This book examines the diverse prosody of compound nouns in Kansai Japanese, with a special focus on a class of compounds with particularly variable prosody, whose unique prosody is potentially endangered due to their structure and influence from Tokyo Japanese. These compounds serve as important evidence for recursion in prosodic structure in theories of the syntax-prosody interface, as they s…
The Aramaic Dead Sea Scrolls from Qumran have attracted increasing interest in recent years. These texts predate the “sectarian” Dead Sea scrolls, and they are contemporary with the youngest parts of the Hebrew Bible. They offer a unique glimpse into the situation before the biblical canons were closed. Their highly creative Jewish authors reshaped and rewrote biblical traditions to cope wi…
While recent years have been dominated by Covid-19 and now the war in Ukraine, we are witnessing numerous ongoing tragedies. The last few decades have seen a dramatic increase in freak weather events caused by climate change.
This open access book presents a catalogue of over one thousand indicators which can be used by cities' public administrators to monitor and evaluate social innovation action plans to support people-centred, collaborative or co-designed solutions to lower carbon emissions. Indicators are clustered according to a framework of social innovation solutions for climate neutrality at city level, deve…
During the past 50 years, theological libraries have confronted secularisation and religious pluralism, along with revolutionary technological developments that brought not only significant challenges but also unexpected opportunities to adopt new instruments for the transfer of knowledge through the automation and computerisation of libraries. This book shows how European theological libraries…
Buku akses terbuka ini mengkaji bagaimana komunitas ahli waris menggunakan hak keanggotaan dalam korporasi dan apakah hukum memperlakukan ahli waris sebagai pemegang saham tunggal atau sebagai sejumlah pemegang saham. Berdasarkan pemeriksaan terhadap proses pelaksanaan hak-hak ini, Philipp Kowalski mengembangkan argumen baru untuk mengkonfirmasi doktrin kepemilikan bersama, yang menurutnya sala…
Education: Fundamental human right or strategic tool in support of economic growth? How does commodity-dependence influence education policy and practice? What is the role of vocational training vis-à-vis university education in developing countries? Are MOOCs and Chinese cooperation a game changer for higher education in Africa? And how does student migration sit vis-à-vis the globalisation …
Mengapa kita mau percaya bahwa teknologi bisa membawa perang... tetapi tidak perdamaian?. PeaceTech: Transformasi Digital untuk Mengakhiri Perang adalah buku pertama di dunia yang membahas penggunaan inovasi teknologi untuk mendukung proses perdamaian dan transisi. Melalui narasi yang saling terkait dari kisah-kisah pribadi yang menangkap kompleksitas negosiasi perdamaian secara real-time, Bell…
Buku akses terbuka ini mengeksplorasi hubungan mendalam antara lingkungan, bahasa, dan integritas budaya, dengan fokus pada masyarakat Adat dari zaman modern awal hingga saat ini. Ini menggambarkan integrasi erat antara alam dan budaya melalui proses sejarah perubahan lingkungan di Amerika Utara, Tengah, dan Selatan serta pemeliharaan pengetahuan lokal melalui bahasa leluhur dan tradisi lisan. …
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