1. The Syntactical Interpretation of Mycenaean Tablets
2. The Left Periphery of the Mycenaean cl... more 1. The Syntactical Interpretation of Mycenaean Tablets
2. The Left Periphery of the Mycenaean clause
The lecture addresses the question of whether and how language arose in the course of human evolu... more The lecture addresses the question of whether and how language arose in the course of human evolution.
His target audience was students in their last year of high school.
Encyclopedia of Greek Language and Linguistics , 2024
It is uncontested that Indo-European immigrants encountered autochthonous languages upon their ar... more It is uncontested that Indo-European immigrants encountered autochthonous languages upon their arrival in Greece as well as later in the Aegean world. The influence of pre-Greek languages on Greek manifests itself primarily in the vocabulary. It is mainly cultural terms that are borrowed, while there are no borrowed functional words. There is thus a scenario of ‘cultural borrowing’ between early Greek and the pre-Greek languages.
Kaum ein Begriff ist so diskreditiert wie der der Macht. Sie wird mit Missbrauch, Willkur und Irr... more Kaum ein Begriff ist so diskreditiert wie der der Macht. Sie wird mit Missbrauch, Willkur und Irrationalitat verbunden, allein das Streben danach gilt als verdachtig. Dabei ist die regulierende und gestaltende Funktion der Macht fur und in Organisationen aus dem Blick geraten, aber auch die Frage nach den Ursprungen und den Regulativen von Macht. Das Buch untersucht diese Thematik aus der Perspektive von Wissenschaftlern verschiedener Disziplinen und von "Praktikern der Macht" aus Unternehmen und Politik.
Page 1. Ivo Hajnal Die Tafeln aus Theben und ihre Bedeutung für die griechische Dialektologie ¶ 1... more Page 1. Ivo Hajnal Die Tafeln aus Theben und ihre Bedeutung für die griechische Dialektologie ¶ 1: Einleitung Nach längerer Wartezeit liegen die Neufunde von Theben in publizierter Form vor1. Hatten erste Informationen über den Fund und die Texte an-...
What relationships existed in prehistoric times between the southeastern part of the Balkan Penin... more What relationships existed in prehistoric times between the southeastern part of the Balkan Peninsula and northwest Asia Minor? This question is the focus of this interdisciplinary contribution. The answer is important in two ways: on the one hand, we could obtain more precise evidence of when and how speakers of Indo-European idioms came to Asia Minor; on the other hand we could shed more light on the prehistory of the Troas. Current findings from archeology, archaeogenetics and linguistics lead to the following conclusions: close cultural contacts existed between Eastern Thrace or the southeastern Balkans and northwestern Anatolia in the Late Neolithic (c. 6000 BCE) and in the Chalcolithic/Eneolithic period (c. 5800-4000 BCE). However, no Indo-European groups appear to have been involved in these contacts. They therefore must have reached Anatolia via the Caucasus. An immigration of speakers of Indo-European idioms via the Balkans did not take place until the Late Bronze Age, when the Phrygians reached Asia Minor. Incidentally, these become manifest in the epigraphic documents earlier than previously assumed.
In this work we explore a deep learning-based dialogue system that generates sarcastic and humoro... more In this work we explore a deep learning-based dialogue system that generates sarcastic and humorous responses from a conversation design perspective. We trained a seq2seq model on a carefully curated dataset of 3000 question-answering pairs, the core of our mean, grumpy, sarcastic chatbot. We show that end-to-end systems learn patterns very quickly from small datasets and thus, are able to transfer simple linguistic structures representing abstract concepts to unseen settings. We also deploy our LSTM-based encoder-decoder model in the browser, where users can directly interact with the chatbot. Human raters evaluated linguistic quality, creativity and human-like traits, revealing the system's strengths, limitations and potential for future research.
1. The Syntactical Interpretation of Mycenaean Tablets
2. The Left Periphery of the Mycenaean cl... more 1. The Syntactical Interpretation of Mycenaean Tablets
2. The Left Periphery of the Mycenaean clause
The lecture addresses the question of whether and how language arose in the course of human evolu... more The lecture addresses the question of whether and how language arose in the course of human evolution.
His target audience was students in their last year of high school.
Encyclopedia of Greek Language and Linguistics , 2024
It is uncontested that Indo-European immigrants encountered autochthonous languages upon their ar... more It is uncontested that Indo-European immigrants encountered autochthonous languages upon their arrival in Greece as well as later in the Aegean world. The influence of pre-Greek languages on Greek manifests itself primarily in the vocabulary. It is mainly cultural terms that are borrowed, while there are no borrowed functional words. There is thus a scenario of ‘cultural borrowing’ between early Greek and the pre-Greek languages.
Kaum ein Begriff ist so diskreditiert wie der der Macht. Sie wird mit Missbrauch, Willkur und Irr... more Kaum ein Begriff ist so diskreditiert wie der der Macht. Sie wird mit Missbrauch, Willkur und Irrationalitat verbunden, allein das Streben danach gilt als verdachtig. Dabei ist die regulierende und gestaltende Funktion der Macht fur und in Organisationen aus dem Blick geraten, aber auch die Frage nach den Ursprungen und den Regulativen von Macht. Das Buch untersucht diese Thematik aus der Perspektive von Wissenschaftlern verschiedener Disziplinen und von "Praktikern der Macht" aus Unternehmen und Politik.
Page 1. Ivo Hajnal Die Tafeln aus Theben und ihre Bedeutung für die griechische Dialektologie ¶ 1... more Page 1. Ivo Hajnal Die Tafeln aus Theben und ihre Bedeutung für die griechische Dialektologie ¶ 1: Einleitung Nach längerer Wartezeit liegen die Neufunde von Theben in publizierter Form vor1. Hatten erste Informationen über den Fund und die Texte an-...
