The Mercator European Research Centre on Multilingualism and Language Learning (formerly Mercator Education) is part of a network of three research and documentation centres specializing in regional and minority languages within the European Union. The Mercator Network (named after Gerardus Mercator) was founded in 1987, as a direct result of the Kuijpers Resolution on the protection of the languages and cultures of regional minorities within the European Union. This resolution pointed out that EC Member State Governments and the European Commission should take positive action to recognize regional and minority languages.

 

SCIndeks je srpski nacionalni citatni indeks, razvijen da služi kao dopuna međunarodnim (Thompson-ISI) citatnim indeksima. Referiše domaće časopise kategorizovane kao periodične publikacije naučnog karaktera. Svi časopisi indeksiraju se sistematski "od korica do korica". Pored osnovnih opisa članaka, baza sadrži sažetke radova i sve citirane reference (metapodaci). Članci objavljeni u časopisima koji su postigli određeni nivo kvaliteta i prihvatili otvoreni pristup kao režim publikovanja dodatno su predstavljeni u vidu punog teksta. Časopisi referisani u SCIndeksu podvrgavaju se stalnom vrednovanju (monitoringu) s obzirom na uticajnost (impakt) u samoj bazi i, dopunski, u međunarodnim (Thompson-ISI) citatnim indeksima. Istovremeno se prate pokazatelji tzv. bibliometrijskog kvaliteta časopisa, uglavnom izvedeni iz zahteva za njihovo uključivanje u Thompson-ISI citatne indekse. Časopisi odabrani na taj način preporučuju se za referisanje izdavačima međunarodnih citatnih baza podataka, a Ministarstvu za nauku i tehnološki razvoj Srbije za dopunsku podršku.

 

 

 

 

This paper reviews several cases where either the grammar strives to maintain the same output shape for pairs of inflected words that the regular phonology should otherwise drive apart (paradigmatic uniformity) or where the grammar strives to keep apart pairs of inflected words that the regular phonology threatens to merge (paradigmatic contrast).

 

 

 

For centuries, linguists have been examining how languages are put together. This investigation is possible because human languages are overwhelmingly orderly and law-governed. But the investigation is also exciting, because of a remarkable fact emerging from recent work: though languages differ in many ways, they are all cast from a common mold -- a "master plan" rooted in human biology. Linguists interested in this discovery try to determine exactly what this master plan is, and how it is reflected in the individual languages of the world. This work is important for many reasons. One reason is purely intellectual. By discovering the nature of human language, we arrive at a better understanding of ourselves. But another reason, less appreciated by most linguists, is social and political. Accurate understanding of human language is important when society is faced with decisions that have a linguistic basis - for example: how we should teach reading to young children.

 

 

 

 

• Case morphology: Russian nouns, adjectives, numerals and demonstratives bear case

suffixes. The shape of a given case suffix is determined by two factors:

1. its morphological environment (properties of the stem to which the suffix attaches; e.g. declension class, gender, animacy, number); and

2. its syntactic environment.

The traditional cross-classification of case suffixes by declension-class and by casename (nominative, genitive, etc.) reflects these two factors.

 

 

 

The report describes the digital library of electronic theses and dis-sertations (ETDs) supported by the Russian Fundation for BasicResearch and developed by RSL. The digital library of ETDs con-tains: (1) the OPAC functioning now in the RSL, (2) tables of con-tents, (3) full text database of theses and dissertations, (4)bibliographic citations, (5) authority data representing names ofauthors (personal names). This digital library should be one of dig-ital collections in the RSL Digital Library named OREL (Open Rus-sian Electronic Library).The main result is that the Library begins to take dissertations andtheses in electronic form from authors graduated by home aca-demic (dissertation) councils and who wish to give their works forthe digital library of RSL. The Library makes an agreement witheach author by which an open access to dissertation and/or thesistext is provided through the RSL Web-site in Internet or Libraryintranet.Thus the Dissertations Digital Library (DDL) was opened in June,2002 and received an official status.

<...> Научная новизна работы заключается в системном описании факторов, влияющих на употребление кавычек в наименованиях (тип названия и его семантика, наличие или отсутствие при названии родового слова, наличие или отсутствие в названии аббревиации). В работе впервые рассматривается зависимость употребления кавычек от таких факторов, как графическая система, выбранная для оформления названия (кириллица или латиница), и тип контекста, в котором употребляется наименование.

 

 

 

<…> Научная новизна работы определяется тем, что в научный обиход вводится целый ряд новых сведений о произношении сложных и сложносокращенных слов; полученные в ходе исследования данные позволяют поставить и частично решить важные для русистики вопросы: о связи просодического и сегментного уровней звукового яруса языка; об иерархии различных языковых и социолингвистических факторов, способных определять произношение композитов; о степени влияния грамматики на фонетику и др.

 

 

 

<…> Научная новизна и теоретическая значимость работы заключаются в следующем: выявлены и проанализированы причины орфографической нестабильности иноязычных неологизмов; связь между различными свойствами иноязычного слова и его написанием исследована на современном лексическом материале; при этом в фокусе внимания находились не вопросы внешней унификации написаний, а обоснованность последних языковыми факторами; использован новый способ изучения письменной практики – с помощью современных интернет-данных; предложен иной, по сравнению с общепринятым, способ орфографической кодификации слов с неустоявшимся написанием.