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Religious Syncretism in India’s Northeast: A Case of the Heraka

Journal of Asian and African Studies, 2022
This paper examines religious syncretism in India’s Northeast with reference to reformed Heraka. It is perceived, contact of different cultural practices enforces natives to reinterpret and redefined beliefs and practices in conformation to appropriated culture.
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The Old Persian genitive. A study of a syncretic case

2011
Old Persian does not have separate forms for genitive and dative, but formerly distinct grammatical categories merged into the genitive case. The aim of our paper is to analyse this change. To this effect, in the first part we investigate the syntactic functions and the semantic roles of the Old Persian genitive case. A careful analysis of textual data
BENVENUTO, Maria Carmela, POMPEO, Flavia
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Epistemological Syncretism in a Biology Classroom: A Case Study

Journal of Science Education and Technology, 2010
In teaching science, the beliefs of teachers may come into conflict and inhibit the implementation of reformed teaching practice. An experienced biology teacher, Mr. Hobbs, was found to have two different sets of epistemological beliefs while his classroom practice was predominantly teacher-centered.
William D. Bennett, Soonhye Park
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Motivating a Morphome: Albanian case syncretism as a case study

2023
Mediterranean Morphology Meetings, Vol 13 (2023): Comparing ...
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Paradigms and syncretism in derivation: the case of ethnics in French

Lingue e linguaggio, 2018
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Schalchli, Gauvain, Boyé, Gilles
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Case Syncretism

2012
AbstractCase syncretism refers to the combination of multiple distinct case values in a single form. Distinct case values are determined on a language-specific basis, so that case syncretism by this definition involves an observable asymmetry between paradigms within a language.
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Case syncretism in and out of Indo-European

2001
CLS37: The Panels.
Baerman, Matthew, Brown, DP, Corbett, Greville   +2 more
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Pattern and Process in Ritual Syncretism: The Case of Peyotism among the Navajo

Journal of Anthropological Research, 1975
A previously undescribed form of syncretic peyote ritual is summarized, which appears to represent a general paradigm for blending Peyotism and traditional Navajo religion. The thesis is advanced that the past and future process of ritual syncretism on the Navajo reservation is best comprehended by the structural character of the two religions.
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A cognitive semantic framework for syncretism: The case of the southern California powwow*

Ethnos, 1991
For many American Indian tribesmen who, in search of economic opportunities, have migrated to urban Southern California, participation in a special kind of dance celebrations, called powwows, has become a syncretistic expression of an ethnic identity defined along historic stereotypes of idealized Plains Indian traditions. Within the cognitive semantic
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Case Syncretism in Pennsylvania German: Internal or External Forces at Play?

American Journal of Germanic Linguistics and Literatures, 1996
Reduction of case morphology is not unusual in the history of languages, especially Germanic. What sets Pennsylvania German apart from an otherwise routine process is the fact that two distinct communities are reflecting two distinctly different developments in their case system—one group, the nonsectarians, is linguistically conservative; the other ...
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