scholarly journals The Importance of Accuracy in the Use of Grammatical Terms and Concepts in the Description of the Distinctive Properties of Plains Algonquian Languages

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 6-38
Author(s):  
Avelino Corral Esteban
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
Comparative Perspective ◽  
Native American Languages ◽  
Distinctive Features ◽  
University Of Oxford ◽  
European Languages ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The University ◽  
White Clay

The subject of this paper was inspired by my collaboration on a project involving the long-term histories of grammatical traditions led by Dr. Philomen Probert at the University of Oxford. Owing to my interest in linguistic typology and the study of the syntax-semantics-pragmatics interface in a number of languages,  – especially Native American languages, which differ in many respects from Indo-European languages,  –, I have observed that some languages cannot be accurately described if we use the grammatical terms and concepts commonly applied to the analysis of extensively studied languages such as English, Spanish or French, as certain grammatical properties of one language may not be equivalent to those of another and, consequently, require a different treatment. Thus, firstly, by adopting a holistic comparative perspective deriving from all areas of grammar, I aim to reveal the distinctive features that Plains Algonquian languages such as Cheyenne / Tsėhésenėstsestȯtse (Montana and Oklahoma, USA), Blackfoot / Siksiká, Kainai, and Pikani, (Montana, USA; Alberta, Canada), Arapaho / Hinóno´eitíít (Wyoming and Oklahoma, USA), and Gros Ventre / White Clay or Atsina / Aaniiih (Montana, USA) display when compared with Indo-European languages such as English, Spanish, French or German. The subsequent examination of these data will provide examples of terms and concepts that are typically used in traditional grammatical descriptions, but that do not serve to characterize the grammar of these Native American languages accurately. Finally, I will attempt to propose alternative terms and concepts that might describe the distinctive grammatical properties exhibited by these languages more adequately.

The Long-Term Effects of Steroid Contraceptives

1970 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 367-389 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Doll
Keyword(s):  
Editorial Note ◽  
London School ◽  
Long Term Effects ◽  
University Of Oxford ◽  
Current Controversy ◽  
Special Knowledge ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The University ◽  
Regius Professor

Editorial noteThe Twelfth Oliver Bird Lecture was delivered by Professor Richard Doll, Regius Professor of Medicine in the University of Oxford, at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine on 19th March 1970. This was the last lecture to be given under the auspices of the Oliver Bird Trust, an account of which starts on page 359. Professor Doll was formerly Director of the MRC Unit of Medical Statistics, in which capacity he had exceptional experience in assessing the significance of changes in the incidences of abnormal conditions. The subject of his lecture was therefore highly appropriate to his special knowledge, as well as to current controversy and to the series of Oliver Bird lectures. The Journal of Biosocial Science is glad to publish this authoritative exposition of a most important problem.

scholarly journals John Rodney Quayle. 18 November 1926 — 26 February 2006

2015 ◽  
Vol 61 ◽  
pp. 331-349 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Anthony
Keyword(s):  
Cell Metabolism ◽  
Carbon Assimilation ◽  
New Techniques ◽  
Rigorous Approach ◽  
University Of Oxford ◽  
Vice Chancellor ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The University ◽  
Short Time ◽  
Early Training

J. Rodney Quayle was an outstanding microbial biochemist whose early training in pure chemistry was coupled with rigorous enzymology and experience in the relatively new techniques of using radioactive 14 C compounds in the study of metabolic pathways. These he used to investigate and elucidate the pathways of carbon assimilation during microbial growth on compounds with a single carbon atom such as methane and methanol. When he started, little was known about these organisms (methylotrophs), which, largely as a result of his own work and the work inspired by him, have formed the subject of regular international symposia over a period of more than 40 years. After a short time working in Melvin Calvin’s laboratory in California and a very fruitful period in Hans Krebs’s Unit for Research in Cell Metabolism in the University of Oxford he moved for the next 20 years to the University of Sheffield, after which he became a highly successful and popular Vice-Chancellor at the University of Bath. His rigorous approach to his subject, his generosity and inspiration made him a much revered and much loved father figure to generations of microbial biochemists.

scholarly journals From sedentary and physical inactive behaviors to the Race Across America (RAAM): a case report

