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City Magistrate of Tsaritsyn as the Estates Court for Urban Population 1784-1866
Вестник Волгоградского государственного университета. Серия 4. История, регионоведение, международные отношения, 2017 At the end of the 18th century in Russia caste system of the judiciary was legalized. For urban and suburban trade and craft population of the Russian Empire estates courts were magistrates. Despite the fact that the activities of magistrates are studied
Elena V. Bulyulina +1 more
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Ethics and Revitalization of Dormant Languages: The Mutsun Language
Language Documentation & Conservation, 2007 Language revitalization (either increasing the use of an endangered language or bringing back a language with no speakers) brings up many ethical issues, beginning with whether it is even legitimate to attempt such revitalization.
Natasha Warner +2 more
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Comparative constructions in Suansu and the languages of northeastern India
Linguistic Typology at the Crossroads, 2022 This paper provides a first description of comparative constructions in Suansu, an unreported Tibeto-Burman language spoken in northeastern India, and frames the characteristics of Suansu comparative constructions from a typological perspective ...
Jessica Katiuscia Ivani
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Copyright Essentials for Linguists
Language Documentation & Conservation, 2007 This paper addresses copyright issues that linguists confront in their capacity as users and creators of scholarly work. It is organized in a simple question-answer format. Questions 1-3 present the basics of U.S. copyright law, including the fundamental
Paul Newman
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Endangered Sound Patterns: Three Perspectives on Theory and Description
Language Documentation & Conservation, 2007 In this essay, I highlight the important role of endangered language documentation and description in the study of sound patterns. Three different perspectives are presented: a long view of phonology, from ancient to modern traditions; an areal and ...
Juliette Blevins
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A Synchronic and Historical Look at Aklanon Phonology
Acta Linguistica Asiatica, 2022 Akeanon features a phoneme unique relative to many Philippine-type languages, which is a reflex of the proto-Bisayan *l and *-d-. This was initially described as a voiced velar fricative [ɣ], and later repositioned as both a consonant of an onset and a ...
Philip Rentillo +1 more
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The dialect of Gammalsvenskby: compiling a dictionary of an unexplored language (mä — mäitje) [PDF]
Вестник Православного Свято-Тихоновского гуманитарного университета: Сериа III. Филология, 2020 This paper presents new material for the dictionary of the present-day dialect of Staroshvedkoye (Gammalsvenskby), the only Scandinavian dialect in the territory of the former Soviet Union.
Alexander Mankov
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Solar Power for the Digital Fieldworker
Language Documentation & Conservation, 2007 This article discusses the technical aspects of a solar power setup for remote field situations. It guides the reader through estimating power consumption and setting up a basic solar kit.
Tom Honeyman, Laura C. Robinson
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Writers' Workshops: A Strategy for Developing Indigenous Writers
Language Documentation & Conservation, 2007 This paper discusses how writers' workshops can be used to develop writers from indigenous language groups. It considers how such workshops fit into the greater context of a community literacy program, and describes both the practical and instructional ...
Diana Dahlin Weber +2 more
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Language Documentation meets Language Technology
Septentrio Conference Series, 2015 Thepaper describes work-in-progress by the Pite Saami, Kola Saami and Izhva Komi language documentation projects, all of which use similar data and technical frameworks and are carried out collaboratively in Uppsala, Tromso, Syktyvkar and Freiburg. Our projects record and annotate spoken language data in order to provide comprehensive speech corpora as
Blokland, Rogier +5 more
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