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Immigrants, Refugees, and Languages Spoken in Buffalo [PDF]

, 2018
Buffalo has a low proportion of foreign born residents compared to other cities. But an unusually high percentage of the region’s foreign-born are refugees.
Partnership for the Public Good
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Loanwords and Linguistic Phylogenetics: *pelek̑u‐ ‘axe’ and *(H)a(i̯)g̑‐ ‘goat’1

Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 1, Page 116-136, March 2025.
Abstract This paper assesses the role of borrowings in two different approaches to linguistic phylogenetics: Traditional qualitative analyses of lexemes, and quantitative computational analysis of cognacy. It problematises the assumption that loanwords can be excluded altogether from datasets of lexical cognacy.
Simon Poulsen
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The history of the study of Balkan Languages Union

Russian journal of linguistics: Vestnik RUDN, 2009
This article represents the historical analysis of the apportionment and typological description some modern literary languages of Balkan Peninsula: the Bulgarian, Romanian, Serbian, and Albanian languages in works of Russian and European linguists.
N V Novospasskaya
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PRECARIZED AGEING‐IN‐PERIFERIA: Low‐Income Older Adults in a Transforming Neighbourhood

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract In this article we investigate how intersecting forms of precarity shape the everyday practices of ageing‐in‐place developed by low‐income older adults in Via Milano, a historically segregated yet rapidly transforming neighbourhood in Brescia, northern Italy. We draw on qualitative and ethnographic research to examine how diverse urban changes—
Marco Alioni, Barbara Badiani
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THE SIBYLLS OF ALBANIAN ARCHBISHOP PETER BOGDANI IN “THE BAND OF PROPHETS” [PDF]

Езиков свят
This article examines the Sibylls, religious poems found in the work "Çeta e Profetëve" by Pjetër Bogdani, one of the most significant figures in Albanian literature.
Nexhmije Kastrati, Valdet Hysenaj
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“The Many Languages of the Avant-Garde”: In conversation with Grzegorz Bral of Teatr Pieśń Kozła (Song of the Goat Theatre) [PDF]

, 2014
How to theorise and review avant-garde Shakespeare? Which theoretical paradigms should be applied when Shakespearean productions are multicultural and yet come from a specific locale?
Sakowska, Aleksandra
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Student Self-Evaluation in Albanian Language

Journal of Educational and Social Research, 2013
The aim of the topic is to teach students how to asses their own progress . Self-evaluation is a potentially powerful technique because of its impact on student performance through enhanced self-efficacy and increased intrinsic motivation.To use other explicit criteria of evaluation.
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Does Inequality Blur Class Lines? Meritocratic Attitudes in Comparative Perspective

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Scholars of inequality generally find that lower‐class individuals are more skeptical of meritocratic narratives that link economic success to individual work effort. However, past research has yielded inconclusive findings about how economic inequality affects meritocratic attitudes across different class groups.
Roshan K. Pandian, Ronald Kwon
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Western Balkans as the Frontline of Russian Hybrid Warfare

Global Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Hybrid warfare (HW) scholarship acknowledges the phenomenon's contextual and temporal specificity, yet its dominant conceptual framing has generated a literature largely centred on identifying and categorising hybrid activities. This focus has left the contextual vulnerabilities that enable hybrid threats (HTs) and shape an adversary's ...
Vesna Bojicic‐Dzelilovic
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Morphological and Syntactic (non-)finiteness. A Comparison between English and Balkan Languages

Quaderni di Linguistica e Studi Orientali, 2019
In English, finiteness has an extremely limited realization in morphology and is almost exclusively defined in syntax. In particular, there are two main morphological forms, the stem and the stem followed by the -ed ending, which function as finite or as
M. Rita Manzini, Anna Roussou
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