scholarly journals Trans-Zab Jewish Neo-Aramaic

2008 ◽  
Vol 71 (3) ◽  
pp. 409-431 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hezy Mutzafi
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Major Group ◽  
Large Set ◽  
South Eastern ◽  
North Eastern ◽  
Group A ◽  
Parallel Features

AbstractThe present article seeks to describe a major group of Jewish North-Eastern Neo-Aramaic (NENA) dialects located across the Great Zab river in the eastern and south-eastern parts of the dialectological map of NENA, hence the term “Trans-Zab Jewish Neo-Aramaic” (“Trans-Zab”, for short) chosen for this dialect group. A large set of phonological, morphophonological, morphological and lexical innovations, shared by all members of this group, is presented. Each of the Trans-Zab features is compared with contrastive parallel features in other, selected NENA varieties. Finally, an internal classification of Trans-Zab into three subdivisions is proposed, based on a comparison of three respective paradigms of the positive present copula.

Further Jewish Neo-Aramaic Innovations

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 145-181
Author(s):  
Hezy Mutzafi
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Diffusion Of Innovations ◽  
Genetic Classification ◽  
Regional Features ◽  
Language Structure ◽  
New Findings ◽  
North Eastern ◽  
Great Heterogeneity

AbstractThe present article presents new findings related to Jewish Neo-Aramaic (JNA) innovations in the framework of North-Eastern Neo-Aramaic (NENA). The dialectal spectrum ofJNAis so wide and variegated, that some geographically distantJNAvarieties are markedly different from each other on all levels of language structure. Despite this great heterogeneity, theJNAdialects share supra-regional features that bind these varieties together to the exclusion of all, or the vast majority of, the ChristianNENA(C.NENA) dialects. There appear to be no grounds, however, for a genetic classification ofNENAinto two principal branches,JNAandC.NENA. Distinct Jewish versus ChristianNENAisoglosses have, rather, most plausibly emerged by gradual diffusion of innovations throughoutNENA-speaking communities of the same confession (Jewish or Christian), while skipping geographically adjacent, but religiously distinct,NENA-speaking communities.

„A little Drama“ (G. M. Tucker)

2019 ◽  
Vol 63 (2) ◽  
pp. 195-219
Author(s):  
Alessandro Casagrande
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Narrative Analysis ◽  
Literary Form ◽  
Third Party ◽  
Abrupt Shift ◽  
Mediated Discourse ◽  
Contextual Integration

Abstract The use of a narrative imperfect in Am 7:10–17 after 7:1–9 and the abrupt shift to 8:1–3 frequently compelled critics to determine its literary form. For diachronic studies defining classifications include ‘third-party report’ and ‘apophthegma’. By contrast, synchronic studies emphasize the contextual integration of Am 7:10–17 and concentrate on a narrative analysis. Within this focus it is striking, that the passage is often associated with a ‘drama’ but without assessing the methodological ramifications of such a claim. The present article takes this ‘synchronic gap’ up and relates it to approaches to view drama as a possible genre for prophetic books. In doing so, a reading of Am 7:10–17 as part of a narrator-mediated discourse using a dramatic mode shows that the passage can be deemed an entrance with three speeches integrated into the wider context of 7:1–8:3. Particularly the classification of 7:10a, 12aα, 14aα as narrator’s discourse using a dramatic mode makes this claim plausible.

scholarly journals Trauma, Memory and Landscape in Queensland: Women Writing ‘a New Alphabet of Moss and Water’

2012 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 205-216 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jessica Gildersleeve
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Present Article ◽  
Sense Of Place ◽  
Strong Sense ◽  
Traumatic Experience ◽  
The South ◽  
Southern States ◽  
South Eastern ◽  
Limited Space ◽  
Trauma Memory

