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Abstract Since 1989, Russia’s “first business newspaper,” Kommersant, worked to cultivate a new kind of collective post‐socialist subject, a “vanguard group” of “New Russians.” How did Kommersant imagine this subject? Who were its antagonists and why, and how would the New Russian triumph over them?
Pavel Khazanov
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In search of isoglosses: continuous and discrete language embeddings in Slavic historical phonology [PDF]
This paper investigates the ability of neural network architectures to effectively learn diachronic phonological generalizations in a multilingual setting.
Cathcart, Chundra A., Wandl, Florian
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“A hitherto unheard‐of and harmful thing”: Breastfeeding and Violence in Russian Literature
Abstract This article examines the construction of maternal subjectivity in the context of breastfeeding narratives in Russian literature, from the early 1800s to the 1920s. It draws on historical and contemporary socio‐economic contexts, in Russia and the West, to support its major contention that, in literature, breastfeeding and violence are ...
Muireann Maguire
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The Many Nationalities of Tamara Khanum: Friendship of the Peoples at Home, Abroad, and Within
Abstract Inspired by scholarship on empire and historical biography, this article examines the life of Soviet entertainer Tamara Khanum (1906–91) and her formation as a socialist intermediary. First, it considers how an ethnic Armenian born in the Uzbek SSR came to represent an image of liberated Eastern femininity to domestic audiences.
Charles D. Shaw
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Językoznawstwo otwarte i pojęcie толкового чтения [PDF]
The author devoted the paper to the one of three functions of language, which A. Furdal called as communicative, emotional, and symbolic. Paleolinguistics is the field of research, which cannot exist as not open linguistics.
Halina Wątróbska
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From Cosmopolitan to Vernacular in the Language Sciences: A Global History Perspective
Abstract Sheldon Pollock's justly famous work on cosmopolitan orders and processes of vernacularization in the worlds of Latinity and Sanskrit invites questions of a comparative and global‐historical character. I will raise such questions in the context of the Persianate cosmopolitan order, especially as exemplified by the early modern Ottoman Empire ...
Michiel Leezenberg
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A dictionary of locutons from liturgical books by protopriest A. I. Nevostruev (общаюся — оглушеніе) [PDF]
The “Dictionary of Locutions from Liturgical Books” by Protopriest A. Nevostruev, completed in the middle of the 19th century and never published, can be regarded both as a significant achievement of Church Slavonic studies and as a valuable ...
Maria Davydenkova +3 more
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Translation‐Induced Interrogative Relativizers and Stability in Icelandic
Abstract Throughout the history of Icelandic, invariant particles, which do not inflect for semantic or syntactic features of the antecedent, are the typical markers of relative clauses (Þráinsson 2007). Another, putatively foreign strategy—relativization with interrogative–relative pronouns—is archaic in Modern Icelandic, but is frequent between the ...
Christian D. Brendel
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In article one of relevant and not enough studied problems connected with a question of semantic classification of lexicon of orthodox dogma functioning in texts of Church Slavonic language is considered. The author notes that the experiences of semantic
Sergej Vladimirovich Feliksov
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A dictionary of locutions from liturgical books by protopriest A. I. Nevostruev (обличаю — обшествіе) [PDF]
The Dictionary of Locutions from Liturgical Books by Protopriest A. Nevostruev, completed in the middle of the 19th century and never published, can be regarded both as a significant achievement of Church Slavonic studies and as a valuable lexicographic ...
Maria Davydenkova +3 more
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