All Outputs (182)

The Caliphate: A Pelican Introduction (2016)
Book
Kennedy, H. (2016). The Caliphate: A Pelican Introduction. Penguin

A unified dynamic account of auxiliary placement in Rangi (2016)
Journal Article
Gibson, H. (2016). A unified dynamic account of auxiliary placement in Rangi. Lingua: An International Review of General Linguistics, 184, 79-103. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lingua.2016.06.003

The Tanzanian Bantu language Rangi exhibits a comparatively and typologically unusual word order alternation in the future tense. Whilst declarative main clauses exhibit post-verbal auxiliary placement, the auxiliary appears pre-verbally in wh-questi... Read More about A unified dynamic account of auxiliary placement in Rangi.

Bunraku: Puppet Theatre (2016)
Book Chapter
Gotō, S. (2016). Bunraku: Puppet Theatre. In A History Of Japanese Theatre (155-183). Cambridge University Press

Jerusalem Between Segregation and Integration: Reading Urban Space through the Eyes of Justice Gad Frumkin (2016)
Book Chapter
Wallach, Y. (2016). Jerusalem Between Segregation and Integration: Reading Urban Space through the Eyes of Justice Gad Frumkin. In S. R. Goldstein-Sabbah, & H. L. Murre-Van Den Berg (Eds.), Modernity, Minority, and the Public Sphere: Jews and Christians in the Middle East (205-233). Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004323285_009

Bunraku Stage (2016)
Book Chapter
Cummings, A. (2016). Bunraku Stage. In J. Salz (Ed.), A History of Japanese Theatre (158-159). Cambridge University Press

Review of Shobna Nijhawan, Women and Girls in the Hindi Public Sphere: Periodical Literature in Colonial North India (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2012) (2016)
Journal Article
Lunn, D. (2016). Review of Shobna Nijhawan, Women and Girls in the Hindi Public Sphere: Periodical Literature in Colonial North India (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2012). South Asia Research, 36(2), 290-292. https://doi.org/10.1177/0262728016638624

Questions and answers in Lamjung Yolmo (2016)
Journal Article
Gawne, L. (2016). Questions and answers in Lamjung Yolmo. Journal of Pragmatics, 101, 31-53. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2016.04.002

Jewish Nationalism: On the Impossibility of Muslim Jews (2016)
Book Chapter
Wallach, Y. (2016). Jewish Nationalism: On the Impossibility of Muslim Jews. In J. Meri (Ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Muslim-Jewish Relations (331-350). Routledge

Diet and disease: transgressing boundaries between science and society - Understanding neglected diseases through the lens of cultural studies and anthropology (2016)
Journal Article
Asavarut, P., Norsworthy, P. J., Cook, J., Taylor-Robinson, S., & Harrison, R. (2016). Diet and disease: transgressing boundaries between science and society - Understanding neglected diseases through the lens of cultural studies and anthropology. Journal of Medical Humanities, 42(3), 181-183. https://doi.org/10.1136/medhum-2016-010893

An Evolution in Nollywood, Nigeria’s New Wave: A Conversation with Chris Eneaji (2016)
Journal Article
McCain, C. (2016). An Evolution in Nollywood, Nigeria’s New Wave: A Conversation with Chris Eneaji. Black camera, 7(2), 194-216. https://doi.org/10.2979/blackcamera.7.2.194

Graphological foregrounding in contemporary Yorùbá newspapers (2016)
Journal Article
Osunnuga, T. (2016). Graphological foregrounding in contemporary Yorùbá newspapers. Ihafa : a journal of African studies, 8(1), 54-72

the way and manner they exploit the paralinguistic resources of the language. The malleability of the language exploitation is achieved through the symbiotic relationship between the language structure and language function. Employing the theory of f... Read More about Graphological foregrounding in contemporary Yorùbá newspapers.

The evidence for Chinese *-r (2016)
Journal Article
Hill, N. W. (2016). The evidence for Chinese *-r. Bulletin of Chinese linguistics, 9(2), 190-204. https://doi.org/10.1163/2405478X-00902003

Starostin (1989) proposes that Old Chinese had a final *-r that later changed to -n (and sometimes -j). Baxter & Sagart (2014a) incorporate Starostin's proposal in their recent Old Chinese reconstructions. This essay attempts to assemble the evidence... Read More about The evidence for Chinese *-r.

