Social Issues in Historical Linguistics in Africa

Historical Linguistics

One remarkably striking observation about language, seemingly trivial but actually quite important, is that languages change through time. It is at least conceivable that language could remain unchanged over time, as is the case with some other human institutions, e.g. various tabus or the rules to come games, and with some aspects of human communication systems, e.g. Morse Code or the value of...

the investigation of research articles in applied linguistics: convergence and divergence in iranian elt context

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Social Issues in Post Disaster Reconstruction Planning

Post disaster reconstruction in the destructed zones entails the social aspects in addition to the physical and urban aspects, because of the presence of affected people in the very location. The presented research aims to assess the social aspects of the post disaster conditions in the course of reconstruction, which take into consideration the related social factors in the affected community....

A statistical test useful in historical linguistics

Riassunto: In linguistica storica occorrono metodi per quantificare la similarità fra lingue basandosi sul confronto di particolari liste di parole estratte dal vocabolario completo. In particolare, si pone il problema di valutare se il numero di elementi simili nelle due liste sia sufficientemente alto per rifiutare l’ipotesi di somiglianza casuale. Dopo aver illustrato un approccio già esiste...

Historical Archaeology in Africa: Representation, Social Memory, and Oral Traditions