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Remembering Donald F. Steiner

Pioneering endocrinologist and molecular biologist Donald Frederick Steiner, A. N. Pritzker Distinguished Service Professor of Medicine and Biochemistry andMolecular Biology at the University of Chicago (Figure 1A), died on November 11, 2014 at the age of 84. “Very few scientists,” observed Nobel Laureate Joseph L. Goldstein, MD, Chairman of the Department of Molecular Genetics at the Universit...

On German-Croatian and Italian-Croatian language contact.

Croatia has always been a multilingual environment. The influence of German and Italian was empowered through direct political influence. During the second part of the 18th and in the 19th century native speakers of German and Italian used Croatian as a second language carrying out their duties at work. This bilingualism can tentatively be referred to as bureaucratic bilingualism. Native Croati...

Language Contact and Morphosyntactic Complexity: Evidence from German

The article focuses on the hypothesis that the structural complexity of languages is variable and historically changeable. By means of a quantitative statistical analysis of naturalistic corpus data, the question is raised as to what role language contact and adult second language acquisition play in the simplification and complexification of language varieties. The results confirm that there i...

Contents and evaluation of the first Slovenian-German online dictionary

This paper presents the first SlovenianGerman and German-Slovenian online dictionary and contains evaluation figures for its Slovenian part. Evaluations are based on coverage of a Slovenian newspaper corpus as well as on user queries.

Language Change and Language Contact