A phonological history of Amdo Tibetan rhymes (2016)
Journal Article
Gong, X. (2016). A phonological history of Amdo Tibetan rhymes. Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 79(2), 347-374. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0041977X16000070

In this study, a reconstruction is offered for the phonetic evolution of rhymes from Old Tibetan to modern-day Amdo Tibetan dialects. The relevant sound changes are proposed, along with their relative chronological precedence and the dating of some s... Read More about A phonological history of Amdo Tibetan rhymes.

On the cognitive basis of contact-induced sound change: Vowel merger reversal in Shanghainese (2016)
Journal Article
Yao, Y., & Chang, C. B. (2016). On the cognitive basis of contact-induced sound change: Vowel merger reversal in Shanghainese. Language, 92(2), 433-467. https://doi.org/10.1353/lan.2016.0031

This study investigated the source and status of a recent sound change in Shanghainese (Wu, Sinitic) that has been attributed to language contact with Mandarin. The change involves two vowels, /e/ and /ɛ/, reported to be merged three decades ago but... Read More about On the cognitive basis of contact-induced sound change: Vowel merger reversal in Shanghainese.

Works and Networks of mkhas pa Dri med. On the Illustrations of 16th Century Tibetan Printed Books. (2016)
Book Chapter
Sernesi, M. (2016). Works and Networks of mkhas pa Dri med. On the Illustrations of 16th Century Tibetan Printed Books. In H. Diemberger, F.-K. Ehrhard, & P. Kornicki (Eds.), Tibetan Printing: Comparisons, Continuities and Change (332-368). Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004316256_017

Wearing the Belt of Oppression: Khāqāni's Christian Qasida and the Prison Poetry of Medieval Shirvān (2016)
Journal Article
Gould, R. R. (2016). Wearing the Belt of Oppression: Khāqāni's Christian Qasida and the Prison Poetry of Medieval Shirvān. Journal of Persianate Studies, 9(1), 19-44. https://doi.org/10.1163/18747167-12341296

This article examines how the Persian prison poem (habsiyāt) incorporated Islamic legal norms for governing non-Muslim peoples into its poetics. By tracing how Khāqāni of Shirvān (d. 1199) brought the aesthetics of incarceration to bear on Islamic le... Read More about Wearing the Belt of Oppression: Khāqāni's Christian Qasida and the Prison Poetry of Medieval Shirvān.

Mapmaking for Language Documentation and Description (2016)
Journal Article
Gawne, L., & Ring, H. (2016). Mapmaking for Language Documentation and Description. Language Documentation & Conservation, 10, 188-242

This paper introduces readers to mapmaking as part of language documentation. We discuss some of the benefits and ethical challenges in producing good maps, drawing on linguistic geography and GIS literature. We then describe current tools and practi... Read More about Mapmaking for Language Documentation and Description.

Finding Bazorkin in the Caucasus: A Journey from Anthropology to Literature (2016)
Journal Article
Gould, R. R. (2016). Finding Bazorkin in the Caucasus: A Journey from Anthropology to Literature. Anthropology and Humanism, 41(1), 86-101. https://doi.org/10.1111/anhu.12109

This essay chronicles a journey through the Caucasus toward the end of the second Russo-Chechen war. It focuses in particular on the discovery of a little-known Soviet-era work of historical fiction by the Ingush author Idris Bazorkin (1910-1991). In... Read More about Finding Bazorkin in the Caucasus: A Journey from Anthropology to Literature.

El redescubrimiento del cine documental japonés. El estudio contemporáneo de la desconocida obra de Susumu Hani en Iwanami Eiga. (2016)
Book Chapter
Centeno, M. (2016). El redescubrimiento del cine documental japonés. El estudio contemporáneo de la desconocida obra de Susumu Hani en Iwanami Eiga. In A. Lozano-Méndez (Ed.), El Japón contemporáneo : una aproximación desde los estudios culturales. Ediciones Bellaterra

The Morphological-to-Analytic Causative Continuum in Hausa New Insights and Analyses in a Typological Perspective (2016)
Preprint / Working Paper
Jaggar, P. J. The Morphological-to-Analytic Causative Continuum in Hausa New Insights and Analyses in a Typological Perspective

Over the last few decades, linguists have devoted considerable attention to both homogeneity and variation in the expression of causal events across languages. However, most studies, whether typological or language-specific, have focussed on morpholo... Read More about The Morphological-to-Analytic Causative Continuum in Hausa New Insights and Analyses in a Typological Perspective.