The well-known fact of great changes which have taken place in Russia in the past twenty years finds its confirmation in the drastic change of the literary tastes of the Russian readers. Literature has lost its impact on the spiritual life of a common man, and people feel free to admit that they do not read classic literature, that they do not buy serious fiction. This literature demands a certain ...

Designed to serve as a textbook for courses in statistical analysis in linguistics, this book orients the reader to various quantitative methods and explains their implications for the field. The methods include chi-square, Fisher test, binomial test, ANOVA, correlation, regression, and cluster analysis. The advantages and limitations of each method are detailed and each method is illustrated with ...

The advocates of intelligent design hold that important properties or aspects of nature are intended i.e., that they are the results of intelligent planning and design. In other words, they maintain that some features of cosmos and nature (i.e., the physical universe and the living things) are caused by nonhuman intelligence. Nothing in particular is said about the nature of the designer. ...

Nowadays science and Christianity are mainly seen as two completely separate contributions to our daily life and culture. In this paper I intend to argue that historically and conceptually, science and Christianity should in fact be seen as very closely related entities. The new kind of science, which was introduced about 400 yeas ago, was very much inspired by the Christian world-view which ...

Historical linguistics has always been a cornerstone in Russian studies, and most programs have traditionally included courses in Old Church Slavonic (OCS) and the history of Russian. But do such courses have a place in curricula of the future? In this article, I argue that historical linguistics is more relevant than ever, and I discuss seven pedagogical ...