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Bridging the Late Antique Gap in Northwest Arabia: New Archaeological Evidence on the Occupation of Wādī al‐Qurā (al‐ʿUlā [AlUla], Saudi Arabia) Between the Third and Seventh Centuries CE

open access: yesArabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In 2019, the Dadan Archaeological Project (CNRS/RCU/AFALULA) identified a Late Antique village 1 km south of ancient Dadan in the al‐ʿUlā valley (northwest Saudi Arabia). Three excavation seasons at this site (2021–2023) have uncovered a massive building constructed in the late third or early fourth cent.
Jérôme Rohmer   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

Internal evidence for final vowel lowering in Hausa

open access: yesStudies in African Linguistics, 1990
Internal factors involving phonotactic asymmetries and irregular morphological alternations suggest that final */uu/ in Hausa historically lowered to /oo/ when the preceding syllable contained /aa/, e.g. *kwaacfoo 'frog' < *kwaacfuu.
Paul Newman
doaj  

An Overview of the Rock Art of AlUla: Tracing Changes in Content and Form Across 12,000 Years of Human History

open access: yesArabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Between 2018 and 2021, the Identification and Documentation of Immovable Heritage Assets (IDIHA) Project recorded over 19,000 rock art panels in the AlUla (al‐‘Ulā) region of north‐western Saudi Arabia. This study presents a chronological assessment of the corpus, drawing on superimpositions, datable motifs, inscriptions, and varnish formation,
Maria Guagnin   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

ON the high non-expanded vowels of Yoruboid

open access: yesStudies in African Linguistics, 1985
A current debate going on among Yoruba linguists is the existence and phonological status of the high non-expanded vowels. Indeed while Igala, Isekiri and many Yoruba dialects exhibit a seven-vowel system, other Yoruba dialects exhibit a ·nine-vowel ...
Hounkpati B. Capo
doaj  

Spatial demonstratives, perceptual space, and linguistic diversity [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
versus extrapersonal space; object location ...
Coventry, Kenny   +2 more
core   +2 more sources

Strategic litigation as a challenge for deliberative democracy

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract Strategic litigation is a growing public concern, but remains understudied in democratic theory. In strategic litigation, collectives go to court with a political agenda that goes beyond their specific case. How should we assess the legitimacy of strategic litigation? Building on Lafont's model of deliberative democracy and Klein's distinction
Svenja Ahlhaus
wiley   +1 more source

The Unbecoming Ghost: Spectropolitics in the Making and Unmaking of BHU's Bhoot Vidya Ayurveda Certificate Program

open access: yesAnthropology of Consciousness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This essay examines the controversy surrounding the Bhoot Vidya certificate program proposed by the Faculty of Ayurveda at Banaras Hindu University in 2019. Drawing on media coverage, curricular materials, and government policy, I analyze how the debate reveals broader tensions in the politics of contemporary Ayurveda, nationalism, and ...
Thomas Seibel
wiley   +1 more source

Dynamics of Process Constituent Representation of Sports Event in Diachronic Corpus

open access: yesВестник Волгоградского государственного университета: Серия 2. Языкознание, 2017
The article presents an overview of opinions on Corpus linguistics, methodology of corpus researches is discussed in synchronic and diachronic perspectives, and the corpus statistical tools are discussed as a means to reveal the thematic organization of ...
Elena Yu. Ilyinova, Larisa A. Kochetova
doaj   +1 more source

The exploitation of silver deposits in early medieval Europe: some documentary, economic and social problems

open access: yesArchaeometry, EarlyView.
Abstract Focusing on Southern Europe, this article sheds light on the mining landscape of the early Middle Ages. Based on the current state of historical and archaeological knowledge, the article raises a number of questions that can be extended to other European regions.
Nicolas Minvielle Larousse
wiley   +1 more source

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