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Loanwords and Linguistic Phylogenetics: *pelek̑u‐ ‘axe’ and *(H)a(i̯)g̑‐ ‘goat’1

Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 1, Page 116-136, March 2025.
Abstract This paper assesses the role of borrowings in two different approaches to linguistic phylogenetics: Traditional qualitative analyses of lexemes, and quantitative computational analysis of cognacy. It problematises the assumption that loanwords can be excluded altogether from datasets of lexical cognacy.
Simon Poulsen
wiley   +1 more source

The Development of Indo‐Iranian Voiced Fricatives

Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 1, Page 97-115, March 2025.
Abstract The development of voiced sibilants is a long‐standing puzzle in Indo‐Iranian historical phonology. In Vedic, all voiced sibilants are lost from the system, but the details of this loss are complex and subject to debate. The most intriguing development concerns the word‐final ‐aḥ to ‐o in sandhi.
Gašper Beguš
wiley   +1 more source

Haunting the Historiography of Slaves in South Asia from the nineteenth century to the present

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Using both English and Urdu‐language records, this article traces the career of a few African and Afro‐Asian women slaves in the household‐state of Awadh during the first half of the nineteenth century. Focusing on the same records, this article compares a master‐poet's recognition of the motherhood of the African and Afro‐Asian slaves to the ...
Indrani Chatterjee
wiley   +1 more source

The Reception of Classical Persian Poetry in Anglophone World: Problems and Solutions

SOCRATES, 2014
The impact of Persian literature on world culture and literature is undeniable. Persian poets such as Firdowsi, Sa’di, Hafiz, Rumi and Khayyam who deal with universal themes beyond a particular place and time are among the most widely-known literary figures of the world; their works are translated into different languages.
Adineh, Khojastehpour, Behnam, Mirzababazadeh   +1 more
openaire   +3 more sources

A “Tech First” Approach to Foreign Policy? The Three Meanings of Tech Diplomacy

Global Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Scholars have recently argued that international politics is plagued by instability as the world rapidly transitions from one crisis to another. This state of “Permacrisis,” or permanent crises between states, is driven by technological innovations which create new kinds of crises and drive competitions between adversarial states.
Ilan Manor
wiley   +1 more source

11 Nizāmī Ganjavi, the Wordsmith: The Concept of sakhun in Classical Persian Poetry

, 2011
exaly   +2 more sources

The Issue of Pre‐Islamic Arabic Christian Poetry Revisited

Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Is only very little Arabic Christian poetry extant from pre‐Islamic times? While distancing myself from Louis Cheikho's (1859–1927) view that almost all pre‐Islamic poets were Christians, I contend in this article that some of them indeed were.
Ilkka Lindstedt
wiley   +1 more source

Prison of Soul A Study on the Meaning of Cage in Poetic Texts of Persian Literature [PDF]

متن شناسی ادب فارسی, 2013
Considering their thought and ability, poets select some words, which have both useful meaning and high capacity of suggestion and imagery, for conveying their messages. This article discusses one of the frequent, effective, symbolic and imagist words, i.
a Khodaee, m Mehravaran
doaj  

Leveraging Literature for Health Education: The Ideal Teacher Concept in the Works of Khāqānī Shervānī (c. 1120–c. 1199) In Honor of Professor Mohammad Reza Rashed Mohassel's Legacy, Book Chapter Review [PDF]

Future of Medical Education Journal
Background: This article explores the integration of Persian poetry, particularly the works of 12th-century poet and physician Khāqānī Shervānī, into modern medical education to enhance communication strategies and patient care.Method: We investigated ...
Reza Afshari, Seyed Ahmad Emami
doaj   +1 more source

Generative AI and the Future of Musical Diversity

Topics in Cognitive Science, EarlyView.
Abstract I argue that the current proliferation of generative artificial intelligence (AI) represents a new stage in a longer historical process of distancing humans from their unique individual psyches and of reducing participation and cultural diversity in music. The argument consists of six parts: (1) reiterating the uniqueness of individual psyches,
Dor Shilton
wiley   +1 more source