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The model of digitising archival lexicographic publications for the web
The paper presents a model designed to digitise old lexicographic publications from The Miroslav Krleža Institute of Lexicography for online publication (e-bastina.lzmk.hr).
Cvijeta Kraus +2 more
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The use of exonyms is one of the earliest challenges faced by experts who deal with geographical names on an international level. The prevalent view is that exonyms hinder international communication and their use should therefore be reduced.
Ivana Crljenko
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Abstract This study investigates the lexicographical potential of Medieval Latin documentation from the Venetian area of the Italo‐Romance domain, highlighting the need for a systematic approach to bridge Latin and vernacular linguistic developments. The project MEDITA – Medieval Latin Documentation and Digital Italo‐Romance Lexicography.
Jacopo Gesiot
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English in Icelandic — A comparison between generations
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Asta Svavarsdóttir
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Diachronic and synchronic thesauruses [PDF]
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Alexander, Marc, Kay, Christian
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L2 Writing Assistants and Context-Aware Dictionaries: New Challenges to Lexicography
Dictionaries are increasingly integrated into other tools designed to assist the reading, writing and translation of texts. Write Assistant is a newly developed tool aimed at assisting people writing in a second language.
S. Tarp, Kasper Fisker, P. Sepstrup
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Is there really a dictator's dilemma? Information and repression in autocracy
Abstract In his seminal work on the political economy of dictatorship, Ronald Wintrobe posited the existence of a “dictator's dilemma,” in which repression leaves an autocrat less secure by reducing information about discontent. We explore the nature and resolution of this dilemma with a formalization that builds on recent work in the political economy
Scott Gehlbach +3 more
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Considering a lexicographic plan for Gabon within the Gabonese language landscape [PDF]
This article raises a number of questions that should be dealt with in drawing up a lexicographic plan for Gabon. For which of the Gabonese languages should lexicographic units be established? This question entrains the issue of inventorying the Gabonese
Ndinga-Koumba-Binza, Hugues Steve
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Abstract Many policymakers are unwilling, or think that it is infeasible, to perform comprehensive cost–benefit analysis (CBA) of programmes in social policy arenas. What principles actually underlie CBA? An understanding is necessary to assess whether other evaluation methods are close enough to CBA to provide useful information on social efficiency ...
Aidan R. Vining, Anthony E. Boardman
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Short Abstract This paper examines how the Royal Geographical Society's (RGS's) Library and Map Committee disciplined the exchange of the first English‐language geographical journal in the nineteenth century. The periodical's archive reveals the institutional mechanisms that shaped the journal's networks of gifting and exchange but also the deliberate ...
Benjamin Newman
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