Like every discipline, theorizing in linguistics crucially involves drawing (often tentative) conclusions about the relation between the available evidence and the theories under consideration. At many points in their research, linguists must decide whether the available evidence (theoretical, empirical, etc.) supports a given theory well enough to accept it, possibly over various competing the...

From his early years, Delacroix, like his contemporary Théodore Gericault, was attracted to the savagery of wild animals. In a note written in Morocco, Delacroix mentions a scene of fighting horses. Among the precedents for this kind of wild-animal imagery was the antique group “Lion Attacking a Horse” (Rome, Mus. Conserv.), which was said to have been particularly admired by Michelangelo and w...

Numerous population-based studies have demonstrated that the incidence of diabetes is increasing among the Arab populations of the Middle East. The prevalence of diabetes varies from 3% in Sudan to 35% in Bahrain.1,2 Higher rates were observed in urban areas and are often associated with sociodemographic transition.3 The Arab-American community in metropolitan Detroit, populated mostly by Middl...

Background: In the United States (US), Arab Americans who maintain traditional cultural norms after their immigration are more likely to continue smoking as a form of social interaction. Arab Americans and their families are at a high risk for poor health outcomes related to smoking. Objective: This systematic review aimed to explore the smoking behavior, prevalence and use among Arab Americans...

The many electronic text corpora available nowadays present ever fewer obstacles to a wide range of corpus linguistic study. However, corpora are expensive resources to create and to update, and there remain problems for linguists if they seek access to very large, very recent, or changing language. The World Wide Web, whilst intended as an information source, is an obvious resource for the ret...