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Language Change: Progress or Decay?

Book by Jean Aitchison; Cambridge University Press, 2001

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Linguistic Change

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...real importance in a study of language change. Errors of ignorance...for utterance. 34 Language decay Disorders which arise from...if any, similarities with language change. A problem found sometimes...is sometimes asserted that language decays in an orderly fashion, in...
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Imperial Ends: The Decay, Collapse, and Revival of Empires

Book by Alexander J. Motyl; Columbia University Press, 2001

Subjects:

Civilization, Modern--20th Century--Philosophy, Civilization, Western--Philosophy, Europe--History--1871-1918, Nationalism--History--20th Century, Revolutions, Soviet Union--History--1985-1991, Turkey--History--Revolution, 1918-1923

Collections: History, Philosophy, Entire Library

...imperial structure produces decay. We still have to get from decay the loosening of C-P ties...relatively straightforward once decay is in place. Attrition Although...experience, in Deutsch's language, either overload in the core...
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Uganda Now: Between Decay & Development

Book by Holger Bernt Hansen, Michael Twaddle; James Currey, 1988

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Uganda--Economic Conditions--1979-, Uganda--History--1979-

Collections: History, Entire Library

...disruption had a lot to do with the decay of the post- colonial state...that heritage. Today the language of that lumpen militariat...alongside French as the official language of the state. Of the accepted national languages of Zaire -- Kikongo, Chiluba...indigenous empires. It is the language of those who were particularly...
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The Law of Civilization and Decay: An Essay on History

Book by Brooks Adams; Sonnenschein, 1895

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History--Philosophy

Collections: History, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Their art was not a chattel to be bought, but an inspired language in which they communed with God, or taught the people, and...advent of portraiture has usually been considered to portend decay, and rightly, since the presence of the portrait demonstrates...
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Political Development and Political Decay in Bengal

Book by Marcus F. Franda; K L. Mukhopadhyay, 1971

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Bengal (India)--Politics And Government

Collections: History, Entire Library

...literature and culture. 4 Bengali language itself, which flourished under...5 The development of the Bengali language is analyzed in S. K. Chatterji...Origin and Development of the Bengali Language Calcutta University Press, 1926...

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Touring Decay: Nineteenth-Century American Travel Writers in Europe

Journal article by Jeffrey Alan Melton; Papers on Language & Literature, Vol. 35, 1999

Subjects:

Americans in foreign countries--Literature, Authors, American--Influence, Travel in literature--19th century, Travel--Literature

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

Touring Decay: Nineteenth-Century American Travel Writers...Europe only to find a culture largely in decay and a society besieged by corruption.1...achievements without accepting the ruin and decay they associated with them. This balance...
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Decay Characteristics of the Eastern Lapita Design System

Journal article by Geoffrey Clark, Tim Murray; Archaeology in Oceania, Vol. 41, 2006

Subjects:

Ancient pottery--Design and construction, Ancient pottery--Research, Lapita culture--Research, Pottery, Ancient--Design and construction, Pottery, Ancient--Research, Social decay--Research

Collections: History, Entire Library

Decay Characteristics of the Eastern...decorative system, design decay, Pacific A fundamental issue...related human groups--and their language(s)--to incrementally establish...colonization, due to rapid decay of the Lapita decorative system...
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Students' Beliefs about the Role of Atoms in Radioactive Decay and Half-life

Journal article by Edward Prather; Journal of Geoscience Education, Vol. 53, 2005

Subjects:

Atoms & subatomic particles, Middle school students, Radiation, Radioactivity, Teaching methods

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...best reflect the natural language used by students during...represent the radioactive decay processes associated...best match the natural language used by students to describe...happens to an atom during decay. By contrast, the phrase...that arises when the language "from the atom" is...
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The Word-length Effect Provides No Evidence for Decay in Short-term Memory

Journal article by Stephan Lewandowsky, Klaus Oberauer; Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, Vol. 15, 2008

Subjects:

Alternatives, Hypotheses, Probability, Research & development--R&D, Studies

Collections: Psychology, Entire Library

...WLE | decay) > P(WLE | no decay). Less technically, we acknowledge...whether forgetting is due to decay or to some other factor, such...memory or about the role of language production for recall of verbal...models that did not rely on decay. Our analysis, however, differs...
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The Power of Ephemera: Permanence and Decay in Protective Power Objects

Journal article by Aimee Bessire; African Arts, Vol. 42, 2009

Subjects:

African culture--Analysis, Elixirs--Storage

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...danger of theft and harm. With its gentle decay, the spider also represents what some...Recently one healer highlighted age and slow decay as a factor in the ongoing life of protective...objects, suggesting that "as the container decays, the energies of the substances begin to disperse and the materials decay and fall back into the earth." (45...

