Com base na hipótese de que a emergência histórica dos cinemas africanos e sua contemporaneidade são indissociáveis de uma reivindicação do direito de olhar, de narrar e de imaginar o mundo, este artigo busca estabelecer um quadro conceitual para uma história das formas de imaginação do comum nos cinemas africanos. Nessa história ainda a escrever…[Read more]

The central topic of João Botelho’s “Um adeus português” (1986), is memory in 1980s Portuguese society. The film alternates scenes from 1973, during the colonial war in Africa, with scenes set in 1985, in rural and urban areas of Portugal. In the present essay, I argue that the film enacts the need for a conversation among the Portuguese by opti…[Read more]

Sumerian and Akkadian language contact in the early part of the second millennium BCE. The article discusses prevalent language ideologies based on native metalinguistic discourse in comparison with language use in practice with the phrase mu—pad₃ = nīš—itma ‘(s)he swore an oath’ as a case study.

In this research, we examine the productivity of the broken plural in Maltese. Using machine learning techniques and behavioral methods, we show that the broken plural is able to be predicted by a singular noun’s CV structure. Using a logistic regression classifier, we are able to correctly predict the plural CV structure of the singular noun w…[Read more]

Corpus Linguistics and NLP have many obvious applications for researchers, academics, and other specialists; what should not be overlooked, however, is their role in improving the mundane, everyday interactions between people and language, be they a reader of a newspaper; a child with a storybook; or a student in a classroom. The language analyses…[Read more]

“Making a Tibetan Speech Corpus” — སྐད་ཕུང་སྒྲུབ་སྟངས་ཀྱི་ལག་དེབ། — is a beginner’s guide and training manual for collecting & transcribing natural speech data. While it was written specifically with the Tibetan language in mind, the principles within are generally applicable. The first chapter introduces linguistics, corpora, and practical…[Read more]

Project Abstract: Ancient Mesopotamia, birthplace of writing, has produced vast numbers of cuneiform tablets that only a handful of highly specialized scholars are able to read. The task of studying them is so labor intensive that the vast majority have not yet been translated, with the result that their contents are not accessible either to…[Read more]

Even as there has been a pronounced trend towards secularization in modern literature, a group of authors continues to be haunted by religious texts, histories, and rituals. George Eliot, James Joyce, Rabindranath Tagore, Salman Rushdie, Philip Roth, Orhan Pamuk, V.S. Naipaul

Editorial for the “Descentrar la modernidad/Decentering Modernity” issue of Nomenclatura: Aproximación a los estudios hispánicos, available at http://uknowledge.uky.edu/naeh/.

Bunun is a language spoken by one of the Austronesian minority groups on the island of Taiwan. Its most marked characteristics are its complex verbal morphology and its unusual argument alignment system. Takivatan Bunun is the third-largest of its five extant dialects and is spoken by a number of small settlements in two counties in the central…[Read more]

Lecture delivered to near eastern studies and religious studies programs.

The Lion and the Lamb: Reconsidering ‘Jewish-Christian Relations’ in Antiquity.

Editors’ Introduction to a special roundtable with four essays on intellectual freedom, vigilantism, and censorship in India.

The Place of the Biblical Jew in the Early Christian Holy Land

Missionary history has been acknowledged in recent years as a fundamental context for the emergence of European Orientalism. In particular, it is becoming clearer the specific cultural relevance of the Catholic missionaries to India, working under the Portuguese Royal Patronage (Padroado Real), depending from the Roman Congregation De Propaganda…[Read more]

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