws doubt on the assertion that the Sabine glosses are all taken from one language. Instead, the glosses should be seen as part of a discourse of the relationships between Romans, Sabines and Sabellic-speaking peoples.
During the Republic, Sabines were central to Roman myth, historiography and political rhetoric. As the Sabines were a distinct people in the Roman foundation myths, but were largely Romanised in the Republican present, they became a convenient bridge between Rome and the Sabellic-speaking peoples of Central and Southern Italy, to whom Greek and Roman writers ascribed myths tracing origin back to the Sabines. This continued into the Empire, when emperors such as Claudius and Vespasian utilised their (supposed) Sabine heritage to gain ideological capital. In light of this, the phenomenon of Sabine glosses cannot be seen as one man’s interest, but as a means of reflecting on Rome’s relations with Sabellic-speaking Italy
KOMPARASI SEJARAH DAN ANALISIS TEKS SABINE SCHMIDTKE
No full textThis study looks at the numerous studies of Islamic theology conducted by Western nations since the early nineteenth century. They studied Muslim thinkers' writings and brought them to the West. Initially, the study of the manuscript was general in nature, but later thinkers narrowed it down to a specific study. Sabine Schmidtke is a modern Orientalist who specializes in manuscripts of Islamic theology, particularly Mu'tazilah theology. In this study, the author employs the library research method to examine Sabine Schmidtke's books and journals on the relationship between Jewish Karaites, Shia theology and Mu'tazilah theology. Based on the author's research, Sabine's comparative historical and textual studies have revealed that the Shia school of thought and the Jewish Karaites sect have adopted Mu'tazilah thought, specifically the thought of Abu al-Husayn al-Basri. They not only adopted ideas, but they also copied and preserved writings found in Yemen in the form of manuscripts.
Keywords: Sabine Schmidtke, Jewish Karaites, Mu'tazilah
An in-silico look at alternative battery materials : using combined quantum chemical and molecular dynamics approaches to determine physicochemical properties of novel battery materials
No full textauthor: Sabine U. Lerch, BScMasterarbeit University of Innsbruck 202
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