1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910794809403321

Autore

Kehayov Petar

Titolo

The fate of mood and modality in language death : evidence from minor finnic / / Petar Kehayov

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, [Germany] ; ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : , : De Gruyter Mouton, , 2017

©2017

ISBN

3-11-052199-7

3-11-052408-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (406 pages) : illustrations, maps

Collana

Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs, , 1861-4302 ; ; Volume 307

Classificazione

ES 425

Disciplina

415.6

Soggetti

Modality (Linguistics)

Grammar, Comparative and general - Mood

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Table of contents -- Transliteration and transcription conventions -- Abbreviations of languages, dialects and names of settlements (in Russian and in the respective Finnic variety) -- Abbreviations of linguistic notions -- List of figures. List of maps. List of tables -- 1. Introduction -- 2 Language death: current state of the research -- 3. Mood and modality: definitions, semantic values and their organization -- 4. Mood and modality meets language death -- 5. The languages studied -- 6. Methods of inquiry -- 7. Intensity of the language contact and the degree of contraction outside MM-domain -- 8. MM in the receding varieties -- 9. Toward a uniform account of the phenomena observed in the domain of MM -- 10. Conclusions -- Appendices: examples of elicited linguistic data -- Appendix I. Q5: materials from Eastern Seto -- Appendix II. Non-controlled elicitation: materials from Central Lude -- References -- Language index: Finnic varieties -- Subject index

Sommario/riassunto

Research into the “grammar of language death” is often biased toward formal processes (e.g. paradigmatic levelling). In this study the author changes the perspective and shows that the relative susceptibility of linguistic elements to loss, change and innovation in language death



circumstances can be dependent on meaning and thus organized along semantic notions rather than along structure.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910220045203321

Autore

Justin R. Seymour

Titolo

Anthropogenic Impacts on the Microbial Ecology and Function of Aquatic Environments

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Frontiers Media SA, 2016

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (248 p.)

Collana

Frontiers Research Topics

Soggetti

Microbiology (non-medical)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

Aquatic ecosystems are currently experiencing unprecedented levels of impact from human activities including over-exploitation of resources, habitat destruction, pollution and the influence of climate change. The impacts of these activities on the microbial ecology of aquatic environments are only now beginning to be defined. One of the many implications of environmental degradation and climate change is the geographical expansion of disease- causing microbes such as those from the Vibrio genus. Elevating sea surface temperatures correlate with increasing Vibrio numbers and disease in marine animals (e.g. corals) and humans. Contamination of aquatic environments with heavy metals and other pollutants affects microbial ecology with downstream effects on biogeochemical cycles and nutrient turnover. Also of importance is the pollution of aquatic environments with antibiotics, resistance genes and the mobile genetic elements that house resistance genes from human and animal waste. Such contaminated environments act as a source of resistance genes long after an antibiotic has ceased being used in the community. Environments contaminated with mobile genetic elements that are adapted to human commensals and pathogens function to capture new resistance genes for potential



reintroduction back into clinical environments. This research topic encompasses these diverse topics and describes the affect(s) of human activity on the microbial ecology and function in aquatic environments and, describes methods of restoration and for modelling disturbances.