Although most scholars assign them to the Afro-Asiatic language phylum, this classification is subject to ongoing debate: because their speakers were for many years very little known and reside in regions that are dominated by Cushitic languages, the Omotic languages were once classified as the (now discarded) West Cushitic subgroup of the Cushitic superfamily rather than as a separate entity.
Such professorships would be assigned to highly qualified scholars and expire automatically when the holder leaves his position.
Priority is often assigned to Leibniz, but scholars have now traced the idea back to Duns Scotus and William of Ockham (Knuuttila 1993).
Like most Shakespeare scholars, I am delighted to attribute to someone else the dreary 578-line "Funeral Elegy" that Prof. Donald Foster's computer program had mistakenly assigned to Shakespeare ("A Scholar Recants on His 'Shakespeare' Discovery," Arts pages, June 20).
Most of all, young boys piss, so much so that scholars assigned a Latin term, puer mingens, to their ubiquitous appearances.
The 66 relevant papers identified through the Google Scholar search and subsequent analysis were assigned to one or more categories as tabulated in Table 1.
He gathered 54 of the most prodigious linguists and scholars in England, divided them into six groups, assigned to each a different set of texts and appointed a team of overseers.
The Norton editors were so worried that Heaney would fall into the latter camp that they assigned to him an Anglo-Saxon scholar "who was a kind of minder".
The earliest and finest statuettes of which there is knowledge are assigned to the Okvik culture, which some scholars date to the pre-Christian era, but which others assign to its early centuries.
By Ian Crouch September 27, 2010 In June, I posted about a report published by the National Association of Scholars that was sharply critical of the summer reading assigned to incoming freshman by American colleges.
