African Linguistics in Central and Eastern Europe, and in the Nordic Countries

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Language endangerment and language documentation in Africa

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Measurement of the forward-backward asymmetry of e+e-→Z→ {Mathematical expression} using prompt leptons and a lifetime tag

The forward-backward asymmetry of the process e+e-→Z→b {Mathematical expression} has been measured using events collected by the DELPHI experiment during the 1991 and 1992 LEP runs. This data sample corresponded to 884 000 hadronic Z decays at a centre-of-mass energy {Mathematical expression}. The tagging of b-quark events was performed using two approaches; the first was based on the semileptonic decay channels b→X+μ and b→X+e, the second used a lifetime tag with jet-charge reconstruction. The results of these two methods were combined to give {Mathematical expression} With the semileptonic sample, the forward-backward asymmetry of the process e+e-→Z→ {Mathematical expression} was also measured to be {Mathematical expression} The effective value of the Weinberg mixing angle derived from these measurements was {Mathematical expression} © 1995 Springer-Verlag

Measurement of the forward - backward asymmetry of e+ e- ---> Z ---> b anti-b using prompt leptons and a lifetime tag

The forward-backward asymmetry of the processe + e −→Z→b bbˉ has been measured using events collected by the DELPHI experiment during the 1991 and 1992 LEP runs. This data sample corresponded to 884 000 hadronicZ decays at a centre-of-mass energy s√∼MZ . The tagging of b-quark events was performed using two approaches; the first was based on the semileptonic decay channelsb→X+μ andb→X+e, the second used a lifetime tag with jet-charge reconstruction. The results of these two methods were combined to give AbbˉFB=0.107±0.011(stat.+syst.+mixing). With the semileptonic sample, the forward-backward asymmetry of the processe + e −→Z→ ccˉ was also measured to be AccˉFB=0.083±0.022(stat.)±0.016(syst.). The effective value of the Weinberg mixing angle derived from these measurements was sin2θlepeff=0.2294±0.0021

African Linguistics in Asia and Australia

Asian and Australian institutions with a research focus on African languages are of fairly recent vintage. Japan has a strong academic infrastructure devoted to African linguistics, based in several universities and research centres. China looks back more than 50 years of interest in teaching Swahili and other major African languages, recently broadening the scope to encompass other issues of linguistic interest. In South Korea, teaching Swahili was also the precursor of more general African linguistics, allowing for regional specializations of researchers. In Australia, academic interest emerges with the increasing presence of experts on African languages and linguistics in the country

Afroasiatic linguistic features and typologies

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African Linguistics in the Americas, Asia and Australia.

This book provides an in-depth and comprehensive state-of-the-art study of African languages and language in Africa since its beginnings as a colonial science at the turn of the twentieth century in Europe

Situated Language Use in Africa

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