Origin and Spread of Dravidian Speakers

a contrastive pragmatic study of gratitude strategies of english and persian speakers

this study investigates the strategies native english and persian speakers employ for expressing gratitude in different situations. the strategies of persian efl learners are also compared with english strategies in order to find the differences that may exist between these two languages. social status and size of imposition of the favor are social variables which are investigated in detail for...

native speaker norms and teaching english to non_native speakers : the case of iranian efl learners

امروزه، این که زبان انگلیسی سریع ترین و گسترده ترین زبان مورد استفاده در سراسر جهان است به عنوان یک واقعیت پذیرفته شده است. استفاده مشترک از زبان انگلیسی به عنوان یک زبان بین المللی مستلزم هنجارها و مدل های یادگیری و تدریس زبان است. زبان شناسان توجه ویژه ای به مفهوم "زبان مادری" به عنوان تنها منبع درست و قابل اعتماد از داده های زبان می داده اند.با این حال، این اصطلاح به اندازه کافی روشن به نظر ...

Origin and Spread of Important Insect Pests of Animals

As FAR BACK as the days of Pliny in the first century, and probably long before, horses, cows, sheep, goats, dogs, and chickens were known to be infested with fleas, bots, and lice. Until the white man arrived in America not one of these animals had been present on this continent for a long time, with the possible exception of the dog. It is natural to assume therefore that all of the specific ...

Morphological Analysis of the Dravidian Language Family

The Dravidian family is one of the most widely spoken set of languages in the world, yet there are very few annotated resources available to NLP researchers. To remedy this, we create DravMorph, a corpus annotated formorphological segmentation and part-of-speech. Also, we exploit novel features and higher-order models to achieve promising results on these corpora on both tasks, beating techniqu...

Epidemic Influenza: Notes on Its Origin and Method of Spread