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Arheologia Moldovei, 2022 The history of the Romanian (Rm.) term boier (a medieval aristocratic title) is long and rather confusing. Practically, all dictionaries that include entries on that term present it as ultimately derived from Old Church Slavonic (OCS) bolʹarinʺ.
Adrian Poruciuc
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Nationalism, Myth and Reinterpretation of History: The Neglected Case of Interwar Yugoslavia [PDF]
, 2012 This article discusses and challenges some popular myths and perceptions about interwar Yugoslavia in post-socialist (and post-Yugoslav) Serbia. These include discourses that blame ‘others’ – ‘treacherous’ Croats and other non-Serbs, the ‘perfidious ...
Djokic, Dejan
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The Martyrdom of Nadezhda Kurchenko: Soviet Hero Cults and the Spiritual Turn in Late Socialism
The Russian Review, Volume 85, Issue 1, Page 69-87, January 2026.Abstract This article argues that the spiritual turn in Soviet atheism under Brezhnev provided a meaningful solution to the problems of producing heroes when self‐sacrificing martyrs were losing their appeal. To support this claim, I examine the story of Nadezhda Kurchenko, a nineteen‐year‐old flight attendant killed by two hijackers on an Aeroflot ...
Steven E. Harris
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Proposal to encode additional Cyrillic characters in the BMP of the UCS [PDF]
, 2007 This is a proposal to add several Cyrillic characters to the international character encoding standard Unicode. These additions were published in Unicode Standard version 5.1 in March 2008. This proposal includes characters used for various communities,
Birnbaum, David +6 more
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The Role of Contact in Explaining Linguistic Convergence1
Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 3, Page 479-513, November 2025.Abstract In this paper, I explore the question of how linguistic convergence emerges and what the role of contact might be. My case study is the spread of headed relative clauses built around wh‐relative markers in the Standard Average European languages.
Nikolas Gisborne
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Syntactic Organisation of A. D. Kantemir’s Poems
Известия Уральского федерального университета. Серия 2: Гуманитарные науки, 2021 The purpose of this article is to identify and characterise the typological features of the “syntactic portrait” of A. D. Kantemir in the aspects of identification of the “average” poetic syntactic norm of the epoch, as well as in close connection of the
Natalja Victorovna Patroeva
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Mykhailo Hrushevskyi’s Father: Biographical Aspects [PDF]
, 2017 The key scholarly issue of contemporary Ukrainian research is not only a return to existing problems and figures but also a search for new figures and the filling of historical and biographical gaps.
Yurynets, Yaryna
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Predicative Possession in Ukrainian and Intra‐Slavonic Language Contact1
Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 3, Page 428-459, November 2025.Abstract Ukrainian has two inherited syntactic forms for possessive have: a transitive one with a lexical have‐verb, and an intransitive, originally locative be‐construction. On the basis of four corpus studies, the article establishes their relative frequency in Middle Ukrainian writing (17th and 18th c.), Modern Ukrainian dialects (20th c.), and ...
Jan Fellerer
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HISTORICAL DICTIONARIES AS A RESOURCE STUDY OF CHURCH SLAVONIC BORROWINGS
Opera in linguistica ukrainiana, 2019 The article is devoted to the peculiarities of the functioning of Church Slavonic vocabulary in secular monuments of the 16th–18th centuries, in particular, business style (letters, letters, acts, wills, land lustration, inventories, court claims, complaints, contracts, and others), journalistic style (polemical texts) , artistic style (poetry ...
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