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Balto-Slavic agricultural terminology
This paper provides an overview of the agricultural lexicon of Balto-Slavic and aims to include all words that can be reconstructed for the Baltic and Slavic proto-languages. In our analysis, we distinguish between the words that can be dated to Proto-Balto-Slavic and those that entered Baltic and/or Slavic independently at a later stage.
Pronk, T.C., Pronk-Tiethoff, S.
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“I AM SAVING THE REMAINS OF OUR PAST, WHICH FADE AND DISAPPEAR WITH EACH PASSING DAY, FROM COMPLETE DESTRUCTION”: VANDALIN SHUKEVICH’S MANUSCRIPTS AS A NOVEL SOURCE FOR THE STUDY OF LANGUAGE CONTACTS AT THE BALTO-SLAVIC BORDERLAND The paper is a pilot
Katarzyna Konczewska
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Settling institutional uncertainty: Policing Chicago and New York, 1877–1923
Abstract We show how both the Chicago Police Department and the New York Police Department sought to settle uncertainty about their propriety and purpose during a period when abrupt transformations destabilized urban order and called the police mandate into question. By comparing annual reports that the Chicago Police Department and the New York Police
Johann Koehler, Tony Cheng
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Evolution and Spread of Politeness Systems in Indo‐European
Abstract In this paper, we investigate the phenomenon of pronominal politeness in the Indo‐European languages and demonstrate that the processes of change of pronominal systems related to politeness follow two evolutionary regimes, one inside the ‘Standard Average European’ (SAE) linguistic area and another outside of it.
Michael Dunn, Kate Bellamy
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Деантропонимные топонимы белорусско-польского пограничья
Deantroponymic names in the Belarusian-Polish frontier The article analyzes deantroponymic toponyms of Grodno land, recorded in written materials of 15th – 17th centuries in comparison with current data. The origin, structure and evolution of the areal
Юлия [IUliia] Гурская [Hurskaia]
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Looking for freedom? Networks of international student mobility and countries’ levels of democracy
This article investigates the link between countries’ level of democracy and how this impacts on their ability to attract degree‐mobile students from abroad. Social Network Analysis (SNA) and Exponential Random Graph Modelling (ERGM) are used to show that for a sample of OECD and EHEA member countries, the ties of student mobility occur more often when
Eva Maria Vögtle, Michael Windzio
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Shortening, Lengthening, and Reconstruction: Notes on Historical Slavic Accentology
The paper is a part of an ongoing discussion on various topics of historical Slavic accentology with Frederik Kortlandt. The topics discussed in the paper are: the reflex of the Proto-Slavic short neo-acute in Kajkavian; the reflex of pretonic and ...
Mate Kapović
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Proto-Indo-European verb and Slavic etymology [PDF]
In Balto-Slavic, the large scope of stem variation within the verbal system inherited from Proto-Indo-European was reduced, on the paradigmatic level, to few apophonic verbs, reduplicated and nasal presents, but the former variety left traces in the ...
Loma Aleksandar
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The prehistory of kláusti, klausýti, and their related forms revisited
The Baltic verbs, Lith. kláusti ‘to ask questions’, klausýti ‘to listen’, Latv. klàust ‘to ask questions’ and klàusît / klaũsît ‘to listen’ exhibit intriguing morphological and accentological distributions. For a long time, this has interested linguists
Yoko Yamazaki
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Effects of laryngeal features on vowel duration: implications for Winter’s Law
Vowels are longer before voiced than voiceless obstruents in many languages. Work on how this effect interacts with aspiration has been limited. This study presents data from Hindi and Telugu on vowel duration and other acoustic characteristics as ...
Chelsea Sanker
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