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Segmenting and POS tagging Classical Tibetan using a memory-based tagger (2017)
Journal Article
Hill, N. W., & Meelen, M. (2017). Segmenting and POS tagging Classical Tibetan using a memory-based tagger. Himalayan linguistics, 16(2), 64-86. https://doi.org/10.5070/H916234501

This paper presents a new approach to two challenging NLP tasks in Classical Tibetan: word segmentation and Part-of-Speech (POS) tagging. We demonstrate how both these problems can be approached in the same way, by generating a memory-based tagger th... Read More about Segmenting and POS tagging Classical Tibetan using a memory-based tagger.

Us and Them: Negotiating National Identities in a Shifting Europe (2017)
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Kirsch, G., Cocuz, I., & Igrutinovic´, D. (2017). Us and Them: Negotiating National Identities in a Shifting Europe. Belgrade

This paper focuses on how national identities have recently been negotiated in different European countries (EU member states, one EU candidate state, and one EU opt-out member), mainly in relation to EU identity, refugees, religion, and LGBT rights.... Read More about Us and Them: Negotiating National Identities in a Shifting Europe.

Suffixed plurals in Baïnonk languages: Agreement patterns and diachronic development (2017)
Journal Article
Cobbinah, A. Suffixed plurals in Baïnonk languages: Agreement patterns and diachronic development. Journal of African Languages and Linguistics, 38(2), 145-185. https://doi.org/10.1515/jall-2017-0007

This paper re-evaluates hypotheses about the agreement behaviour of nouns using plural suffixes in the Baïnounk languages (Niger Congo/ Atlantic/ North Atlantic). Although these languages dispose of a large and complex prefixing noun class systems wh... Read More about Suffixed plurals in Baïnonk languages: Agreement patterns and diachronic development.

"We don’t say it like that”: language ownership and (de)legitimising the new speaker (2017)
Book Chapter
Sallabank, J., & Marquis, Y. (2018). "We don’t say it like that”: language ownership and (de)legitimising the new speaker. In M. Hornsby, & C. Smith-Christmas (Eds.), New Speakers of Minority Languages: Linguistic Ideologies and Practices (67-90). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-57558-6_4

In Guernsey (Channel Islands) there is a distinct lack of fluent new speakers of the indigenous language, Giernesiei. Examination of debates and unstated ideologies surrounding language teaching and revitalisation reveals that there is a degree of u... Read More about "We don’t say it like that”: language ownership and (de)legitimising the new speaker.

African(ist) perspectives on vitality: fluidity, small speaker numbers and adaptive multilingualism make vibrant ecologies (2017)
Journal Article
Lüpke, F. (2017). African(ist) perspectives on vitality: fluidity, small speaker numbers and adaptive multilingualism make vibrant ecologies. Language, 93(4), e275-e279. https://doi.org/10.1353/lan.2017.0071

This paper addresses language vitality from an Africanist perspective. I identify central components for the paradigm Mufwene (2017) invites us to conceive: the investigation of communicative practices in language ecologies (rather than the study of... Read More about African(ist) perspectives on vitality: fluidity, small speaker numbers and adaptive multilingualism make vibrant ecologies.

Minimal C-structure: Rethinking Projection in Phrase Structure (2017)
Book Chapter
Lovestrand, J., & Lowe, J. J. (2017). Minimal C-structure: Rethinking Projection in Phrase Structure. In M. Butt, & T. H. King (Eds.), Proceedings of the LFG’17 Conference (285-305). CSLI Publications

This paper addresses the formal properties of constituent structure (cstructure). We demonstrate inadequacies in the formalization of traditional X0 theory by Bresnan (2001) and Bresnan et al. (2016), and in the alternative proposal of Marcotte (2014... Read More about Minimal C-structure: Rethinking Projection in Phrase Structure.

Punishing Violent Thoughts: Islamic Dissent and Thoreauvian Disobedience in Post-9/11 America (2017)
Journal Article
Gould, R. R. (2019). Punishing Violent Thoughts: Islamic Dissent and Thoreauvian Disobedience in Post-9/11 America. Journal of American Studies, 53(1), 146-171. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021875817001426

American Muslims increasingly negotiate their relation to a government that is suspicious of Islam, yet which recognizes them as rights-bearing citizens, within a culture they claim as their own. To better understand how the post-9/11 state is reshap... Read More about Punishing Violent Thoughts: Islamic Dissent and Thoreauvian Disobedience in Post-9/11 America.

Autoridad epistémica y atenuación en Tena Kichwa: Análisis de enclítico =cha basado en el corpus [Epistemic authority and attenuation in Tena Kichwa: Corpus-based analysis of the enclitic =cha (2017)
Journal Article
Grzech, K. Autoridad epistémica y atenuación en Tena Kichwa: Análisis de enclítico =cha basado en el corpus [Epistemic authority and attenuation in Tena Kichwa: Corpus-based analysis of the enclitic =cha. Normas, 7(2), 48-71. https://doi.org/10.7203/normas.v7i2.11167

Este artículo se enfoca en la relación entre atenuación y falta de autoridad epistémica. Los datos analizados en el artículo provienen de tena kichwa, una lengua quechua en peligro de extinción, hablada en la Amazonia Ecuatoriana. La lengua posee un... Read More about Autoridad epistémica y atenuación en Tena Kichwa: Análisis de enclítico =cha basado en el corpus [Epistemic authority and attenuation in Tena Kichwa: Corpus-based analysis of the enclitic =cha.

Literature as a tribunal: the modern Iranian prose of incarceration (2017)
Journal Article
Ruth Gould, R. (2017). Literature as a tribunal: the modern Iranian prose of incarceration. Prose Studies, 39(1), 19-38. https://doi.org/10.1080/01440357.2017.1394637

This essay examines the development of prison memoirs in modern Iranian prose. It constructs from the prison memoirs of the dissident writers ʿAli Dashti, Bozorg ʿAlavi, and Reza Baraheni a genealogy of the emergence of prison consciousness in Irania... Read More about Literature as a tribunal: the modern Iranian prose of incarceration.

Purism, Variation, Change and ‘Authenticity’: Ideological Challenges to Language Revitalisation (2017)
Journal Article
Sallabank, J. (2017). Purism, Variation, Change and ‘Authenticity’: Ideological Challenges to Language Revitalisation. European Review, 26(1), 164-178. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1062798717000400

This paper is based on recent research into the small, highly endangered language Giernesiei 1 (Guernsey, Channel Islands). 2 Language documentation has found unexpectedly rich variation and change in Giernesiei usage, not all of which can be account... Read More about Purism, Variation, Change and ‘Authenticity’: Ideological Challenges to Language Revitalisation.

St. Constantine-Cyril's Mission to the Abbasid Court and Eastern Orthodox Ideology of Warfare (2017)
Book Chapter
Stoyanov, Y. (2017). St. Constantine-Cyril's Mission to the Abbasid Court and Eastern Orthodox Ideology of Warfare. In M. B. Panov (Ed.), The Byzantine Missionary Activity and Its Legacy in Europe (19-28). Euro-Balkan University

The historical development and modern transformations of the attitudes of Eastern Orthodox cultures and ecclesiastical elites to the problems and ethics of war display both significant analogies and dissimilarities to the respective Western Christian... Read More about St. Constantine-Cyril's Mission to the Abbasid Court and Eastern Orthodox Ideology of Warfare.