The cultural association of Queensland with a condition of imagination or unreality has a strong history. Queensland has always ‘retained much of its quality as an abstraction, an idea’, asserts Thea Astley in her famous essay on the state's identity (Astley 1976: 263). In one of the most quoted descriptions of Queensland's literary representation, Pat Buckridge draws attention to its ‘othering’, suggesting that Queensland possesses ‘a different sense of distance, different architecture, a different apprehension of time, a distinctive preoccupation with personal eccentricity, and . . . a strong sense of cultural antitheses’ (1976: 30). Rosie Scott comes closest to the concerns of this present article when she asserts that this so-called difference ‘is definitely partly to do with the landscape. In Brisbane, for instance, the rickety old wooden Queenslanders drenched in bougainvillea, the palms, the astounding number of birds even in Red Hill where I lived, the jacarandas, are all unique in Australia’ (quoted in Sheahan-Bright and Glover 2002: xv). For Vivienne Muller, Buckridge's ‘cultural antitheses’ are most clearly expressed in precisely this interpretation of Queensland as a place somewhere between imagined wilderness and paradise (2001: 72). Thus, as Gillian Whitlock suggests, such differences are primarily fictional constructs that feed ‘an image making process founded more on nationalist debates about city and bush, centre and periphery, the Southern states versus the Deep North than on any “real” sense of regionalism’ (quoted in Muller 2001: 80). Queensland, in this reading, is subject to the Orientalist discourse of an Australian national identity in which the so-called civilisation of the south-eastern urban capitals necessitates a dark ‘other’. I want to draw out this understanding of the landscape as it is imagined in Queensland women's writing. Gail Reekie (1994: 8) suggests that, ‘Women's sense of place, of region, is powerfully constructed by their marginality to History.’ These narratives do assert Queensland's ‘difference’, but as part of an articulation of psychological extremity experienced by those living on the edges of a simultaneously ideological and geographically limited space. The Queensland landscape, I argue, is thus used as both setting for and symbol of traumatic experience.

scholarly journals Genre of Bangla Music: A Machine Classification Learning Approach

2019 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 66-72
Author(s):  
Abhijit Bhowmik ◽  
AZM Ehtesham Chowdhury
Keyword(s):  
Classification Systems ◽  
Learning Approach ◽  
Large Set ◽  
Automated Classification ◽  
Classification Learning ◽  
Genre Classification ◽  
Machine Learning Approach ◽  
Music Databases ◽  
East Asian Language

The necessity for designing autonomous indexing tools to establish expressive and efficient means of describing musical media content is well recognized. Music genre classification systems are significant to manage and use music databases. This research paper proposes an enhanced method to automatically classify music into different genre using a machine learning approach and presents the insight and results of the application of the proposed scheme to the classification of a large set of The Bangla music content, a South-East Asian language rich with a variety of music genres developed over many centuries. Building upon musical feature extraction and decision-making techniques, we propose new features and procedures to achieve enhanced accuracy. We demonstrate the efficacy of the proposed method by extracting features from a dataset of hundreds of The Bangla music pieces and testing the automatic classification decisions. This is the first development of an automated classification technique applied specifically to the Bangla music to the best of our knowledge, while the superior accuracy of the method makes it universally applicable.

scholarly journals CLASSIFICATION OF ARTISTIC GLAZED CERAMICS OF DERBENT OF THE END VIII-X CENTURIES. (on the example of materials from excavations XXVII and XXXIII)

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 714-759
Author(s):  
Zuhra Z. Kuzeeva
Keyword(s):  
Large Set ◽  
Red Clay ◽  
Large Section ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Opaque Glaze ◽  
Clay Ceramics ◽  
The City ◽  
Household Ceramics ◽  
Archaeological Excavations

The article is devoted to the classification analysis of the glazed ceramics of Derbent, originating from the materials of archaeological excavations (excavations XXVII and XXXIII), carried out in 2014-2015. in the city. The chronological framework of the study was presumably determined by the end of the VIII-X centuries. The relevance of the topic is characterized by the importance of studying the glazed ceramics of Derbent as a source of a large set of information (historical, cultural and socio-economic interactions of Derbent with a wide range of countries of the Near and Far Abroad).Typology of glazed ceramics in Derbent at the end of the 8th-10th centuries is considered in the article on the basis of modern methodological developments based on three main approaches to the study of any ceramics: the study of technology together with the morphology and decor of the dishes. All investigated ceramics, consisting of fragments of rims, bodies, bases and handles of vessels, are included in one large Section - Household ceramics. This section includes three sections, which are based on the analysis of the clay color of the shard (red clay, brown clay, beige clay ceramics), which determines the technology for the production of dishes. Based on the presence or absence of engobe on ceramics, two subsections are allocated in each department. The next division is the groups that are formed according to the degree of transparency of the opaque glaze. There are three of them: ceramics with transparent, translucent, opaque (dull) glaze. Within some groups, four subgroups are additionally distinguished, determined by the color of the glaze. According to the peculiarities of the additional decor, the types (overglaze, underglaze ornament) and subtypes (painting, engraving, combination of painting with engraving, relief ornament) of ceramics are distinguished. Thus, the characteristics of the glazed ceramics of Derbent from these excavations include: Section, department, sub-department, group, subgroup, type, subtype.

scholarly journals On order and prohibition

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniël Van Olmen
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
First Principle ◽  
Linguistic Evidence ◽  
Constituent Order

