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Tracing the prodigal son's voyage
Linguistica Brunensia, 2020 The author completes Blažek's extensive etymological analysis of the Indo-European word for 'son'. The article focuses on the behavior of the word from the accentological and paradigmatic point of view in Balto-Slavic and separate Slavic languages.
Roman Sukač
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Person matters in impersonality
Syntax, Volume 25, Issue 2, Page 147-187, June 2022., 2022 Abstract The Basque impersonal is a detransitivized construction where the internal argument is the only overt argument and the external argument, although semantically present, does not have any morphological reflex. This article argues that, despite its intransitive shape, the impersonal involves a particular kind of Voice projection that we term ...
Ane Berro, Ane Odria, Beatriz Fernández
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Балтословенска акцентологија (IWоBA VIII) [PDF]
Filolog, 2016 Prikaz zbornika: IWоBA VIII (International Workshop on Balto-Slavic Accentology) – Реферати VIII међународног скупа о балтословенској акцентологији (Нови Сад, 6–8 јул 2012), Славистички зборник (2014), Радмило Маројевић (ур.), Нови Сад: Библиотека Матице
Natasa A. Spasić
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Connective negation and negative concord in Balto-Slavic
Vilnius University Open Series, 2021 With negative indefinite pronouns the Balto-Slavic languages all exhibit strict negative concord. In this study we investigate how negative concord functions in a context in which a connective negator (‘neither ...
Johan van der Auwera +2 more
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Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 120, Issue 1, Page 103-127, March 2022., 2022 Abstract It has long been noticed that the Slavic superlative prefix nai‐/naj‐ comprises two components: *na + *i. The former can be identified with the preposition Sl na ‘on(to)’ which developed an intensifying meaning when used as a prefix. The origin of the second component, on the other hand, has not been determined satisfactorily so far.
Florian Wandl
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Južnoslovenski Filolog, 2005 Lith. lokšniis "tender, etc" is traced back, by way of dissimilation, to *losk-snii-, derived with the adjectival suffix -snii-, productive in Baltic, from the I.-E. stem of Slavic laska, Lat. lasc-tvus, etc.
Hamp Eric P.
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Are There Cross‐Cultural Legal Principles? Modal Reasoning Uncovers Procedural Constraints on Law
Cognitive Science, Volume 45, Issue 8, August 2021., 2021 Abstract Despite pervasive variation in the content of laws, legal theorists and anthropologists have argued that laws share certain abstract features and even speculated that law may be a human universal. In the present report, we evaluate this thesis through an experiment administered in 11 different countries.
Ivar R. Hannikainen +15 more
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New Look on the Toponyms Valdai and Gora-Valdai
Вопросы ономастики, 2023 The article criticizes the traditional and widespread view on the etymology of the toponyms Valdai in the Novgorod region and Mount Valdai (Finnish Harjavalta) on the coast of the Gulf of Finland, west of St. Petersburg.
Valery L. Vasilyev
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The ā-stem genitive singular in Old Prussian
Vilnius University Open Series, 2022 Root stress in the Old Prussian ā-stem gen. sg. ālg-as was taken from the homonymous o-stem gen. sg. deiw-as (Lith. lángo, Sl. *vȏrna). This analogy took place after the reshuffling of the Balto-Slavic o-stem gen. sg.
Miguel Villanueva Svensson
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PIE *peh2ur ’fire’. Two Slavic etymologies
Slovenski Jezik - Slovene Linguistic Studies, 2023 This study investigates two traditional Proto-Slavic etyma. (1.a) PS *netopyŕĭ, *netŭpyŕĭ ‘bat’. The former has widespread descendants in East and West Slavic and Western South Slavic; the latter, attested in Middle Russian, has no known modern reflexes.
Henning Andersen
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