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Japan's Inexorable Decay: The Exponential Growth of Political Failure

Magazine article by William H. Overholt; The International Economy, Vol. 24, Fall 2010

Subjects:

Democratic Party of Japan--Growth, Political parties--China, Political parties--Japan

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Japans Inexorable Decay: The Exponential Growth of Political Failure...effective-party system that continued the decay of a regime that has been in decline since...probably does not end Japans long political decay. What brought Japan to this state? The...
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The Law of the Bullet: The Story of Somalia's Troubles Can Be Read in the Decay of Its Capital, Mogadishu. as the Country Is Once More Gripped by Drought, Xan Rice Charts Its Downfall

Magazine article; New Statesman (1996), Vol. 140, August 1, 2011

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Clans--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Droughts--Economic aspects, Droughts--Social aspects, Droughts--Somalia, Mogadishu, Somalia--Environmental aspects, Mogadishu, Somalia--Political aspects, Mogadishu, Somalia--Social aspects, Political violence

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...Bullet: The Story of Somalias Troubles Can Be Read in the Decay of Its Capital, Mogadishu. as the Country Is Once More Gripped...Somalias main clans. The people looked the same, spoke the same language, and were all Muslims. Yet the Darods, including Abbi...
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Keeping a Civil Tongue: An English Critic Decries the Decline of His Language-And His Civilization

Magazine article by B.R. Myers; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 301, April 2008

Subjects:

Authors--Criticism and interpretation, Authors--Works, Robinson, Ian--Criticism and interpretation, Robinson, Ian--Works, The Survival of English: Essays in Criticism of Language (Book)--Criticism and interpretation, Writers--Criticism and interpretation, Writers--Works

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...nations in general. "Decline of language is the decline of the life...Anglophone worlds foremost critic of language. In his first book, published...Britain in moral and cultural decay. Although this may sound like...most entertaining books on language ever written. Its demolition...
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A Dictionary of the English Language

Magazine article by Jonathan Clark; History Today, Vol. 46, December 1996

Subjects:

Electronic books--Evaluation

Collections: History, Entire Library

...Dictionary of the English Language by Jonathan Clark What makes...that bears translation into languages other than that in which it...Standard Generalized Markup Language. This allows the reader both...linguistic usage. Change and decay in the English language, as in English politics...
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The Man Who Loved Languages: A Scholar with the Ability and Audacity to Rebuild the Tower of Babel Died a Year Ago, but His Controversial Project Lives On

Magazine article by Richard B. Woodward; American Scholar, Vol. 75, Autumn 2006

Subjects:

Linguistics--Research, Linguists--Research, Starostin, Sergei--Research

Collections: Entire Library

...from two or many more languages--or superfamilies...estimate when one language or family separated...sample. If vocabulary decays at a steady rate...cognates shared by two languages, the more recently...notion that words decay at a uniform rate...Weve gathered languages into about a dozen...constant rate of word decay as a criterion for language divergence. "I should...

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Government's English; One Ought to Recognize That the Present Political Chaos Is Connected with the Decay of Language, and That Can Probably Bring about Some Improvement by Starting at the Verbal Level. -- George Orwell

Newspaper article; Manila Bulletin, September 12, 2006

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

Governments English; One Ought to Recognize That the Present Political Chaos Is Connected with the Decay of Language, and That Can Probably Bring about Some Improvement by Starting at the Verbal Level. -- George Orwell. Byline: Adrian E...
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'Hostel' Grotesquely Overbooked; Roth Horror Flick Coaxes a Moral Message from Gritty, Gory Decay

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, January 9, 2006

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Coaxes a Moral Message from Gritty, Gory Decay. Byline: Christian Toto, THE WASHINGTON...a slippery slope toward ultimate moral decay. We see it throughout the final sequences...copious nudity, sexual situations, adult language and drug use) CREDITS: Written and directed...
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Our Classroom Is like Guantanamo; as the Department Hoards Money, Desperate Teachers Reveal the Squalor and Decay

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), November 5, 2010

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Desperate Teachers Reveal the Squalor and Decay. Byline: Catherine Fegan and Ian Carey...herself -- have turned up at the Irish-language school in cabra, each time promising...does not have any permanent buildings Decay: Constant battle with repairs and upkeep...
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Ant and Decay. PETERBOROUGH

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), February 7, 2006

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

Ant and Decay. PETERBOROUGH. THE following, to which I wish I could claim copyright...terrorise the community. Graham S. Smith, Kingswood, Surrey. Sign language ANIMAL CRACKERS? Maybe Arthur Boyt, who recently wrote a cookbook of...
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Answer to a Prayer; Roman Catholic Schools Reject Academic and Religious Decay

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, September 9, 2003

Subjects:

Monaghan, Thomas S.

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...prayer; Roman Catholic schools reject academic and religious decay. Byline: Julia Duin, THE WASHINGTON TIMES YPSILANTI, Mich...theology, philosophy, metaphysics and at least one foreign language. "Most Catholic universities today have abandoned or drastically...

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China

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...spoken as a first or second language by roughly half of the population. The written language is universal; Chinese ideographs...dynasty (265 420) with the decay of central authority. Under...simplify the Chinese written language. Labor agitation, especially...
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Yugoslav Literature

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...War II, Macedonian languages. The Serbian and Croatian literary languages are similar and generally...Roman. The Slovenian language uses the Roman alphabet...developed a literary language based on popular speech...revealed Croat social decay and criticized German...one of the official languages of Yugoslavia, writers...
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Science

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...it is frequently referred to as the language of science, the most important and objective...determination, and they developed written language and early mathematics for this purpose...found to change not only by radioactive decay but also by more dramatic processes nuclear...
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Byzantine Empire

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Hellenic culture, and Christian beliefs. Greek was the prevalent language, but Latin long continued in official use. See the table...and gross violence marked the course of events; yet moral decay did not prevent such emperors as Basil I, founder of the Macedonian...
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Toynbee, Arnold Joseph

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...to the Paris Peace Conference. He was professor of Greek language and history (1919 55) at the Univ. of London and director...History, an investigation into the growth, development, and decay of civilizations, the problems of history are considered in...

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