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Holdings: 1889-
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Indexing (since 1861) and abstracting (since 1980) for doctoral-level dissertations completed at North American universities. Page images or fulltext of all available dissertations - including Penn dissertations - from 1997 to present, with some earlier dissertations. Dissertations from selected European universities are also listed. Selected master's theses are included since 1988.
Holdings: Indexing 1861-present, abstracts 1980-present, page-image or fulltext PDF for available dissertations dissertations from 1997 to the present.
Basically, it's a fully searchable site, with the transcribed text of 150+ English and polyglot dictionaries and other useful collections of words, starting in 1480 -- about half are period, and the rest 17th century. The most basic functionality is that you can search for a particular term, and it will give you back the basic entries around that term.
Paid membership isn't cheap ($75/year for individuals, quite a bit for institutions), but looks like it may be quite worth it for serious research: it appears to include full-text browsing of all the sources, and lots of additional functions -- word lists, richer searching, and so on. (Frankly, I can easily see myself paying for it and just losing myself in the books for a few weeks' intellectual entertainment.)
Very neat stuff -- one of the better instances of books-as-toys that I've come across lately, and probably extremely useful for some projects...
Enormous web resource for all aspects of linguistics: covers people and organizations, jobs, conferences, publications, language resources and tools, and hosts searchable archives for many discussion groups.
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Holdings: 2000-
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American Dialect Society NOTE: Recent issues of this title (for the years 2000-2004) contain links to articles available through other online resources.
Holdings: 1925-1999
Call#: Engineering Library ENGR QA76.9.H85 G473 2001
Bibliographic citations with abstracts for materials on philanthropy, the foundation world, the nonprofit sector, and charitable giving collected by the Foundation Center libraries and other sources. Topics covered include theory, philosophy, and workings of domestic and international philanthropy; composition, administration, management, and revenue generation in the nonprofit sector; the impact of government policies and funding including legal and tax implications of local, state, and federal regulation and legislation; voluntarism and company-sponsored foundations and corporate giving; and histories of individual foundations.
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Call#: Van Pelt Library P119.32.A783 L36 2001
The Tati language group in the sociolinguistic context of Northwestern Iran and Transcaucasia
| Affiliation: | a Ph.D. in Linguistics, conducting research in the various languages of northern Iran and vicinity, University of Michigan, |
Call#: Van Pelt Library DS251 .I76
Call#: Van Pelt Library PK6388 .W4 1962a
Call#: Van Pelt Library PG1229 .A444 2006
Call#: Van Pelt Library PG1229 .A44 2006
Call#: Van Pelt Library PH625 .I65 2004
Call#: Van Pelt Library PL4251.L34 H54 2001
Call#: Van Pelt Library P381.B33 C57 2001
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Complete text of the 20-volume Second Edition, first published in 1989, with its 3-volume Additions Series, published in 1993 (vols 1 and 2) and 1997 (vol 3). Draft material for the upcoming 3rd edition (2010) also included.
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Call#: Van Pelt Library Middle East Seminar (Rm. 523) PK6235 .W52
from Martin Dahren
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date Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 8:27 AM
subject Re: Query: Origin of Armenian surnames
Try the article "Das Armenische Personennamensystem" in "Europäische Personennamensysteme: Ein Handbuch von Abasisch bis Zentralladinisch", ed. by A. & S. Brendler (Hamburg 2007), pp. 57-66. It includes on p. 64-65 a topical bibliography that lists all serious publications on the subjects incl. etymological dictionaries of Armenian surnames.
I have no access to the book at the moment, so I cannot give you any more details. I analyzed the book recently. It is a real treasure systematically dealing with the personal names of 77 languages in today's Europe.
Martin Dahren
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http://www.amazon.de/Europ%C3%A4ische-Personennamensysteme-Handbuch-Abasisch-Zentralladinisch/dp/3935536658
145 EUROS
Call#: University Museum Library MUSEUM QK402.K4 K68 1998
Includes bibliographical references (p. 263).
