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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"diachronic analysis"”.
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A Diachronic Analysis of Western Armenian Verbal Morphology
… Western Armenian (WA) verbal morphology from a diachronic perspective and perform an internal reconstruction to trace the modern Western dialects back to Classical Armenian (CA) or an older, unattested variant of Armenian. The dissertation’s methodology (Chapter 1) is based on comparative …
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A diachronic analysis of porotic hyperostosis in prehistoric populations of northern Chile
A macroscopic analysis of 604 skeletal remains was undertaken at the Museo Arqueologico de San Miguel de Azapa (MASMA) in order to ascertain the rates of porotic hyperostosis in the prehistoric populations of northern Chile. Porotic hyperostosis has been recognized as being a useful indicator of …
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Evil, Ontology, and Scripture: A Diachronic Analysis of Augustine of Hippo's Privatio Boni Concept
… methodology of establishing context, engaging in diachronic analysis, and conducting a comparative study.</p> <p>Chapter 1 also establishes a historical-contextual benchmark by analyzing Augustine’s autobiographical Confessions to reveal the basic contours of Privatio Boni with its chronological …
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A Diachronic Analysis of the Use of Scripture in the Variant Versions of the Apocryphon of John
<p>This dissertation explores at length the Apocryphon of John's ambivalent treatment of the Jewish and Christian scriptures. Although Moses is explicitly corrected at five points in the text--four times mentioned by name (NHC II 13,18-21; 22,22-25; 23,3-4; and 29,6-10) and one time by inference …
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Modelling the hydrological response of an urban watershed Diachronic analysis of the effects of land use changes on storm runoff generation in the Upper Bukit Timah basin, Singapore
… the final adjustment of the SWMM model, a diachronic analysis was performed in order to present the effects of urbanisation on runoff.
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Wind, Wave, and Generative Metaphor in Greek
A diachronic analysis of the so-called 'Ship of State' metaphor, with the premise that the more sophisticated trope of Archaic lyric poetry is an elaboration of a larger cognitive metaphor that appears in the earliest Greek texts.
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Exploring the Social Lives of Cylinder Seals in Late Cypriot Society
… within their new Cypriot cultural context. The diachronic analysis of the cylinder seals found in different types of sites across the island highlights distinctive patterns of appropriation as well as cultural and material entanglement. It further allows us to explore how these objects were used …
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VIRGIN POLITICS: AN IDEOGRAPHICAL ANALYSIS OF "VIRGINITY" IN THE EGYTPIAN VIRGINTY TESTS
… in Egypt. I utilize both a synchronic and diachronic analysis of the ideograph "virginity" in Egypt, and argue that it is structured in both a religious and patriarchal meta-discourse used to demarcate the role of the "good women." I also analyze Samira Ibrahim's response to the virginity …
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A comparative, diachronic study of television dubbing in Galicia and Catalonia (1983-2007)
This thesis is a comparative, diachronic analysis of dubbing for television in Galicia and Catalonia from the mid-1980s to 2007. Drawing on approaches in comparative translation studies, this thesis aims to analyse, compare and triangulate different forms of historical macro-, meso- and micro-level …
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Uno specchio frammentario. La soggettività umana in H. G. Gadamer tra determinazione storica e responsabilità al singolare
… to the language, since through it an accurate diachronic analysis was possible about this theme in the author’s writing. Subsequently to this founding part we have outlined the subject of a social reason, understood as a collective concrete matter which inserts itself in the social dialogue and …
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Seeking Meaning in the Hebrew Bible: A Lexicographical Study of בקש and דרש using Structuralist and Cognitivist Linguistic Tools.
… Cognitive Linguistics, to present an original diachronic analysis of the relationship between the Hebrew Bible’s verbs of ‘Seeking’ and their semantic interdependence. Key concepts from Cognitive Linguistics – such as Embodiment, Inter-subjectivity, and Motion-Space – alongside Prototype Theory …
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National identity and "Muslim immigrant" representation in the British and Danish press, 2005-2015.
This thesis examines, through a diachronic analysis, how the British and Danish press utilise national identity when constructing a representation of Muslims. Key cluster events are examined to identify media discourses over a ten-year time period between 2005 and 2015. Textual analysis in the form …
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The Spoken British National Corpus 2014 : design, compilation and analysis
… potential of the corpus, by presenting a diachronic analysis of ‘bad language’ in spoken British English, comparing the 1990s to the 2010s. The thesis shows how the research team struck a delicate balance between backwards compatibility with the Spoken BNC1994 and optimal practice in the …
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The impact of the regicide of Charles I on contemporary English notions of time and the future
… writers, and newsbook authors, performing a diachronic analysis of their publications to understand how their ideas of time and the future evolved in the tumultuous time of civil war and regicide. Through a close examination of sources like almanacs, newsbooks, and polemical histories, I …
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CROW - CultuRal co-evOlution of corvids: Winged omens of the times
… archaeological presence, zooarchaeological analysis and isotopic data, it provides a detailed diachronic analysis that reveals how attitudes to corvids have changed through time. This study determined that vilification and intentional killing of corvids is far more modern than previously …
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CROW - CultuRal co-evOlution of corvids: Winged omens of the times
… archaeological presence, zooarchaeological analysis and isotopic data, it provides a detailed diachronic analysis that reveals how attitudes to corvids have changed through time. This study determined that vilification and intentional killing of corvids is far more modern than previously …
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The Minzu Debate: Policy Subsystem, Knowledge Community, and Academic Discourse in Post-Mao China’s Ethnic Policy-Making
… academic policy debates in Post-Mao based on a diachronic analysis of the minzu debate, thus advancing our theoretical knowledge about the political-sociological conditions for intellectual innovations in contemporary PRC’s policy field; and finally, 3) it suggests insights for understanding …
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Literary Historicism: Conquest and Revolution in the Works of Carlos Fuentes (1928-2012) and Alejo Carpentier (1904-1980)
… This section comprises a transversal and diachronic analysis of their Revolution cycles to demonstrate recurrent narrative, thematic and stylistic patterns in Fuentes’s and Carpentier’s literary portrayals of this historical phenomenon. I highlight the further meaning that these patterns …
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Values That Shape the Social Morphology of the Town Center in Binan, Laguna, Philippines
… the built environment in a confined synchonic analysis. This exploratory study will bridge the gap between the users and the built environment by employing the diachronic analysis using the following methods: personal interviews, site observations, behavioral mapping, and urban morphological …
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Kinship in post-socialist Mongolia : its revival and reinvention.
… revive through "old" traditions and memories. A diachronic analysis of kin terms (from the eighteenth century until today) in Chapter 2 illustrates the changes that have taken place in kinship terminology that reflect changes at the theoretical level. The practical aspects of kinship are examined …
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