1,720,993 research outputs found
Relative clauses and genitive constructions in Semitic
No full textThis volume is the outcome of two workshops held at the University of Salford, April 18th 2007 and April 7th and 8th 2008. The first of these, Relative clauses and attribution in Semitic, coincided with Jan Retsö’s tenure as University Campus Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Salford February–April 2007. During this period, Jan pursued research on typological and diachronic aspects of relative clause marking in the Semitic languages. From discussions held at this time, it became increasingly clear that it would be fruitful to compare relative clause marking with two other noun phrase syntagms – genitive construction and adjectival attribution. Within the Semitic domain, these three syntagms exhibit both common and divergent syntactic, morphological and semantic properties. This raises interesting questions about typology and diachrony, on the one hand, and how to account for these syntagms within various linguistic models, on the other. In order to stimulate new thinking on these research questions, we decided to invite several internationally renowned scholars on extant and extinct Semitic languages to a one-day workshop at the University of Salford. At this first workshop, eight speakers addressed issues relating to relative clauses and adjectival attribution in eight languages and dialect groups, viz. Neo-Aramaic, Standard Arabic, the modern Arabic dialects of Sudan and south-western Saudi Arabia, Akkadian, Geez, Biblical Hebrew, Sabaean and Syriac. In discussions following this workshop, it was agreed that a second workshop be held on comparative and diachronic aspects of genitive constructions in Semitic; it was proposed that this workshop, entitled Genitive constructions in Semitic: Comparative and diachronic perspectives, be held over two days and be extended to include twelve speakers in order to cover a greater range of the modern Semitic languages, particularly Ethio-Semitic, Modern Hebrew and Modern South Arabian. The papers in this volume represent different descriptive and theoretical ways of linguistic thinking – generativist (Fassi-Fehri, Glinert, Yri), typology and diachrony (Eksell, Ouhalla, Retsö), and data-oriented descriptive analyses with different theoretical presuppositions (Arnold, Dickins, Edzard, Khan, Kuty, Naïm, Watson). The relative dominance of the descriptivist approach reflects both a solid tradition in Semitic studies, which has been strongly data-oriented, and the necessity of pres-enting a rich store of data in order to prepare the ground for sound linguistic analysis. The papers have been arranged according to the geographical distribution of the Semitic languages examined. The volume begins with three papers having a general and comparative Semitic perspective; these are followed by papers dealing with North Semitic (Western and Eastern Neo-Aramaic, Classical Aramaic and Modern Hebrew), then Arabic (Standard Arabic, various extant and extinct Arabic dialects), and finally South Semitic (Amharic and Mehri). This is not the end of the story. In discussions during the workshops which gave rise to these papers, it became clear that there is a need to further investigate the third noun phrase category, adjectival attribution, and in the case of all three noun phrase categories to examine the role of definiteness and the animacy hierarchy, notions raised in some of the papers in this volume. Further research will examine the various ways in which these noun phrase categories interact with one anothe
Dialects of the Arabian Peninsula
No full textThis article examines some of the key phonological and morphological features exhibited by Arabic dialects of the Arabian Peninsula. These include features exclusive to the Peninsula such as the k-perfect attested in dialects of the western Yemeni mountain range, and the nasal definite article, and features also attested to a greater or lesser extent outside the Peninsula. Recent research on Peninsula dialects has challenged traditional statements made about Arabic dialectology, including claims about the Bedouin sedentary dichotomy, the lateral *d, and the lack of distinction between *d and *d#,
Relative clauses and genitive constructions in Semitic
No full textThis volume is the outcome of two workshops held at the University of Salford, April 18th 2007 and April 7th and 8th 2008. The first of these, Relative clauses and attribution in Semitic, coincided with Jan Retsö’s tenure as University Campus Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Salford February–April 2007. During this period, Jan pursued research on typological and diachronic aspects of relative clause marking in the Semitic languages. From discussions held at this time, it became increasingly clear that it would be fruitful to compare relative clause marking with two other noun phrase syntagms – genitive construction and adjectival attribution. Within the Semitic domain, these three syntagms exhibit both common and divergent syntactic, morphological and semantic properties. This raises interesting questions about typology and diachrony, on the one hand, and how to account for these syntagms within various linguistic models, on the other. In order to stimulate new thinking on these research questions, we decided to invite several internationally renowned scholars on extant and extinct Semitic languages to a one-day workshop at the University of Salford. At this first workshop, eight speakers addressed issues relating to relative clauses and adjectival attribution in eight languages and dialect groups, viz. Neo-Aramaic, Standard Arabic, the modern Arabic dialects of Sudan and south-western Saudi Arabia, Akkadian, Geez, Biblical Hebrew, Sabaean and Syriac. In discussions following this workshop, it was agreed that a second workshop be held on comparative and diachronic aspects of genitive constructions in Semitic; it was proposed that this workshop, entitled Genitive constructions in Semitic: Comparative and diachronic perspectives, be held over two days and be extended to include twelve speakers in order to cover a greater range of the modern Semitic languages, particularly Ethio-Semitic, Modern Hebrew and Modern South Arabian. The papers in this volume represent different descriptive and theoretical ways of linguistic thinking – generativist (Fassi-Fehri, Glinert, Yri), typology and diachrony (Eksell, Ouhalla, Retsö), and data-oriented descriptive analyses with different theoretical presuppositions (Arnold, Dickins, Edzard, Khan, Kuty, Naïm, Watson). The relative dominance of the descriptivist approach reflects both a solid tradition in Semitic studies, which has been strongly data-oriented, and the necessity of pres-enting a rich store of data in order to prepare the ground for sound linguistic analysis. The papers have been arranged according to the geographical distribution of the Semitic languages examined. The volume begins with three papers having a general and comparative Semitic perspective; these are followed by papers dealing with North Semitic (Western and Eastern Neo-Aramaic, Classical Aramaic and Modern Hebrew), then Arabic (Standard Arabic, various extant and extinct Arabic dialects), and finally South Semitic (Amharic and Mehri).This is not the end of the story. In discussions during the workshops which gave rise to these papers, it became clear that there is a need to further investigate the third noun phrase category, adjectival attribution, and in the case of all three noun phrase categories to examine the role of definiteness and the animacy hierarchy, notions raised in some of the papers in this volume. Further research will examine the various ways in which these noun phrase categories interact with one another.Jan RetsöJanet C.E. Watso
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
Grammar as a window onto Arabic humanism: A collection of articles in honour of Michael G. Carter
No full textVariations 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
Mehri-Texte aus der jemenitischen Sharqiyyah (Mehri texts from the eastern Yemeni province)
No full text- …
