Papers on Sindhi Language & Linguistics

Papers on Sindhi Language & Linguistics
Author: Allah Rakhio Butt
Publisher: Institute of Sindhology University of Sindh
Total Pages: 384
Release: 1998
Genre: Sindhi language
ISBN:

Presents 46 Papers On Sindhi Language And Linguistics Written By Renowed Scholars Including Prof. Allana On Various Aspects. The Collection Is From Scholars From Several Parts Of Europe And Asia Before The Partition Of India. The Articles Contain Historical, Archival, Current Information Useful For Research Scholars In The Field.

Web Corpus Construction

Web Corpus Construction
Author: Roland Schäfer
Publisher: Morgan & Claypool Publishers
Total Pages: 197
Release: 2013-07-01
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1627053123

The World Wide Web constitutes the largest existing source of texts written in a great variety of languages. A feasible and sound way of exploiting this data for linguistic research is to compile a static corpus for a given language. There are several adavantages of this approach: (i) Working with such corpora obviates the problems encountered when using Internet search engines in quantitative linguistic research (such as non-transparent ranking algorithms). (ii) Creating a corpus from web data is virtually free. (iii) The size of corpora compiled from the WWW may exceed by several orders of magnitudes the size of language resources offered elsewhere. (iv) The data is locally available to the user, and it can be linguistically post-processed and queried with the tools preferred by her/him. This book addresses the main practical tasks in the creation of web corpora up to giga-token size. Among these tasks are the sampling process (i.e., web crawling) and the usual cleanups including boilerplate removal and removal of duplicated content. Linguistic processing and problems with linguistic processing coming from the different kinds of noise in web corpora are also covered. Finally, the authors show how web corpora can be evaluated and compared to other corpora (such as traditionally compiled corpora).

The Origin and Growth of Sindhi Language

The Origin and Growth of Sindhi Language
Author: Gulam Allana
Publisher:
Total Pages: 338
Release: 2002
Genre: Sindhi language
ISBN:

The Book Is About The Sindhi Language One Of The Oldest In Indo-Pak Sub-Continent. Divided Into 9 Chapters-The Last Being Conclusion. A Useful Addition In The Field Of Sindhi Language And Linguistics.

Interpreting the Sindhi World

Interpreting the Sindhi World
Author: Michel Boivin
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2010
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780195477191

For more than thirty years, there has not been a project that consolidates international university-level scholarship on Sindh and Sindhis into a single forum. This book seeks to unite the wide community of scholars who work on Sindh and with Sindhis. The book's interdisciplinary focus is onhistory and society. It represents a 'snap shot' of contemporary research from different disciplines and locations. It combines interdisciplinary and multi-local approaches to describe the diversity of Sindh's 'voices' and to raise questions about how they are historically and socio-culturallydefined. Conventional studies of Sindh and Sindhis often bend the region and its people upon themselves to analyze society and history. This collection of essays treats Sindh and its people not as isolated regional entities, but rather entries in a wider socio-cultural and historical web. Sindhisare a global community and this collection generates new perspectives on them by integrating detailed studies on Pakistan with those from India and the diaspora. Such an approach contrasts with other writings by celebrating rather than erasing multi-cultural faces from Sindh's human tapestry. Byrethreading unheard socio-cultural and historical voices into understanding Sindh and its people, this collection disputes the vision of Sindhis as a monolithic Muslim population in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan.

The Languages and Linguistics of South Asia

The Languages and Linguistics of South Asia
Author: Hans Henrich Hock
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 928
Release: 2016-05-24
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3110423308

With nearly a quarter of the world’s population, members of at least five major language families plus several putative language isolates, South Asia is a fascinating arena for linguistic investigations, whether comparative-historical linguistics, studies of language contact and multilingualism, or general linguistic theory. This volume provides a state-of-the-art survey of linguistic research on the languages of South Asia, with contributions by well-known experts. Focus is both on what has been accomplished so far and on what remains unresolved or controversial and hence offers challenges for future research. In addition to covering the languages, their histories, and their genetic classification, as well as phonetics/phonology, morphology, syntax, and sociolinguistics, the volume provides special coverage of contact and convergence, indigenous South Asian grammatical traditions, applications of modern technology to South Asian languages, and South Asian writing systems. An appendix offers a classified listing of major sources and resources, both digital/online and printed.

Return Of The Aryans

Return Of The Aryans
Author: Bhagwan Gidwani
Publisher: Penguin UK
Total Pages: 1469
Release: 2000-10-14
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9351184579

A sweeping saga of ancient india Return of the Aryans tells the epic story of the Aryans – a gripping tale of kings and poets, seers and gods, battles and romance and the rise and fall of civilizations. In a remarkable feat of the imagination, Bhagwan S. Gidwani takes us back to the dawn of mankind (8000 BC) to recreate the world of the Aryans. He tells us why the Aryans left India, their native land, for foreign shores and shows us their triumphal return to their homeland... Vast and absorbing, the novel tells the stories of characters like the gentle god, Sindhu Putra, spreading his message of love; the physician sage Dhanawantar and his wife Dhanawantari; peaceloving Kashi after whom the holy city of Varanasi is named; and Nila who gave her name to the river Nile... Richly textured and with a cast of thousands, the epic adventure of the Aryans come gloriously alive in the hands of the bestselling author of The Sword of Tipu Sultan.

Global Issues in Language, Education and Development

Global Issues in Language, Education and Development
Author: Naz Rassool
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2007-01-01
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1853599514

This book examines the role that language-in-education policy, historically, has played in shaping possibilities for development, within countries in the Sub-Saharan and South Asian regions. This discussion takes account also of the complex ways in which language, education and development, are linked to the changing global labour market. Key questions are raised regarding the impact of international policy imperatives on development possibilities.