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GEN.SG = NOM.PL: A mystery solved?
Linguistica Brunensia, 2016 This paper proposes an explanation for the identity of form between GEN.SG and NOM.PL. The paper first shows that the homonymy is attested in Czech as well as a number of other languages.
Pavel Caha
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Framing Peninsular Crypto‐Jews as Part of the Sephardic Diaspora
Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.ABSTRACT When we talk about the Sephardic diaspora, we often talk about Iberian conversos who leave the Peninsula, supposedly to live openly as Jews in places like Algiers, Venice, Amsterdam or the Ottoman Empire. But what about those conversos who continued to identify in some way as Jews but who remained in Spain and Portugal?
David A. Wacks
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Iberian Scepticism in Istanbul: The Hebrew Philosophical Dialogue Attributed to Don Joseph Nasi
Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.ABSTRACT On 28 April 1577, the printer Joseph Ya’abetz in Constantinople printed a rare Hebrew pamphlet titled Ben Porat Yosef (Joseph, the Offspring of a Fertile Tree). Its author, Isaac ben Samuel Onkeneira, claims to report a philosophical debate between Don Joseph Nasi (1524–1579), the powerful Portuguese‐born agent at the Ottoman court, and a ...
Carsten L. Wilke
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Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Despite enduring decades of advocacy, Alevi communities in Türkiye find themselves in a constant state of anticipation for acknowledgment from the Turkish state. Previous studies have long documented the marginalized status of Alevis within Turkish society and their ongoing struggle for recognition; however, they have overwhelmingly framed the
Aslı Gücin
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Chinese Religious Syncretism in Macau [PDF]
, 2017 In this paper I address the phenomenon of syncretism with respect to Chinese religions. An analysis of the syncretism that takes place between the three major Chinese religious traditions is first done in its personal and social ...
Eh, Edmond
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Which MATter matters in PATtern borrowing? The direction of case syncretisms
Morphology, 2020 This study addresses the question of which case-marker (i.e. MATter) is privileged in case realignment (i.e. PATtern borrowing) by examining two mixed varieties in northern Australia, which have borrowed either a locative or allative case marker, but not both, from a traditional Australian language.
Felicity Meakins +2 more
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Insider/Outsider/Transsiders of Transnational Migration
Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Migration is individually and collectively a challenging but also a transformative praxis and process. In my proposal, I present these in the context of transnational migration of two multigenerational families whose pioneers originally migrated from Turkey to Germany.
Halil Can
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Religious Syncretism in Contemporary Brazilian Theatre [PDF]
, 1980 Religious Syncretism in Contemporary Brazilian ...
Brownell-Levine, Virginia A.
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Burying Futures: Artisanal Mining Deaths and the Politics of Negligence in Zimbabwe
American Anthropologist, Volume 128, Issue 4, Page 719-729, December 2026.ABSTRACT In the gold‐mining town of Kwekwe, central Zimbabwe, injury and death are a constant presence. Collapsing shafts, sudden explosions, gang fights, and neglected health infrastructure characterize the everyday lives of the town's impoverished residents.
Melusi Nkomo
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The case system of the Vilamovicean adjective – from description to explanation
Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics, 2013 The present paper offers a detailed description and analysis of the adjectival declensional patterns in the Modern Vilamovicean language. Modern Vilamovicean possesses six declensional patterns, restricted to distinct environments, that, from a ...
Andrason, Alexander
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