The Bantu languages are in some sense remarkably uniform (SVO basic word order, noun classes, verbal morphology), but this extensive language family also show a wealth of morphosyntactic variation. Two core areas in which such variation is attested are subject and object agreement. The book explores the variation in Bantu subject and object marking on the basis of data from 75 Bantu languages, …
This concise bibliography on Sign Languages was compiled on the occasion of the 20th international Congress of Linguists in Cape Town, South Africa, in July 2018. The selection of titles is drawn from the Linguistic Bibliography and gives an overview of scholarship on Sign language over the past 10 years. The introduction is by Myriam Vermeerbergen (KU Leuven & Stellenbosch University) and Anna…
This concise bibliography on South-African Languages and Linguistics was compiled on the occasion of the 20th International Congress of Linguists in Cape Town, South Africa, in July 2018. The selection of titles is drawn from the Linguistic Bibliography and gives an overview of scholarship on South African language studies over the past 10 years.
This volume focuses on the various Habsburg courts and households of the two branches of the dynasty that arose following the division of the territories originally held by Charles V. The authors trace the connections between these courtly communities regardless of their standing or composition, exposing the underlying network they formed. By cutting across the traditional division in the histo…
This book is an Open Access Publication. The Guidelines for Trustworthy AI developed by the European Commission High-Level Expert Group on AI is a framework that has been developed to promote and achieve the trustworthiness of AI systems. It provides seven ethical principles that can be operationalised in socio-technical systems to realise responsible AI design and deployment. The content of th…
Buku ini memperkenalkan QPLEX, suatu kerangka komputasional yang kuat yang dirancang untuk memodelkan dan menganalisis sistem stokastik non-stasioner dengan ruang keadaan yang besar. Metodologi ini unggul dalam menghasilkan distribusi perkiraan kinerja sistem secara cepat dan akurat seiring waktu, menawarkan alat yang tangguh untuk memahami dinamika sistem semacam itu. QPLEX mengatasi kutukan d…
This is an open access book. With the unprovoked Russian invasion of Ukraine, European security has been put on high alert. The implications of the Russian military invasion are many and difficult to grasp in full. However, the need for greater European strategic autonomy appears increasingly evident. The book argues that strategic autonomy may be reached—also in the short run—if differenti…
Buku akses terbuka ini menyediakan antropologi yang menggugah pemikiran yang didasarkan pada etnografi komparatif. Teori ini menangkap momen sejarah saat ini, tren jangka panjang yang membawa kita ke sini, dan prospek untuk masa depan yang manusiawi. Pengalaman kompleksitas yang mencirikan masyarakat informasi yang terglobalisasi memicu simplex. Respon unidimensional ini yang berperan penting d…
This book chronicles the life and times of tribal leader Mujāhid Ḥaydar, scion of a prominent local dynasty, and his agency in highland Yemen’s political conflicts from the 1970s to the early 2000s. When the political elites of the Ṣāliḥ regime murder his father and his elder brothers, he is forced to exact revenge and lead his tribe through dramatic vicissitudes that culminate in the…
In diesem Open Access-Buch liefern Katja Kuhn und Patrick Fekete eine hilfreiche Unterstützung zur erfolgreichen Entwicklung und Realisierung deutsch-chinesischer Studienprogramme. Basierend auf einer detaillierten Beschreibung des chinesischen Bildungssystems sowie einer Analyse der wirtschaftlichen, politischen, kulturellen und sozialen Rahmenbedingungen werden die wesentlichen Züge sowie E…