The Rise and Fall of Airbnb in New York

The homesharing website Airbnb has been a controversial presence in New York City and New York state for years. This capstone explores the company\u27s political contributions, lobbying and public relations strategies in the city and the state. A link to the project can be found here: http://nominuj.com/airbn

The Fulaan Bulog 'Red Springs' and the Mongol presence in the Huzhu Tu (Mongghul) area, Qinghai Province, PR China

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On the typology and the worship status of sacred trees with a special reference to the Middle East

This article contains the reasons for the establishment of sacred trees in Israel based on a field study. It includes 97 interviews with Muslim and Druze informants. While Muslims (Arabs and Bedouins) consider sacred trees especially as an abode of righteous figures' (Wellis') souls or as having a connection to their graves, the Druze relate sacred trees especially to the events or deeds in the lives of prophets and religious leaders. A literary review shows the existence of 24 known reasons for the establishment of sacred trees worldwide, 11 of which are known in Israel one of these is reported here for the first time. We found different trends in monotheistic and polytheistic religions concerning their current worship of sacred trees

Studies on Mongolian verb morphology

LoC Class: PL404, LoC Subject Headings: Mongolian language--Morpholog

Studies on Mongolian verb morphology

grantor: University of TorontoThis dissertation studies Mongolian verb morphology on the basis of the Modern Mongolian (Inner Mongolia) materials. It is based on the descriptive and theoretical advances made in modern linguistics and provides extensive analysis of the key issues concerning verb morphology with regard to the Mongolian situation. The dissertation consists of seven chapters, but the main concern of the thesis is essentially twofold, the derivational and inflectional morphemes of the verbs. The first section presents a discussion of verb derivation, focusing on the issue of the verb derived by suffixation. The second part is a discussion of the inflectional categories of the verb. In this section, we deal with several issues, such as converb, auxiliary, tense, aspect, mood, voice, and the causative. Converbs can be divided into contextual and specialized converbs by semantic criteria and each of these converbs expresses particular circumstantial meanings. The auxiliary in Mongolian is generally used either to place the situation described in the sentence with reference to time (tense), to ascribe a temporal contour to it (aspect), or to assess its reality (modality). The tense categories in Mongolian distinguish the non-past and past tenses. We examine in depth the meanings and functions of the various tense morphemes. There is no salient inflectional morpheme for marking either the opposition of the perfective and imperfective aspects or the perfect in Mongolian, but there are several kinds of single form or compound structure for signaling the sub-classes of imperfective and perfect. Mood and modality in Mongolian can be expressed in different ways, our discussion is, however, restricted to modality expressed through verbal morphology only and some auxiliary verbs which express mood. Voice includes active, passive, and reciprocal voices. In this section, we present some detailed description of the meanings and functions of voice suffixes. In the discussion of the causative construction, we reveal some characteristic features of the causative in terms of the relationship between the causer and causee.Ph.D

Typology of Pluractional Constructions in the Languages of the World

The aim of this book is to give the first large-scale typological investigation of pluractionality in the languages of the world. Pluractionality is defined as the morphological modification of the verb to express a plurality of situations that can additionally involve a plurality of participants and/or spaces. Based on a 246-language sample, the main characteristics of pluractionality are described and discussed throughout the book. Firstly, a description of the functions that pluractional markers cross-linguistically express is presented and the relationships occurring among them are explained through the semantic map model. Then, the marking strategies that languages display to express such functions are illustrated and some issues concerning the formal identification are briefly discussed as well. The typological generalizations are corroborated showing how pluractional markers work in three specific languages (Akawaio, Beja, Maa). In conclusion, the theoretical conceptualization of pluractionality is discussed referring to the Radical Construction Grammar approach