This very useful website, created and maintained by linguist Dr Ayman Eddakrouri, is designed as a directory to Arabic linguistic corpora. Three main sections are available: Arabic corpora: Web-based (searchable) corpora and Textual corpora (Text Files) Centers/Institutions Software/Tools https://sites.google.com/a/aucegypt.edu/infoguistics/directory/Corpus-Linguistics/arabic-corpora
We now have a trial access to the online version of the Rare Journals of the Burma Research Society until the 2nd of July 2015. There are two options for you to access the online database: The link for on-campus access: http://portal.igpublish.com/iglibrary/ (no login required, when you are in SOAS buildings using SOAS Internet) The link for off-campus access: https://ezproxy.soas.ac.uk/login?url=http://portal.igpublish.com/iglibrary/ (login required with your normal SOAS Login) Note: external members
The Routledge handbook of historical linguistics / edited by Claire Bowern and Bethwyn Evans. [The Routledge Handbook of Historical Linguistics provides a survey of the field covering the methods which underpin current work; models of language change; and the importance of historical linguistics for other subfields of linguistics and other disciplines.] Logics of conversation / Nicholas Asher, Alex Lascarides. Correlatives cross-linguistically [electronic resource] / edited by Anikó Lipták. [Available to SOAS
Interested in Coptic language and history? The Coptic Studies department at Macquarie University (Sydney, Australia) had put together a “traditional” bibliography covering Egyptian history in the first millennium C.E., Coptic language and dialects and Coptic art and archaeology for their staff and students Please note that Coptic Bibliographies does not contain links to full-text. Some external links to book reviews etc. have been added. Click here to access Coptic Bibliographies
Hebrew Studies is an internationally recognized scholarly journal for the study of the Hebrew language and literature across all periods. Content after 1990 has now been made available on the Free Library platform Click here to access Hebrew Studies on open-access via AWOL (Ancient World Online) SOAS Library has holdings of Hebrew Studies in print from No.17 (1976) onward, and the preceding title Hebrew Abstracts from No.1 (1954) to
All of these titles are available to all users on-campus, and to SOAS staff & students off-campus (where possible) using SOAS id and password to login. Africana Linguistica Volume 17 (2011) onwards. [on-campus only] Humanity: An International Journal of Human Rights, Humanitarianism, and Development Volume 1(2010) onwards. Critical Policy Studies Volume 1 (2007) onwards. Food Chain Volume 1(2011) onwards. Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy Volume 22(2004) onwards. Environment
Perspectives on aspect / edited by Henk J. Verkuyl, Henriette de Swart and Angeliek van Hout. Translating the multilingual city : cross-lingual practices and language ideology / Tong-King Lee. Verbs : aspect and causal structure / William Croft. Language attitudes, standardization and language change : perspectives on themes raised by Tore Kristiansen on the occasion of his 60th birthday / Marie Maegaard, Frans Gregersen, Pia Quist and J.Normann Jørgensen (eds.).
The People’s Republic of China at 60 : an international assessment / edited by William C. Kirby. The gender of memory : rural women and China’s collective past / Gail Hershatter. China maritime customs and China’s trade statistics, 1859-1948 / Thomas P. Lyons. Dancing for the dead [videorecording] : funeral strippers in Taiwan / a Marc L. Moskowitz film. A Jesuit garden in Beijing and early modern Chinese culture /
Islam Les deux routes syrienne et égyptienne de pèlerinage au nord-ouest de l’Arabie Saoudite / Alî Ibrâhîm al-Ghabbân. Maṭāliʻ al-nūr al-sanī al-munbiʼ ʻan ṭahāraẗ nasab al-Nabiyy al-ʻarabī / ʻan ʻAbdī Afandī al-Būsnawī taḥqīq Josef Dreher.;”مطالع النو السنّي المنبيء عن طهارة نسب النب العربي / عن عبدي أفندي البوسنوي تحقيق يوسف دريهر” Family planning in the legacy of Islam / Abdel Rahim Omran Rock the Casbah : rage and rebellion across the
Amazing research… In a collaborative research project, Microsoft Research Asia and Institute of Computing Technology at the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) have been using the XBox 360 Kinect motion sensor’s body-tracking capabilities to provide sign language recognition capabilities for the deaf and hard-of-hearing. The team have released a new paper (PDF). See their work demonstrated in this video: http://youtu.be/pFUClV1FNYo [Via: TheRegister]
