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He completed his dissertation on Japanese morphophonemics in 1950 ( published as a monograph by the Linguistic Society of America the following year ), and was immediately offered a position at Yale University, where he remained until his retirement in 1994.

The idea of a Declaration was first proposed in 1984, where a Brazilian by the name of Francisco Gomes de Matos introduced to the International Federation of Modern Language Teachers ( FIPLV ), a plea for a Universal Declaration of Linguistic Rights.

Linguistic studies suggested that the origin of the Tai people lies around the Chinese Province of Guangxi, where the Zhuang people are still a majority.

The recording, titled Lady June's Linguistic Leprosy, made in a front room of Cramer's home in Vale Court, Maida Vale, brought Lady June's spoken word poetry together with the music and voice of Ayers, and also had contributions by Brian Eno and Pip Pyle.

The romanization advocated by the Linguistic Society of Hong Kong ( LSHK ) is called Jyutping, which solves many of the inconsistencies of the older, favored, and more familiar system of Yale Romanization, but departs from it in a number of ways unfamiliar to Yale users.

Linguistic and genetic evidence indicates the Romanies originated on the Indian subcontinent, emigrating from India towards the northwest no earlier than the 11th century.

He directed the Association from 1930 to 1931, and was a member of its Consultative Counsel for Linguistic Research from 1927 to 1938.

Linguistic and theological agreements and cross-references between the books indicate that they are from the same author.

Linguistic amendments were also included ; the line in the preamble emphasising that authors possessed books as they would any other piece of property was dropped, and the bill moved from something designed " for Securing the Property of Copies of Books to the rightful Owners thereof " to a bill " for the Encouragement of Learning, by Vesting the Copies of Printed Books in the Authors or Purchasers of such Copies ".

* Linguistic data from Generalitat de Catalunya ( pdf format )

Linguistic data show that the Hmong of the Peninsula stem from the Miao of southern China as one among a set of ethnic groups belonging to the Miao – Yao ( also called Hmong – Mien ) linguage family.

He became an MP and the leader of the parliamentary party of the Greens ( Alliance ' 90 / The Greens from 1993 ) in the Baden-Württemberg legislature in 1984, a position he held until 1988, and then later again from 1992 to 2000, having worked as a Professor of Linguistic Communication in the years in between.

The modern English-only movement has met with rejection from the private organization Linguistic Society of America, which passed a resolution in 1986 – 87 opposing "' English only ' measures on the grounds that they are based on misconceptions about the role of a common language in establishing political unity, and that they are inconsistent with basic American traditions of linguistic tolerance.

), The Transition from Prelinguistic to Linguistic Communication ( pp. 27 42 ).

Linguistic evidence suggests an original settlement from Fiji.

Linguistic minorities have always been negligible in comparison with those of most other European nations ; in 1861, they amounted to a scarce 1 % of the total population, and in 1921, when Italy's territory reached its greatest extent, only 2 % of the population spoke a language different from Italian or related dialects.

Linguistic devices that transform a verbal act into poetry range " from the network of distinctive features to the arrangement of the entire text " ( Jakobson 23 ).

The first major attempt was the Linguistic Atlas of Chinese Dialects / which surveyed 2, 791 locations across the nation including 121 Wu locations ( a step up from the two locations in PKU's earlier surveys ) and led to the formation of an elaborate database including digital recordings of all locations which is unfortunately not available to the general public.

Linguistic purism is strongly supported in Iceland in an attempt to prevent loanwords from entering the language.

Linguistic composition of the region is partially different from ethnic composition since some ethnic Jews and bilingual South Slavs were in this census recorded as speakers of Hungarian language.

Linguistic and archaeological evidence suggests that the Wintun people probably entered the California area around 500 AD from what is now southern Oregon, introducing bow and arrow technology to the region ( Golla 2011: 205 ).

To understand the full sweep and complexity of cultures across all of human history, anthropology draws and builds upon knowledge from the social and biological sciences as well as the humanities and physical sciences .” Thus, the field is divided into four subareas: Sociocultural Anthropology, Biological ( or Physical ) Anthropology, Archaeology, and Linguistic Anthropology.

She attained her Ph. D. in 1979 from Stanford University, with her dissertation Linguistic Capabilities of a Lowland Gorilla, on teaching sign language to Koko and Michael, another Lowland Gorilla, who died in 2000.

The linguist George Abraham Grierson in his multivolume Linguistic Survey of India ( 1904 – 1928 ) considered the various dialects up to then called " Western Punjabi ", spoken in North, West, and South of Lahore in what is now Pakistani Punjab, as constituting instead a distinct language from Punjabi.

Linguistic and historical records indicate a possible southern origin of Siouan people, with migrations over a thousand years ago from North Carolina and Virginia to Ohio.

* Friedman, V. ( 1997 ) " One Grammar, Three Lexicons: Ideological Overtones and Underpinnings of the Balkan Sprachbund " in CLS 33 Papers from the 33rd Regional Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society.

Linguistic data, however, including language reconstruction derived from the comparative method, do not reach further back than approximately 5000 years ( towards the end of the Archaic period ).

Linguistic conventions, for example, the convention in English that " cat " means cat or the convention in Portuguese that " gato " means cat, are among the most important norms.

Linguistic anthropology ( also called anthropological linguistics ) seeks to understand the processes of human communications, verbal and non-verbal, variation in language across time and space, the social uses of language, and the relationship between language and culture.

Linguistic anthropologists often draw on related fields including sociolinguistics, pragmatics, cognitive linguistics, semiotics, discourse analysis, and narrative analysis.

Linguistic ambiguity can be a problem in law ( see Ambiguity ( law )), because the interpretation of written documents and oral agreements is often of paramount importance.

Stokoe used it for his 1965 A Dictionary of American Sign Language on Linguistic Principles, the first dictionary with entries in ASL — that is, the first dictionary which one could use to look up a sign without first knowing its conventional gloss in English.

* Benedetto Croce ( 1922 ), Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic.

Before leaving Whorf presented the paper " Stem series in Maya " at the Linguistic Society of America conference, in which he argued that in the Mayan languages syllables carry symbolic content.

It was in the writings of his last two years that he laid out the research program of Linguistic relativity.

Linguistic study of the Khmer language divides its history into four periods one of which, the Old Khmer period, is subdivided into pre-Angkorian and Angkorian.

Roman Law: Linguistic, Social and Philosophical Aspects.

Studies in African Linguistic Classification.

), Selected Comparative-Historical Afrasian Linguistic Studies in Memory of Igor M. Diakonoff, LINCOM Europa, 55 – 60.

Linguistic map representing a Tree model of the Romance languages based on the comparative method.

Linguistic, historic and archeological evidence for such connections is scarce, meanwhile several such ideas were proven false, yet they lead to several pertaining misnomers in German dialectology.

Linguistic studies of the text's vocabulary and rhyme scheme point to a date of composition after the Shi Jing yet before the Zhuangzi.

The field has re-appeared in 1988 in the Linguistic Bibliography, as a subfield of psycholinguistics.

* Elvish Linguistic Fellowship, an organization that studies the invented languages of J. R. R. Tolkien

Old English: A Historical Linguistic Companion.

William Bright, then editor of Language: Journal of the Linguistic Society of America, wrote of Ethnologue that it " is indispensable for any reference shelf on the languages of the world.