Giorgos Androulidakis
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James McElvenny deposited Language Complexity in Historical Perspective: The Enduring Tropes of Natural Growth and Abnormal Contact in the group
Linguistics on Humanities Commons 4 years, 5 months agoFocusing on the work of John McWhorter and, to a lesser extent, Peter Trudgill, this paper critically examines some common themes in language complexity research from the perspective of intellectual history. The present-day conception that increase in language complexity is somehow a “natural” process which is disturbed under the “ab…[Read more]
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James McElvenny deposited Language Complexity in Historical Perspective: The Enduring Tropes of Natural Growth and Abnormal Contact in the group
History of Linguistics and Language Study on Humanities Commons 4 years, 5 months agoFocusing on the work of John McWhorter and, to a lesser extent, Peter Trudgill, this paper critically examines some common themes in language complexity research from the perspective of intellectual history. The present-day conception that increase in language complexity is somehow a “natural” process which is disturbed under the “ab…[Read more]
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Johann-Mattis List deposited Evolutionary Aspects of Language Change in the group
Linguistics on Humanities Commons 4 years, 6 months agoWhile it has been known for a long time that human languages can change in various ways, it was only in the early 19th century that scholars realized that certain aspects of language change proceed in a surprisingly regular manner, allowing us to reconstruct historical stages of languages which have never been documented in written sources. The…[Read more]
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Johann-Mattis List deposited Evolutionary Aspects of Language Change in the group
History of Linguistics and Language Study on Humanities Commons 4 years, 6 months agoWhile it has been known for a long time that human languages can change in various ways, it was only in the early 19th century that scholars realized that certain aspects of language change proceed in a surprisingly regular manner, allowing us to reconstruct historical stages of languages which have never been documented in written sources. The…[Read more]
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Pablo Markin started the topic Reproducibility, Open Science in the discussion
Open Access Books Network via email on Humanities Commons 4 years, 6 months agoDear All,
In this podcast episode, Matthew Ismail talks to immunologist Ewoud Compeer of the University of Oxford about the reproducibility crisis and how Open Science and Open Access can help to enhance the reproducibility of scientific research:…[Read more]
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Nelson Goering deposited Review of Mailhammer & Vennemann (2019): The Carthaginian North: Semitic Influence on Early Germanic: A Linguistic and Cultural Study in the group
Linguistics on Humanities Commons 4 years, 6 months agoJournal of Historical Linguistics, Volume 11, Issue 2, 357 – 366.
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Lucy Barnes replied to the topic OA and translations in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 4 years, 6 months agoHi Philippa, I’d be happy to discuss this — at OBP we have been approached by people interested in translating our OA books and I could talk through how we deal with this. Essentially, if the book is licensed CC BY then anyone can produce a translation as long as appropriate attribution is given, although it would also be best practice to say…[Read more]
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Nelson Goering deposited Kaluza’s Law and Secondary Stress (final version) in the group
Linguistics on Humanities Commons 4 years, 6 months agoKaluza’s law is a proposed restriction in the metre of Beowulf against the resolution of light-heavy sequences: words like cyning ‘king’ can only resolve and count as the equivalent of a single heavy syllable under more restricted circumstances than can words such as wudu ‘wood’. There has been debate about how to define these ‘restrict…[Read more]
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Lucy Barnes replied to the topic A Plan S for books: Voices from the Community in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 4 years, 6 months agoHi all: the summaries from our Voices from the OA Books Community series are now available (thanks to the support of SPARC Europe) and will remain open until 12 August: https://openaccessbooksnetwork.hcommons-staging.org/2021/07/22/voices-from-the-oa-books-community-summary-the-great-polyphony/
Many thanks to all who contributed to the sessions!
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Andree Peterburs deposited Die Rechtschreibung der niederdeutschen (sassischen) Sprache: Empfehlungen und neue Schreibregeln (Nie/Nige Skryvwise/Schryvwise) in the group
Linguistics on Humanities Commons 4 years, 6 months ago„Geiht“ mit h und „Blatt, goot, oolt“ mit t? Im Gegensatz zum Hochdeutschen ist das Niederdeutsche bis heute keine normierte Schriftsprache. Wie kann es aber sein, dass offensichtlich falsche Schreibweisen (z. B. das falsche Dehnungs-h im Wort „geiht“) seit Jahren als maßgebend und verbindlich für einen großen Teil des niederdeutsche…[Read more]
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Tom Mosterd replied to the topic OA Policy Statements from Presses in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 4 years, 6 months agoHi John,
I’ve had a read through and think it is a really thoughtful and well-balanced vision and policy considering some of the current challenges and opportunities for opening up books. I’m not too familiar with similar visions and policies, some of the fully OA publishers do have a clear vision statement and the University of Michigan Press…[Read more]
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John Sherer started the topic OA Policy Statements from Presses in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 4 years, 7 months agoHello all,
Here at the University of North Carolina Press we’ve just published an OA Policy on our web site.
I’m curious whether other publishers (for whom OA is only a part of their program) have done this. In preparing this, I did some scans of publisher web sites…[Read more]
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Lucy Barnes replied to the topic bOokmArks events – Open Conversations about Open Access Books in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 4 years, 7 months agoThe recording of our boOkmArks event with Janneke Adema, Marcell Mars & Toby Steiner of the COPIM Project on experimental OA book publishing is now available! Many thanks to our speakers for a fascinating session & to the audience for coming and bringing your questions: https://youtube.com/watch?v=V5mbp48ZXIw
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Lucy Barnes replied to the topic bOokmArks events – Open Conversations about Open Access Books in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 4 years, 7 months agoTomorrow at 3pm BST/4pm CEST/10am EDT is our last Open Cafe before we take a couple of months off to plan the next year of events and activities at the OABN. Do please join us with your beverage of choice to let us know your thoughts — are there particular topics you want us to cover, different formats we should try, something we did well,…[Read more]
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Eric Hellman replied to the topic Announcements in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 4 years, 7 months agoWe’ve opened the Free Ebook Foundation Open Access Monographs Fund! https://blog.unglue.it/2021/07/02/the-ebook-turns-50-fef-monographs-fund/
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Christina Drummond replied to the topic Book usage and book usage data in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 4 years, 7 months agoGreetings Everyone. Over the past year, the OA eBook Usage (OAeBU) Data Trust effort hosted human centered design inspired workshops and activities to surface how scholars, publishers, libraries, platforms and services want to use OA ebook usage data. The resulting report captures both specific reporting query interests as well as aspirations for…[Read more]
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Lucy Barnes replied to the topic bOokmArks events – Open Conversations about Open Access Books in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 4 years, 7 months agoHi all, the experimental OA books event with COPIM is today at 3pm BST — hope to see you there! Find the link here: https://openaccessbooksnetwork.hcommons-staging.org/2021/06/22/lets-experiment-join-us-for-a-boookmarks-event-next-tuesday/
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Pablo Markin started the topic The Replication Crisis in the discussion
Open Access Books Network via email on Humanities Commons 4 years, 7 months agoDear All,
The evidence-based science discussion highlights factors likely leading to the emergence of Open Access, as ongoing crises across scientific discourses have possibly powered a demand for a revision of the basic assumptions subtending publishing practices:…[Read more]
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Lucy Barnes replied to the topic bOokmArks events – Open Conversations about Open Access Books in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 4 years, 7 months agoWe’re delighted to announce our final two events before the summer!
After completing our series on OA books policy, ‘Voices from the OA Books Community’ (details and recordings here) we are holding two more events before taking July and August off to plan the next 12 months of activities (and maybe have a holiday!) We’re rounding our first year…[Read more]
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