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Local labour markets: The causes and consequences of spatial differences in labour market outcomes across cities in France and Germany. – LOCLABMARKET
This research project considers local labour markets in France and Germany, and examines the causes and consequences of differences in local labour market outcomes. Why do workers’ earnings, firm-worker productivity, and housing costs exhibit such enormous differences between, say, Paris or Mannheim
Phraseology in the novel – PHRASEOROM
The chief goal of the PhraseoRom project has been to elaborate a structural and functional typology of lexico-syntactic constructions specific to English, French and German novelistic discourse. Drawing on large trilingual corpora of literary language, we have used corpus-linguistic (or, more precis
Cartographic Sources and Territorial Transformations of Ethiopia since the Late 18th Century – ETHIOMAP
The history of Northeastern Africa is characterized by rich corpuses of political, religious and cultural materials, including centuries old written historiographies of the Christian kingdom of Ethiopia and neighboring Muslim sultanates and emirates, but also the oral historiographies of southern so
Conditional Responsiveness in France and Germany – CondResp
This project aims to identify the conditions of politicians's responsiveness by focusing on three main factors. The literature develops a number of hypotheses on this subject. First, the political calendar is essential: policies are more responsive closer to the elections. They are particularly reac
Segmentation of oral corpora – SegCor
Although a great variety of segmentation systems have been experienced since the beginning of research on talk-in-interaction, there are still lacks in a principle-based segmentation rooted in knowledge. Thereof arise problems in the usability and exploitation of spoken language and interaction corp
The role of morphemes during reading development – MORPHEME
This ANR DFG project brings together experts from cognitive psychology, education and computational modelling to investigate the development of reading skills using a mixed cross-sectional and longitudinal cohort design, with pre-school and primary school children, combined with a cross-linguistic a
MEntal Representation of ODors: from physical features to perceptual processing – MEROD
Around the turn of the century, the idea that modern, civilized human beings might do without olfaction became outdated: this hidden, inarticulate sense, hitherto considered superfluous to cognition, became a focus of study in its own right and thus the subject of new knowledge. It was acknowledged
Nietzsche’s Private Library on the Web: Digital Edition and Philosophical Commentary – BibNietzsche
The interest of an author’s library for the study of the genesis of works is obvious: entering the library of a writer, a philosopher, a historian, consulting the books and manuscripts of his workshop allows to grasp more easily the paths of creation. The importance of an author’s library for the hi
(New) Political Representative Claims: A Global View (France, Germany, Brazil, China, India) – CLAIM
This ambition of this project is to understand the transformations of political representation in the 21st century, with a particular interest in new representative claims, that is, claims to represent that are not based on election. Indeed, it seems necessary to address the research gap regarding g
Social Status in the Tibetan World – TIBSTAT
The programme of research presented in this application was formulated on the basis of the results of the ANR/DFG project "The Social History of Tibetan Societies, 17th-20th Centuries" (SHTS). The project began on 1 March 2012 and (with a one-year extension) will end on 29 February 2016. Prior to th