The paper deals with the rigorous methods used in the research of concepts representing abstract notions like “friendship”, “love”, “hatred”, “conscience”, and “envy”. Concepts of that kind have no visible physical support in the material world except for the sound forms of the words representing them, thus causing additional difficulties in classification, research and analysis as well as stip...

The main aspects of linguistic study the language unit «address» in domestic and foreign linguistics are considered article. Different approaches to concept «address», structural functional features address, classification address based on status, situation participants communication, as well morphological semantic characteristics were considered. It was noted that when considering only an elem...

The growth in the use of speech corpora has benefited in the last 10 years from the establishment of data centres, such as the Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC), the European Language Resources Association (ELRA), the Japanese Language Resource Consortium (GSK: Gengo Shigen Kyouyuukikou), and multi-site annotation initiatives, such as the ToBI system for prosodic annotation and the DAMSL system ...

The fiscal difficulties of LDC’s, and the important role for evasion as a part of them, are well-known. Drawing on the rich literature on tax evasion in the public finance literature, much recent research has shed light on two phenomena contributing to this problem: Fiscal corruption and evasion through illegal transactions. This note surveys some of this recent research.

Information and telecommunication technologies (ICT) are often seen as useful tools for nation building. This perception of usefulness becomes more prominent when considering the needs of underprivileged nations. ICT implementation projects in developing countries provide the hope of being able to leapfrogging their technological and economic development. However, ICT for development projects o...

We examine trade in services between employers from developed countries (DCs) and workers from less developed countries (LDCs) on an online platform for contract labor. We report evidence that 1) DC employers are less likely to hire LDC compared to DC workers even after controlling for a wide range of observables, 2) workers with standardized and verified work history information are more likel...