2019 ◽  
Vol 67 (4) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Case Report ◽  
Psychological Health ◽  
Nursing Student ◽  
Opposite Effect ◽  
Specific Training ◽  
Specific Context ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The University ◽  
Health Parameters

This case report presents the evolution of physiological and psychological health parameters of a former sedentary and physically inactive nursing student during an 18 months period (three academic semesters), during which she first took part to a one-semester institutional physical activity (PA) program offered by her University, before being selected to participate in relay to the Race Across America (RAAM) with a team of the University. The four months before the RAAM, she followed a cycling specific training program. After the RAAM, she was followed-up the next eight months. Results show that each step of the study had an important impact on health parameters of the subject and that sedentary and physical inactive behaviors are not irreversible. Institutional PA program, including training education in addition to concurrent strength and endurance training could lead to physiological and psychological health improvements. Moreover, in some individuals organising a challenge might contribute to improve motivation and long-term adherence to PA participation, while in others this could have the opposite effect. An individualised approach should be considered in future interventions aiming to improve PA promotion. Finally, in the specific context of a University of Health Sciences, this kind of initiative could positively influence the general population’s health, by educating students as actors in PA promotion.

scholarly journals Development and approbation of the methodology for determining the individual negotiating style

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 92-104
Author(s):  
G.U. Soldatova ◽  
A.F. Gasimov
Keyword(s):  
Problem Solving ◽  
Factor Structure ◽  
Reliability And Validity ◽  
Psychometric Evaluation ◽  
Negotiation Process ◽  
Distinctive Features ◽  
Negotiation Style ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Individual

The article presents the results of development and approbation of the method for determining the negotiation style of the personality. The methodology is based on the idea of the presence of integrative and distributive styles of negotiation. Among the distinctive features of the integrative style areorientation on collective problem solving, achieving win-win solutions, establishing a productive interaction. The distributive style is characterized by the orientation of the subject on maximizing of his own profit, often to the detriment of another, the lack of focus on long-term collaboration, the perception of the partner as a method of reaching his own goals. The approbation has been conducted on a sample of 776 people. A three-component factor structure, including such scales as “Distributive style”, “Integrative style/partner oriented” and “Integrative style /situation oriented”, has been allocated. The data obtained during the psychometric evaluation of the method indicate its consistency, reliability and validity, which allows to make a conclusion on the effectiveness of the method and the possibility to use it in the studies of the peculiarities of the negotiation process.

Rodney Howard Hilton 1916–2002

2005 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Dyer
Keyword(s):  
Social History ◽  
Communist Party ◽  
Karl Marx ◽  
Class Conflict ◽  
University Of Oxford ◽  
International Reputation ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The University ◽  
Foreign Ideas

Rodney Howard Hilton (1916–2002), a Fellow of the British Academy, was born in Middleton, England, to John James Hilton and Anne Howard Hilton. As a history undergraduate between 1935 and 1938, Hilton was attracted to the medieval period by the teaching of two outstanding Balliol scholars, Vivian Galbraith and Richard Southern. At the University of Oxford, he was influenced by ‘foreign ideas’ and joined the Communist Party. By 1956, Hilton had established an international reputation as an authority on the medieval economy in general, and in particular had put forward new ideas about social class, conflict, the crisis on feudalism, and the origins of capitalism. He was inspired by the writings of Karl Marx, Nikolai Lenin, and their more recent disciples, and applied their ideas. A constant theme running through all Hilton’s work was his commitment to the study of localities. He had a major role in making the subject of medieval economic and social history a lively field of enquiry and debate, which is a legacy that continues into the new century.

The consciousness of visual experience

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Seokman Kang
Keyword(s):  
Visual Experience ◽  
Phenomenal Character ◽  
Mental States ◽  
University Of Missouri ◽  
Distinctive Features ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The University ◽  
In Virtue Of ◽  
Alex Byrne

[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] "This monograph mainly concerns two distinctive features of visual experience. First, visual experience has its own phenomenal dimension. Following the familiar terminology in the literature, I refer to this unique experiential feature as phenomenal character. The phenomenal character of a visual experience is typically taken to be the sui generis property that it has in virtue of being a particular kind of conscious mental state. As Thomas Nagel once put it, 'ocean organism has conscious mental states if and only if there is something that it is like to be that organism--something it is like for the organism' (1974, p. 436). Since then, the phenomenal character of an experience has often been construed as a subjective feel of some sort that manifests itself to the subject when he undergoes the experience that carries it. Alex Byrne thus proposes that 'the phenomenal character of an experience e is a property, specifically a property of e: that property that types e according to what it's like to undergo e' (2002)."--Chapter 1.

