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Computational approaches to semantic change
Semantic change — how the meanings of words change over time — has preoccupied scholars since well before modern linguistics emerged in the late 19th and early 20th century, ushering in a new methodological turn in the study of language change. Compared to changes in sound and grammar, semantic change is the least understood. Ever since, the study of semantic change has progressed steadily,…
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- Vol. 6
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783961103126
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- Language Variation vol. 6
- Call Number
- 400 COM
Curriculum, Culture and Citizenship Education in Wales
This book explores how culture and citizenship are theorised, promoted and learned throughout schools in Wales. Following a brief history of Welsh education and a discussion of how contemporary cultural identity is theorised through citizenship education curricula, it illustrates how archaicapproaches to understanding cultural identity continue to undermine the development of culturally relevan…
- Edition
- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781137544438
- Collation
- XIII, 110
- Series Title
- Palgrave Studies in Global Citizenship Education and Democracy
- Call Number
- 323.6
Inequality and Growth: Patterns and Policy: Volume I: Concepts and Analysis
It was a part of the wisdom of mainstream economics that in the early stages of development inequality would rise but as growth persisted, it would, eventually, decline. Early evidence seemed to suggest that this pattern would be borne out. But, as time passed and growth persisted, inequality continued to grow, casting doubt on the received wisdom. The aim of this two-volume book is to analyze …
- Edition
- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-1-137-55453-6
- Collation
- XXIX, 256
- Series Title
- International Economic Association Series
- Call Number
- 330 INE
Corpus Linguistics and 17th-Century Prostitution : Computational Linguistics …
Corpus linguistics has much to offer history, being as both disciplines engage so heavily in analysis of large amounts of textual material.This book demonstrates the opportunities for exploring corpus linguistics as a method in historiography and the humanities and social sciences more generally. Focusing on the topic of prostitution in 17th-century England, it shows how corpus methods can assi…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781472506092
- Collation
- 272 halaman
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 400 MCE
Yorùbá Yé Mi : A Beginning Yorùbá Textbook
The Yorùbá Yé Mi textbook, combined with an open access, multi-media website, is an interactive, communicative, introductory Yorùbá program. It provides college/university students with basic listening, speaking, reading and writing skills of language learning in Yorùbá. It exposes the learner not only to Yorùbá language in meaningful situations but also to the culture of the Yorùbá-…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781937963026
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 400 MOS y
American Creoles : The Francophone Caribbean and the American South
The Francophone Caribbean and the American South are sites born of the plantation, the common matrix for the diverse nations and territories of the circum-Caribbean. This book takes as its premise that the basic configuration of the plantation, in terms of its physical layout and the social relations it created, was largely the same in the Caribbean and the American South. Essays written by lea…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781846317538
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- Francophone Postcolonial Studies
- Call Number
- 400 MUN a
Design Discourse : Composing and Revising Programs in Professional and Techni…
Design Discourse: Composing and Revising Programs in Professional and Technical Writing, edited by David Franke, Alex Reid and Anthony DiRenzo, addresses the complexities of developing professional and technical writing programs. The essays in the collection offer reflections on efforts to bridge two cultures — what the editors characterize as the "art and science of writing" — often by add…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781602351677
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 400 DES
The Ik language : Dictionary and grammar sketch
This book is a dictionary and grammar sketch of Ik, one of the three Kuliak (Rub) languages spoken in the beautiful Karamoja region of northeastern Uganda. It is the lexicographic sequel to A grammar of Ik (Icé-tód): Northeast Uganda’s last thriving Kuliak language (Schrock 2014). The present volume includes an Ik-English dictionary with roughly 8,700 entries, followed by a reversed English…
- Edition
- Vol. 1.0
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783944675961
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- African Language Grammars and Dictionaries 1
- Call Number
- 400 SCH i
Cognitive Disability Aesthetics : Visual Culture, Disability Representations,…
Cognitive Disability Aesthetics explores the invisibility of cognitive disability in theoretical, historical, social, and cultural contexts. Fraser's cutting edge research and analysis signals a second-wave in disability studies that prioritizes cognition. He expands upon previous research into physical disability representations and focuses on those disabilities that tend to be least visible i…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781487502331
- Collation
- 288
- Series Title
- Toronto Iberic
- Call Number
- 150 FRA c
Language Technologies for the Challenges of the Digital Age : 27th Internatio…
This open access volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 27th biennial conference of the German Society for Computational Linguistics and Language Technology, GSCL 2017, held in Berlin, Germany, in September 2017, which focused on language technologies for the digital age. The 16 full papers and 10 short papers included in the proceedings were carefully selected from 36 submissions. …
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9784431543275
- Collation
- XIII, 310 halaman
- Series Title
- Lecture Notes in Computer Science
- Call Number
- 400 LAN
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