This paper describes an experiment to perform language identification on a sub-sentence basis. The typical case of language identification is to detect the language of documents or sentences. However, it may be the case that a single sentence or segment contains more than one language. This is especially the case in texts where code switching occurs.

Whose story is told in the history of art? There are many different answers to that question depending on which art history one refers to and on the perspective applied to examine these histories. One approach is to look at the traditional framework for such examinations – which to a large degree still includes categories such as state, pla ...

A recent series of publications concerning the interrelation between memory, media and history (Erll 2005, Erll/Nünning 2004&2008, Oesterle 2005) bear witness to a growing scholarly interest in issues of reconstructing, representing and conveying past events. Because of its wide reach, film plays a significant role as medium for such processes (Erll/Wodianka 2008, Erll/Rigney 2009). This study focuses ...

We employ a new empirical approach to an enduring controversy concerning the development of a system of imperfective vs. perfective verbs in Slavic. While scholars once claimed that this is an ancient inherited system, dating from the prehistoric era, most now believe that the Slavic aspect pair system is an innovation. Different opinions concerning the date of this innovation range from the time ...

Janda 2012 and Janda et al. 2013 presented the hypothesis that Russian aspectual prefixes serve as verb classifiers, similar to verb classifiers identified in Australian languages, and as the verbal analogs of numeral classifiers found primarily in Asia and Central America. We further extend this hypothesis in two directions. First, we make the point that the distinction between sortal classifiers ...

Introduction. This paper presents a research project aiming at eliciting the potential of public libraries in building social capital, and promoting generalized trust in today's multicultural society. Method. Two approaches to research, the societal approach and the institutional approach are identified. The concept of low intensive versus high intensive meeting places is presented. A survey ...