Call#: Van Pelt Library PL8375.4 .O34 2005
Call#: Van Pelt Library PL8375.4 .G73 2006
Call#: University Museum Library MUSEUM 496.27 L646G
Call#: Van Pelt Library PL8143 .S7
Call#: Van Pelt Library PL8375.1 .T83 1994
Call#: Van Pelt Library PL8232 .S613 1982
Call#: Van Pelt Library PL8232 .S613 1982
Call#: Van Pelt Library PL8631.1 .H88 1981
| Suggests the outlines of a theory of how sociocultural and grammatical knowledge are integrated in the construction of personal names and how such knowledge can be retrieved from surface linguistic forms. Draws on anthropological and linguistic procedures to analyse the Yoruba personal naming system and the sociolinguistic principles that underly it. |
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Abstract: The circumstances of a child's birth define his or her starting point in life, and they will be inscribed in the child's file, so to speak, by means of a set of rule-governed birth names. These 'child names' are perfectly suitable for this initial stage of life, but all BaatOmbu aspire one day to replace this original set of 'orthodox' names by another orthodox name, an inherited title name, corresponding to an achieved social and spiritual status. Commoners and nobles have separate institutions of "g[unknown][unknown]biru", 'inherited title names', but in both cases the successive bearers of a "g[unknown][unknown]biru" share an exemplary essence that each must honour and perpetuate with his life. Baat[unknown]nu nobles bestow baptism names on children around the age of seven, allowing these young candidates for the various "g[unknown][unknown]biru" to be matched, according to their potential, with a name whose influence will guide them into adulthood. Joking names and teknonyms can be classified as non-orthodox or informal names and seem to fill a gap left by the orthodox names, allowing personal and family relations to be expressed and negotiated. These names carry no prestige, but their use affords pride and pleasure and, unlike orthodox names, they can be used without infringing 'shame'-based taboos./
Call Number: P1 .A6
Status: Available, check location
Library Has: v.1 (1959)-
Notes: Currently received. Unbound issues in Current Periodicals.
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Journal of African Cultural Studies, Vol. 11, No. 1. (Jun., 1998), pp. 73-83.
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Abstract: Personal names (anthroponyms) are human resources for identifying and categorizing individuals. They constitute one of the universal parts of language which have drawn the attention of anthropologists and linguists alike. Our contribution to studies on Igbo personal names here is from a linguistic/anthropological perspective. This paper undertakes in-depth linguistic and anthropological studies of Igbo market-day names.
African Studies Review, Vol. 47, No. 3. (Dec., 2004), pp. 143-163.
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Abstract: This article shows the links between naming practices and war. The focus is on MPLA war names used during the Angolan struggle for independence. These names are framed in the wider context of the relations between language and war. In many African contexts, names are not singular and fixed, but may change with every personal transformation. Entering the life of a soldier constitutes just such a drastic change. The article shows that through war names, a kaleidoscope of issues may be addressed, including the relations between language, rank, and power, personal history and popular culture, spirit possession and resurrection, self-description and labeling, writing and legitimacy, and secrecy and identity.///Cet article met en evidence le lien entre les pratiques nominatives liees et la guerre. Il se concentre sur les noms de guerre employes par le MPLA (Partido do Poder em Angola) pendant le conflit angolais pour l'independance. Ces noms sont envisages dans le contexte plus vaste des relations entre la langue et la guerre. Dans de nombreux contextes africains, les noms ne sont pas signuliers ou definitifs, mais ils evoluent souvent avec chaque transformation personnelle. L'entree dans la vie de soldat constitue un exemple radical de ce type de transformation. L'article montre comment, a travers les noms de guerre, un eventail de questions peuvent etre adressees, y compris les relations entre la langue, la hierarchie et le pouvoir, l'histoire individuelle et la culture populaire, les phenomenes de possession et de resurrection, l'auto description et le choix du nom, l'ecriture et la legitimite et enfin, le secret et l'identite.
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The VLC Language Index
Date: 18-Feb-2008
From: Juergen Handke <handke@staff.uni-marburg.de>
Subject: The VLC Language Index
The Virtual Linguistics Campus' language index, which exhibits more than
130 languages (more than 75 with full audio support) has now been made
available to all VLC-community members. Currently, the VLC language index
hosts the following number of languages:
Afro-Asiatic, 7
Algonquian, 7
Altaic, 4
Austro-Asiatic, 4
Austronesian, 2
Caucasian, 1
Creole, 3
Dravidian, 2
Eskimo-Aleut, 3
independent, 4
Indo-European, 45
Na-Dene, 24
Niger-Congo, 7
Nilo-Saharan, 2
Sino-Tibetan, 7
South American, 2
Uralic, 3
After login, all VLC-community members will now find their own toolbox from
which they can access the VLC language map with the following
cross-linguistic options:
- cognate comparison (full audio support)
- menu-driven typological parameter comparison
- access to all languages via mouse click
- information about language families/phyla
Each language is presented with the following information:
- general typological information
- a spoken welcoming message
- the spoken and transliterated story ''The North wind and the Sun''
- a dozen phrases and sentences
- the numbers 1 to 10
- additional information about the language
- information about the speaker
For all speakers of languages that have no audio information yet or that
have not been represented in the VLC index at all, the VLC-team would be
very pleased to hear from you and incorporate your language into the VLC
language index.
Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics
Call#: Van Pelt Library PL8005 .M87 2000
Call#: Van Pelt Library PL8005 .A24 2000
Covers cultural and social anthropology, archaeology, biological and physical anthropology, and linguistics. Languages include English, Spanish, French, German, Polish, Russian, Italian, and others.
