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Identification of names of plant curatives and substances in folk and fiction texts shows close interactions between man and the world, attitudes of people towards nature. Research in phytonyms and medicinal plant names proper is most essential for the
Anita Sh. Ishmukhametova
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Substratum Influence on (Rig-Vedic) Sanskrit? [PDF]
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Hock, Hans Henrich
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The Current State of Linguistic Research on the Relatedness of the Language Families of East and Southeast Asia [PDF]
The current state of knowledge on the relatedness of the major language families of East and Southeast Asia is summarized following a major conference on this topic in Hawai‘i in 1993.
Reid, Lawrence A.
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The origin of the Japanese and Korean accent systems [PDF]
S.R. Ramsey writes (1979: 162): "The patterning of tone marks in Old Kyoto texts divides the vocabulary into virtually the same classes as those arrived at by comparing the accent distinctions found in the modern dialects.
Kortlandt, Frederik H. H.
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Jmenná deklinace v altajských jazycích
In the article the nominal declension in five branches of Altaic languages is summarized, reconstructed in daughter protolanguages and these case protosystems are compared to obtain the hypothetical Altaic case protosystem.
Václav Blažek, Michal Schwarz
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On the Proto-Turkic */d₂/ and Mongolic *uda- ‘to be late’
The present study focuses on the Proto-Turkic phoneme */d₂/ in intervocalic position, which can be reconstructed only through external data from Mongolic and other Altaic languages. For this phoneme, four examples are presented. These are *kad₂a ‘rock’,
Orçun Ünal
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The Cognitive Neurology of Bilingualism in the Age of Globalization
Behavioural Neurology, Volume 2014, Issue 1, 2014.
Jubin Abutalebi, Brendan S. Weekes
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Bounded fitness landscapes and the evolution of the linguistic diversity
A simple spatial computer simulation model was recently introduced to study the evolution of the linguistic diversity. The model considers processes of selective geographic colonization, linguistic anomalous diffusion and mutation.
Abrams +21 more
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Ultraconserved words point to deep language ancestry across Eurasia [PDF]
The search for ever deeper relationships among the World’s languages is bedeviled by the fact that most words evolve too rapidly to preserve evidence of their ancestry beyond 5,000 to 9,000 y. On the other hand, quantitative modeling indicates that some “
A. Meade +11 more
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This article consists of free parts. In the first one is a bibliographical survey of the most important literature that appeared in the fields of study of individual five Altaic language groups (Japanese, Korean, Manchu-Tungusic, Mongolic, and Turkic) as
Alexander Vovin
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