What relationships existed in prehistoric times between the southeastern part of the Balkan Penin... more What relationships existed in prehistoric times between the southeastern part of the Balkan Peninsula and northwest Asia Minor? This question is the focus of this interdisciplinary contribution. The answer is important in two ways: on the one hand, we could obtain more precise evidence of when and how speakers of Indo-European idioms came to Asia Minor; on the other hand we could shed more light on the prehistory of the Troas. Current findings from archeology, archaeogenetics and linguistics lead to the following conclusions: close cultural contacts existed between Eastern Thrace or the southeastern Balkans and northwestern Anatolia in the Late Neolithic (c. 6000 BCE) and in the Chalcolithic/Eneolithic period (c. 5800-4000 BCE). However, no Indo-European groups appear to have been involved in these contacts. They therefore must have reached Anatolia via the Caucasus. An immigration of speakers of Indo-European idioms via the Balkans did not take place until the Late Bronze Age, when the Phrygians reached Asia Minor. Incidentally, these become manifest in the epigraphic documents earlier than previously assumed.
In this work we explore a deep learning-based dialogue system that generates sarcastic and humoro... more In this work we explore a deep learning-based dialogue system that generates sarcastic and humorous responses from a conversation design perspective. We trained a seq2seq model on a carefully curated dataset of 3000 question-answering pairs, the core of our mean, grumpy, sarcastic chatbot. We show that end-to-end systems learn patterns very quickly from small datasets and thus, are able to transfer simple linguistic structures representing abstract concepts to unseen settings. We also deploy our LSTM-based encoder-decoder model in the browser, where users can directly interact with the chatbot. Human raters evaluated linguistic quality, creativity and human-like traits, revealing the system's strengths, limitations and potential for future research.
ZusammenfassungThe method of comparative reconstruction is considered as the best instrument to r... more ZusammenfassungThe method of comparative reconstruction is considered as the best instrument to reveal the prehistory of individual languages or linguistic families. It is inductive (data-driven) and seems to be much more reliable as the concurring method of internal reconstruction. Still it has been overlooked that each comparative reconstruction - to be innovative - has to be based on an initial premise. Such a premise is always the result of an abductive conclusion as used in internal reconstruction. Thus each comparative reconstruction has a core consisting of internal reconstruction. For syntactical reconstruction the following premise seems to be suitable: Linguistic structures and their changes obey the principles of universal grammar (e. g. the Minimalistic Program) and of grammaticalization. This premise proves fruitful for the explanation of the Early Greek augment */e-/< *h
The heading "Coming of the Greeks" has been the focus of numerous scholarly discussions since J.B... more The heading "Coming of the Greeks" has been the focus of numerous scholarly discussions since J.B. Haley and C.W. Blegen-building on 19 th-century studies (cf. Kretschmer 1896, 401-409)-published their papers on supposedly non-Greek place names nearly 100 years ago (Haley 1928, Blegen 1928). From a linguistic perspective, "Coming of the Greeks" refers to the question under what circumstances the Greek language separated from the Indo-European family and later reached Greek soil. For Haley 1928 and Blegen 1928, place names of Anatolian origin on the Greek mainland and in the Aegean Sea were evidence of a homogeneous pre-Greek cultural layer. This layer, according to Blegen, was overlaid in the Early Helladic period at the beginning of the 2nd millennium BC by "the earliest form of Hellenic culture" (Blegen 1928, 154).
Hajnal&Risch, Grammatik des mykenischen Griechisch, Vol. 1, 2006
At his death in 1988, the Zurich Indo-Europeanist Ernst Risch left behind preliminary work on a g... more At his death in 1988, the Zurich Indo-Europeanist Ernst Risch left behind preliminary work on a grammar of Mycenaean Greek. This preliminary work included a general introduction and parts of the phonology. Within the framework of an Athena project of the Swiss National Science Foundation, Ivo Hajnal secured, updated and supplemented Ernst Risch's original manuscripts from 1996-1998. It is planned to finalise the manuscript taking into account the latest findings.
Theme: Interpreting the archaeological record: artefacts, humans and landscapes The political geo... more Theme: Interpreting the archaeological record: artefacts, humans and landscapes The political geography of western Anatolia in the LBA, and the region's interaction with its neighbours, in particular the Balkan Whilst we know of numerous Late Bronze Age (c. 1700-1200 BC) sites, including a number of very sizable ones, in western Anatolia, remarkably little archaeological fieldwork has focused on uncovering these settlements and establishing their role visa -vis their surroundings. Contemporary texts similarly indicate that the region was of a major political and military importance, and that individual states and federations may have ultimately challenged Hittite hegemony over Anatolia. Yet most text books largely ignore the region's importance, and consider it as a conflict zone between the two great powers to its west (Mycenaean Greece) and east (Hatti). This session invites presentations that aim to redress this situation. We are particularly interested in papers where evidence from various relevant disciplines, including archaeology, philology, linguistics, and geology/geo-archaeology are combined and compared. The session aims to contextualize the role of western Anatolia during the LBA and the interactions with its neighbours (including Greece, central Anatolia, the Levant, Egypt, Cyprus, and the Balkan), by inviting papers discussing fieldwork results as well as new interpretations of available archaeological and philological evidence. The session aims to present western Anatolia not simply as buffer zone between other regions and states, but as a region with its own socio-political and cultural developments, that was fully integrated in the LBA world. Proposals for papers may be submitted here: https://submissions.e-a-a.org/eaa2019/
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