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The Role of Contact in Explaining Linguistic Convergence1
Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 3, Page 479-513, November 2025.Abstract In this paper, I explore the question of how linguistic convergence emerges and what the role of contact might be. My case study is the spread of headed relative clauses built around wh‐relative markers in the Standard Average European languages.
Nikolas Gisborne
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Postcolonial transitions on the southern borders of the former Soviet Union: the return of Eurasianism? [PDF]
, 2003 As the Soviet Union dissolved into a new territorial reality, it released the doubly repressed histories of Tsarist and Soviet imperium. In the states to the south of the new Russian Federation, the post-soviet jostled with the postcolonial as nations ...
Bowring, Bill
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The Origins of Ashkenaz, Ashkenazic Jews, and Yiddish [PDF]
, 2017 Recently, the geographical origins of Ashkenazic Jews (AJs) and their native language Yiddish were investigated by applying the Geographic Population Structure (GPS) to a cohort of exclusively Yiddish-speaking and multilingual AJs. GPS localized most AJs
Das, R. +3 more
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Journal of Quaternary Science, Volume 40, Issue 7, Page 1285-1304, October 2025.ABSTRACT This study investigates long‐term impacts of empires on local socio‐ecosystems in western Anatolia (modern western Türkiye) over the past four millennia. We focus on Buldan Yayla Lake, located in a small mountain basin north of the Büyük Menderes (Great Meander) River valley.
Sabina Fiołna +7 more
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Were the first Bantu speakers south of the rainforest farmers? A first assessment of the linguistic evidence [PDF]
, 2017 Popular belief has it that the Bantu Expansion was a farming/language dispersal. However, there is neither conclusive archaeological nor linguistic evidence to substantiate this hypothesis, especially not for the initial spread in West-Central Africa. In
Adjanohoun +57 more
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Eagles and Grey Wolves: A cross‐cultural analysis of populist adjacent far‐right groups
Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy, Volume 25, Issue 2, August 2025.This article examines the narrative strategies and identity constructions of two far‐right groups, the League of the South (United States) and the Grey Wolves (Turkey), through a cross‐cultural lens. Gathering textual data from the respective groups' websites and using reflexive thematic analysis, we identify and compare five overarching themes ...
Daniel Barnett +2 more
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Turkic-Mongolian Names of Wild Predatory and Fur-bearing Animals in the Mongolian Languages
Oriental Studies, 2018 The article reviews a group of terms for wild prey and fur-bearing animal nominalization with the aim to identify their Turkic roots. The investigation is based on the materials of the Khalkha-Mongolian, Buryat, Kalmyk and Old Mongolian languages.
V. Rassadin, S. Trofimova
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Development of the State Correspondence Language of the Crimean Khanate [PDF]
Золотоордынское обозрение, 2016 Objectvie and materials of the research: In the article the matter for consideration is the problem of the lingual basis in yarlyks of the Crimean Khanate.
R.R. Abduzhemilev
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More Than a Game: Football and Ethnic Contestation in Contemporary Iran
Digest of Middle East Studies, Volume 34, Issue 4, Fall 2025.ABSTRACT This study examines a particular form of ethnic resentment, namely the use of sport as a medium for expressing repressed ethnic feelings. It focuses on how a sports club, going beyond mere entertainment and athletics, becomes a center for disseminating ethnic sentiments. Specifically, it explores the role of Tractor, a football club founded in
Ehsan Kashfi
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