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Paul Doyon Napa Valley College, ESL, Adjunct The Japanese Nation: An Imagined Community Boundaries are mere artifacts that have little basis in reality. It is we ourselves who create them, and the entities they delineate are, therefore, figments of our own mind. — Eviatar Zerubavel, The Fine Line, p. 3 I don't know the future. I didn't come here to tell you how this is going to end. I came to tell you it's going to begin. I'm going to hang up this phone, and then I'm going to show these people what you don't want them to see. I'm going to show them a world without you, a world without rules and controls, without borders and boundaries, a world where anything is possible. Where...     Martin Haspelmath Bookmarked by Thomas Pellard The Generic Style Rules for Linguistics     John Mansfield Bookmarked by Thomas Pellard Intersecting formatives and inflectional predictability: How do speakers and learners predict the correct form of Murrinhpatha verbs? This article investigates the phenomenon of inflection by intersecting formatives, that is to say, where an exponence is encoded by a combination of independently distributed phonological increments. Formative independence is defined in terms of conditional entropy. The verb inflection system of Murrinhpatha, an Aboriginal language of northern Australia, is analysed as a particularly complex example of intersecting formatives, and in general we can say that inflectional exponence in this language is highly irregular or unpredictable. Recent information-theoretic approaches to morphology...     Magnus Pharao Hansen University of Copenhagen, Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies, University of Copenhagen, Post-Doc Life histories, language attitudes and linguistic variation: Navigating the micro- politics of language revitalization in an Otomí community in Mexico Chapter in Language Documentation and Revitalization in Latin American Contexts Ed. by Gabriela Pérez Báez, Chris Rogers, Jorge Emilio Rosés Labrada     Alexander King Franklin & Marshall College, Anthropology, Faculty Member Documenting Koryak: Endangered Languages and the Legacy of Arctic Colonialism This article is part of the series Arctic Abstractive Industry on the Cultural Anthropology website section "Fieldsites".     J. Keith Vincent Boston University, Modern Languages and Comparative Literature, Faculty Member Vincent Queer Reading and Modern Japanese Literature.pdf "The queerness of the Japanese canon is even more striking than the Pope's dress, even if it has not always been acknowledged in explicit terms."     Gurol Baba Ankara Sosyal Bilimler Üniversitesi, International Relations, Faculty Member Japan’s Agenda Setting on Human Security: Discourses and Practices as Positive-Sum Gain at the Regional Context This study aims to investigate the main discourses and practices on Japan’s approaches for agenda setting on human security. It argues that as a way of endorsing its positive and anti-militaristic image and reinforcing the basic trust mechanism created in the post-war years among East Asian countries, Japanese policy makers in the 1990s have elaborated a human security agenda centered on the country’s Official Development Assistance policy. Tokyo promoted this agenda as a new and comprehensive outlook for both itself and the rest of the region. This process then created a context, a...     Aya Kimura University of Hawaii at Manoa, Women's Studies, Faculty Member Radiation Brain Moms and Citizen Scientists: The Gender Politics of Food Contamination after Fukushima