Oliver Sutton, Bishop of Lincoln, and the University of Oxford

1949 ◽  
Vol 31 ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
R. M. T. Hill
Keyword(s):  
Thirteenth Century ◽  
University Of Oxford ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The University

I have chosen as the subject of this paper a study of the relations of Oliver Sutton, bishop of Lincoln from 1280 to 1299, with the University of Oxford, and I should like to begin with a quotation from the work of one of the great medievalists of our generation. In his book, Henry III and the Lord Edward, Sir Maurice Powicke says: ‘It is a great pity that we know so little about these people.’ That is profoundly true. Many of the inhabitants of thirteenth-century history are little more than names to us. We know a few facts about the chancellors of Oxford at this period, and the information that we can gain about Sutton is slight enough. Yet I think that sufficient material has survived to enable us to find out something about his dealings with the university and to understand from them what kind of a man he was.

Sapir-Whorf hypothesis

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
John A. Lucy
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
Linguistic Relativity ◽  
Native American Languages ◽  
European Languages ◽  
The World ◽  
The Way ◽  
Edward Sapir

The Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis is a widely used label for the linguistic relativity hypothesis, that is, the proposal that the particular language we speak shapes the way we think about the world. The label derives from the names of American anthropological linguists Edward Sapir and Benjamin Lee Whorf, who persuasively argued for this idea during the 1930s and 1940s – although they never actually characterized their ideas as an ’hypothesis’. In contrast to earlier European scholarship concerned with linguistic relativity, their approach was distinguished by first-hand experience with native American languages and rejection of claims for the superiority of European languages.

scholarly journals Terms anf Their Translation for Museum Labels

2002 ◽  
Vol 39 (4) ◽  
pp. 774-785
Author(s):  
Marilyn Gill
Keyword(s):  
Fine Arts ◽  
The Other ◽  
Practical Training ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Maximum Information ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Museum Of Fine Arts ◽  
The University ◽  
Teaching Outcomes

Abstract With the development in France of both general and specialized museums, and the growing cultural and touristic exchanges between countries, access to their information is becoming increasingly important. The aim of a long term research project of the English Linguistics Department of the University of Franche-Comté is to translate the French labels of a classified museum (the Museum of Fine Arts and Archeology of Besançon) into English and give practical training in terminology and translation to third year English for Special Purposes students. To do this, two different bilingual lexicons have to be created: one of the repetitive terms used by the Museum to describe the exhibits, i.e. museological terms, and the other of the subject of the label, i.e. in 1993 Egyptology. The theoretical problems and practical solutions concerning the compilation of highly specific bilingual lexicons, the translation of maximum information telegraphic style texts and the choice of specialized terms to be used for a general museum public of all ages as well as the teaching outcomes of such a project are discussed.

Pylos and Sphacteria

1896 ◽  
Vol 16 ◽  
pp. 55-76 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ronald M. Burrows
Keyword(s):  
Limited Area ◽  
Documentary Evidence ◽  
Detailed Survey ◽  
University Of Oxford ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The University

It is with some diffidence that I publish the following paper. It is indeed the result of considerable study of the literature of the subject, and of the best of a week's work on the spot last autumn. But unfortunately I never expected, when I went to Pylos, that I should have so much to say about it, and I took with me neither leave to excavate, nor appliances for measurements and photography. I feel therefore that my views can scarcely in the nature of things carry with them the same weight as those which Mr. Grundy has based on the detailed survey which he conducted under the auspices of the University of Oxford a week or two before my visit. I am afraid our conclusions on certain points may prove to differ. My documentary evidence is at present non-existent, and my measurements are one and all rough and approximate. I can only ask Mr. Grundy and the reader to remember that I spent more than forty hours exploring the ground, and that, as survey work was unhappily out of the question, I had thus ample time to form an opinion on the topography of what is after all a very limited area.

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