Holdings: 1970 to the present. Limited data for the late 1960s.
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Bibliographic citations and subject indexing for the international journal article and book literature in anthropology, economics, political science, and sociology. Produced by British Library of Political and Economic Science, London School of Economics and Political Science, with the support and assistance of International Committee for Social Science Information and Documentation and UNESCO.
Holdings: Covers 1951 to the present in three separate files.
Social, cultural, physical, biological, and linguistic anthropology, ethnology, archaeology, folklore, material culture, and interdisciplinary studies. Articles in related fields including art, demography, ethnohistory, folklore, geography, human genetics, international development, linguistics, religion, and sociology are also indexed. Languages included English (80%), French, German, Spanish, Polish, Italian, and others.
Holdings: Late 19th century to the present. Updated quarterly.
Covers literature, languages, folklore, and linguistics. Includes English and foreign languages.
Holdings: Covers 1963 to the present. New records are added ten times a year.
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Linguistics, literacy, language acquisition, speech and hearing, and language research.
Holdings: 1973 to present.
Call#: Van Pelt Library PK6859 .L36 2000
Some Thoughts and Material on Balochi in Afghanistan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259
Lutz Rzehak
Linguistic influences on the Balochi spoken in Karachi -- Tim Farrell
Contents
Preface . 9
Introduction 11
Part I. Historical Linguistics
The Structure of Present and Past Stems in Balochi
Compared to Old, Middle and New Persian 19
Behrooz Barjasteh Delforooz
Language Contact in Balochistan from the Indian Point of View 33
Gunilla Gren-Eklund
Balochi and the Concept of North-Western Iranian . 49
Agnes Korn
The Position of Balochi among Western Iranian Languages:
The Verbal System . 61
Ludwig Paul
Part II. Language Contact in Modern Times
Iran
The Sarawani Dialect of Balochi and Persian Influence on It 75
Adam Nader Baranzehi
The Case System in Iranian Balochi in a Contact Linguistic Perspective 113
Carina Jahani
Notes on the Tense System in Balochi and Standard Persian . 133
Behrooz Mahmoodi Bakhtiari
Linguistic Contact in Iranian Balochistan in Historical and Modern Times . 147
Moosa Mahmoodzahi
6 Contents
Pakistan
Acquiring a Multilingual Repertoire in Quetta, Balochistan 157
Bernice Archer
Linguistic Influences on the Balochi Spoken in Karachi 169
Tim Farrell
Some Structural and Lexical Similarities between Balochi and Brahui 211
Abdul Razzak Sabir
Linguistic Contact in the Baloch-Pushtun Boundary Zone . 221
Paul Titus
Other countries
The Baloch in the Arabian Gulf States 237
Saeed Mohammad al Ameeri
The Balochi Language in Turkmenistan . 245
Serge Axenov
Some Thoughts and Material on Balochi in Afghanistan 259
Lutz Rzehak
Part III. History, Culture, and the Future of the Balochi Language
Language Contact in Balochistan and Its Impact on Balochi Personal Names . 279
Sabir Badalkhan
Towards the Interpretation of the Term bal¯oˇc in the Š¯ahn¯ame 313
Vahe Boyajian
Periodicals in Balochi: A Brief Description of Balochi Printed Media 321
Saba Dashtyari
On the Difficulty of Telling a Slave from a Wife 343
Nina Swidler
Contents 7
Appendix
Bibliography 359
List of Contributors . 373
Maps:
1. Areas of Dravidian and Mu ˙ n ˙da Languages . 44
2. Sarawan (Iranian Balochistan) 76
3. Balochi Settlements in Karachi . 170
4. The Khanate of Kalat 344
5. Brahui and Balochi Speaking Households in Pakistan by Districts . 375
6. Ethnic Groups in Afghanistan 376
7. Ethnic Groups in Balochistan 377
8. Balochi and Main Neighbouring Languages 378
9. Approximate Location of Balochi Dialects . 379
10. Topographical Map of Balochistan 380
Call#: Van Pelt Library PK6853 .G5
Call#: Van Pelt Library P299.H66 P6 1992
Call#: Van Pelt Library South Asia Reference (Rm. 551) PK177 .T4
Call#: Storage: From RECORD page, use Place Request tab PK1933 .M54 1977
Call#: Van Pelt Library P40.5.F67 B7 1988
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Call#: Van Pelt Library PK6798.K3 P4
Call#: Van Pelt Library PK6783 .M6
Enormous web resource for all aspects of linguistics: covers people and organizations, jobs, conferences, publications, language resources and tools, and hosts searchable archives for many discussion groups.
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A "central repository for the most current and topical electronic resources" in cognitive science and its six core areas: philosophy of mind, computational intelligence, cognitive psychology, linguistics, neuroscience, and cognitive anthropology.