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Belief and the beast: Religion and attitudes towards tigers in Central India
People and Nature, EarlyView.Abstract Human perceptions of wildlife are critical to shaping conservation outcomes, particularly in landscapes where people coexist with large carnivores. Religion, a deeply rooted sociocultural force, remains underexplored in the context of human–wildlife conflict.
Sathvika Krishnan +4 more
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A Syntactic Interpretation of the Applicative-Causative Syncretism
Quaderni di Linguistica e Studi Orientali, 2019 This paper deals with the applicative-causative syncretism, which is a pattern of morpheme polysemy attested in many different natural languages. We basically interpret the causative-applicative syncretism as based on a shared syntactic configuration ...
Ludovico Franco
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El-Fikr, 2021 The analysis entitled "Syncretism within the Ritual Cok Bakal and Its Relationship with Community Trust in Sungai Baung Village, Talang Ubi District, Pali Regency.
Krismiati Krismiati +2 more
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Unlocking the Ik instrumental case
Studies in African Linguistics, 2014 Ik, a Kuliak (Nilo-Saharan) language spoken by roughly 7000 people in northeastern Uganda, has up to now been described as having a case system with seven cases (König 2002, 2008).
Terrill Schrock
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Mismatches in free relatives – grafting nanosyntactic trees
Glossa, 2019 German free relative constructions allow for case requirement mismatches under two types of circumstances. The first is when the case required in the embedded clause is more complex (NOM < ACC < GEN < DAT) than the case required in the main ...
Fenna Bergsma
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Lability and the rigidification of word order: evidence from Early Middle English
Linguistics, 2023 This article analyzes quantitatively the effect of five linguistic features on the position of the object in Early Middle English. Four of them have long been explored in the literature: object type, object length, clause type and type of verbal cluster (
García García Luisa
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The Morphology of Case and Possession in Balkar: Evidence that Oblique Cases Contain Accusative
Languages, 2023 This paper uses facts about case allomorphy and possessive morphology in Balkar, a Turkic language spoken in southern Russia, to contribute to the examination of the internal structure of case.
Colin Davis
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On the Morphology of Toponyms: What Greek Inflectional Paradigms Can Teach us
Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 1, Page 77-96, March 2025.Abstract The research is a contribution to the investigation of the grammatical status of toponyms from the point of view of inflectional paradigmatic morphology. By examining data from Standard Modern Greek, as well as select data from its historical development, the analysis reveals that the inflectional morphology of toponyms shows significant ...
Michail I. Marinis
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An overview of the tendencies for the development of dative-locative syncretism in Slavic languages
Forum LingwistyczneThis paper is an overview of linguistic phenomena leading to the formation of dative-locative syncretism in various Slavic languages, mainly in Slovak, Czech, Ukrainian, Slovene, Serbian, and Croatian.
Janusz Szablewski
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Creatio Fantastica, 2018 The article A Fantastic Crucible: Genological and Cultural Syncretism in Ben Aaronovitch Urban Fantasy Series “Rivers of London” explores generic and cultural syncretism in the eponymous cycle.
Sylwia Borowska-Szerszun
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