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Settling institutional uncertainty: Policing Chicago and New York, 1877–1923
Criminology, Volume 61, Issue 3, Page 518-545, August 2023., 2023 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
Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 121, Issue 1, Page 152-167, March 2023., 2023 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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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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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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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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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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О йотации в праславянском и балтийских языках
Baltistica, 2011 ON THE ΥΟΤΑTIΟΝ IN SLAVIC AND BALTICSummaryThe author shows that from the typological point of view the so—called "Balto —Slave palatalization" CV> СʹV is impossible and there are no reasons to treat the evolution of the clusters C in these ...
Валерий Николаевич Чекман
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All's well that ends well [PDF]
, 2010 A few years ago, Jasanoff adopted the central tenet of my accentological theory, viz. that the Balto-Slavic acute was a stød or glottal stop, not a rising tone (cf. Kortlandt 1975, 1977, 2004, Jasanoff 2004a).
Kortlandt, Frederik H. H.
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Zur Rekonstruktion der balto-slavischen Intonationen
Baltistica, 2011 THE RECONSTRUCTION OF THE BALTO-SLAVIC INTONATIONS SummaryAccording to the classical doctrine, the Balto-Slavic intonations – the acute (a rising intonation) and the circumflex (a falling intonation) – were changed in Lithuanian, whereas they were ...
Olegas Poliakovas
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Looking for freedom? Networks of international student mobility and countries’ levels of democracy
The Geographical Journal, Volume 186, Issue 1, Page 103-115, March 2020., 2020 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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