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Pushing Back the Origin of Bantu Lexicography: The Vocabularium Congense of 1652, 1928, 2012 [PDF]
Lexikos, 2012 In this article, the oldest Bantu dictionary hitherto known is explored, that is the Vocabularium Latinum, Hispanicum, e Congense, handed down to us through a manuscript from 1652 by the Flemish Capuchin Joris van Gheel, missionary in the Kongo (present ...
Jasper De Kind +2 more
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Lost and Found: The Value of a Little Known Bilingual Dictionary Towards the Intellectualization of Ndau [PDF]
Lexikos, 2017 This article critically evaluates the ChiNdau–English and English–ChiNdau Vocabulary: With Grammatical Notes, a bilingual dictionary published in 1915 by the American Board Mission (Rhodesian Branch), with a view of determining its suitability for use as
Emmanuel Sithole, Dion Nkomo
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Political Thought of Seyyed Fakhreddin Shadman and the Spragens Model [PDF]
سیاست متعالیه, 2023 Following the spread of renewal thought during the First Pahlavi era, and simultaneously with the changing political and social conditions of society and increasing awareness of the West, a new generation of intellectuals has emerged who, while having ...
Ebrahim Barzegar +2 more
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Problems of Uzbek written language
Uluslararası Türk Lehçe Araştırmaları Dergisi, 2023 Uzbek written language is a written language based on the speech of the people of the region, which does not date back to a century in Turkestan geography and includes sounds that are not found in the historical Turkic written languages used before. In
Hikmet Koraş, Kevser Akman
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Lea, 2020 The main objective of this article is to briefly illustrate the contribution of Italian sinology in compiling dictionaries of the Chinese language. Michele Ruggieri and Matteo Ricci succeed in compiling a list of words by means of a new transcription ...
Miriam Castorina
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Language, Science and Globalization in the Eighteenth Century**
Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Volume 46, Issue 1, Page 38-53, March 2023., 2023 Abstract Asia, America, and Europe have been intellectually intertwined for centuries. Several studies have been published revealing European scholars’ interest in the “exotic” languages of Asia and America, as well as in ethnographic and anthropological aspects.
Rebeca Fernández Rodríguez
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Scientific Programming, Volume 2023, Issue 1, 2023., 2023 This study examines a repairable K‐out‐of‐(N + W): G system with warm standby components and R repairmen, where common cause failure (CCF), random inspection, and a repair pressure coefficient are involved. Due to the typical non‐self‐announcement of the standby component’s failure, performing a random inspection on warm standby components is necessary
Shan Gao, Zongbin Wang, Jiwei Huang
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Lexikos, 2015 In this article a little-known dictionary manuscript from the 1930s, the Lexique kikongo-français by the Jesuit missionary Charles Polis, is analysed in great detail. Section 1 expounds on the goal and raison d'être of the study, Section 2 introduces the
Gilles-Maurice de Schryver
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World Englishes and English for specific purposes (ESP)
World Englishes, Volume 41, Issue 4, Page 495-511, December 2022., 2022 Abstract This article sets out to review English for specific purposes (ESP) as a discipline and its conceptual and scholarly connections with the world Englishes (WE) approach English worldwide. This is done partly through a detailed literature review of articles on ESP in the Asian and European regions, taken from the journal English for Specific ...
Kingsley Bolton, Christopher Jenks
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Motivation and competition in health care
Health Economics, Volume 31, Issue 8, Page 1695-1712, August 2022., 2022 Abstract Non‐pecuniary sources of motivation are a strong feature of the health care sector and the impact of competitive incentives on behavior may be lower where pecuniary motivation is low. This paper measures the marginal utility of income (MUY) of physicians from a stated‐choice experiment, and examines whether this measure influences the ...
Anthony Scott, Peter Sivey
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