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Abstract We use fieldwork data about cross‐clausal scrambling in Balkar (Turkic) to clarify the nature of movement and its constraints. Balkar has a variety of embedded nominalized clauses, with different subject cases and possibilities for movement.
Tatiana Bondarenko, Colin Davis
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Partitivity and case marking in Turkish and related languages
The paper discusses the conditions for case marking on partitive constructions in direct object position in Turkish and some related languages. We focus on Turkish and then turn to some details of corresponding constructions in some other Turkic ...
Jaklin Kornfilt, Klaus von Heusinger
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Zoonyms of Arab-Persian Origin in the Bashkir Language and Its Dialects
Introduction. The article attempts a first analysis of animal names of Arab-Persian origin in standard Bashkir and its dialects in their relation to other Turkic languages. Goals.
Ekba Zarema N.
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A comprehensive review of HVS‐I mitochondrial DNA variation of 19 Iranian populations
Abstract Iran is located along the Central Asian corridor, a natural artery that has served as a cross‐continental route since the first anatomically modern human populations migrated out of Africa. We compiled and reanalyzed the HVS‐I (hypervariable segment‐I) of 3840 mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) sequences from 19 Iranian populations and from 26 groups ...
Motahareh Amjadi +4 more
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Japanese aru, iru, oru 'to be' : [oru ist bin aru] [PDF]
Among the Japanese expressions for 'to be', the verbs aru (unmarked), iru (animate subject) and oru (humble variant of iru) are of special interest (cf. Martin 1975: 194f. for a descriptive account). We may look for cognates of these verbs in the (other)
Kortlandt, Frederik H. H.
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The spread of the Indo-Europeans [PDF]
The publication of Mallory’s book (1989) has rendered much of what I had to say in the present contribution superfluous. The author presents a carefully argued and very well written account of a balanced view on almost every aspect of the problem ...
Kortlandt, Frederik H. H.
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Peculiarities of Multilanguage Communication in Kosh-Agach District of the Republic of Altai
This article is about the language situation that has developed in Kosh-Agach district of the Republic of Altay, where Altaians, Kazakhs and Russians coexist.
Ludmila Alekseevna Araeva +1 more
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The Sino-Tibetan (ST) language family includes the Sinitic languages (what for political reasons are known as Chinese ‘dialects’) and the 200 to 300 Tibeto-Burman (TB) languages.
LaPolla, Randy J.
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The article is devoted to the issue of the relationship of the Mongolian and Turkic languages, which arouses interest of comparativists dealing with the Altaic hypothesis. This issue has long been disputed and still remains unresolved.
V. .. Rassadin, L. .. Bold
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