Abstract The present article examines the claim in the literature that the negative first principle, i.e. the preference for the order negation-verb to verb-negation, is stronger in negative imperatives (or prohibitives) than in negative declaratives. To test this hypothesis, we develop – in contrast to earlier research – a systematic, three-way classification of languages, which is also operationalized as a ranking capturing the overall level of strength of the principle. This classification is applied to a genealogically and geographically balanced sample of 179 languages. In addition, we consider the role of several factors known to correlate with the position of negation – like its form, constituent order and areality. However, no cross-linguistic evidence is found for any difference in negation’s position between negative imperatives and negative declaratives. We therefore conclude that the hypothesis should be rejected.

scholarly journals Ground beetles (Carabidae) from slopes of Macošská stráň and Vilémovická stráň (Protected landscape area of Moravský kras, Czech Republic)

2011 ◽  
Vol 59 (3) ◽  
pp. 143-150 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jana Niedobová ◽  
Vladimír Hula ◽  
Pavla Šťastná
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Endangered Species ◽  
Threatened Species ◽  
Ground Beetles ◽  
Red List ◽  
The Other ◽  
Pitfall Traps ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Group A

Collecting of Carabidae was conducted using pitfall traps at four sites. The first two sites (T1 + T2) were at the slope of Macošská stráň and the other two sites (T3 + T4) at the slope of Vilémovická stráň. The study was done in 2008 and 2009. At Macošská stráň in 2008, 21 species of Carabidae with the total number of 228 individuals were found and in 2009, 18 species of the total number of 116 specimens were collected. At Vilémovická stráň in 2008, 22 species of Carabidae with the total number of 1977 specimens were found and in 2009, 21 species of the total number of 623 specimens were caught. In terms of classification of relictness, Macošská stráň in 2008 was dominated by species of adaptable group A (60%), species of eurytop group (E) were represented by 35% and of relic group (R) by 5%. In 2009, the same representation of species of groups A and E (47%) were found and the species of group R were represented by 6%. Vilémovická stráň in 2008 was dominated by species of group A (52%), species of group E were represented by 43% and of group R by 5%. In 2009 also dominated species of group A (54%), species of group E were represented by 41% and of group R by 5%. In the studied area we reported four endangered species of Carabidae protected by Law (No. 395/1992 Coll.) as amended, these were Calosoma auropunctatum (critically endangered), Brachinus crepitans, Carabus ullrichii and Cicindela campestris (endangered) and two species listed under the Red List of Threatened Species of the Czech Republic (Veselý et al., 2005). One of the species is listed as vulnerable (Calosoma auropunctatum) and one as near endangered (Carabus cancellatus). Another significant species found on the monitored sites was Aptinus bombarda.

scholarly journals A Novel Technique for Mapping the Vascularity of Labia Minora Prior to Labiaplasty: Cold Light Illumination

2018 ◽  
Vol 78 (08) ◽  
pp. 775-784 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aski Kaya ◽  
Ozan Dogan ◽  
Murat Yassa ◽  
Alper Basbug ◽  
Eray Çalışkan
Keyword(s):  
Light Source ◽  
Outer Surface ◽  
Descriptive Study ◽  
Light Illumination ◽  
Labia Minora ◽  
Novel Technique ◽  
Group A ◽  
The Right ◽  
Upper Third

Abstract Objective Aim of the study was to assess the feasibility of a novel technique to determine the vascularity of labia minora prior to labiaplasty. Methods A cold light source employed in laparoscopic procedures was used to illuminate the outer surface of the labia minora as described in this prospective descriptive study. Results Of the patients, 46.1% (n = 41) had upper third prominence, 36% (n = 32) had middle third prominence, and 18% (n = 16) had lower third prominence according to the Banwell classification of morphologies. Right labia minora width was 0 – 2 cm in 51.7% (n = 46), 2 – 4 cm in 47.2% (n = 42) and > 4 cm in 1.1% (n = 1) of cases. Left labia minora width was 0 – 2 cm in 52.8% (n = 47), 2 – 4 cm in 41.6% (n = 37) and > 4 cm in 5.6% (n = 5) of cases. The incidence of Anterior 2 and Posterior 1 vessels in the different morphologies were statistically significantly different (p = 0.007, p = 0.018). The Anterior 2 vessel was higher in the lower morphology group whereas the Posterior 1 vessel was higher in the upper morphology group. A central vessel was observed in 93.3% (n = 83) of patients in the left labium minus and the right labium minus. The incidence of the Posterior 1 vessel was significantly higher in the left labium minus than in the right labium minus (p = 0.021). Discussion This novel technique to assess labial vascularity using a cold light source could be very useful to reduce dehiscence by avoiding excessive resection of highly vascularized tissue. Most units can easily access a cold light source, which can be used to assess labial vascularity prior to labiaplasty.

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