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Dialect lexicography in Japan [PDF]

, 2013
En este artículo se traza una panorámica general sobre la lexicografía dialectal en Japón. La primera información dialectal apareció en un diccionario en 1559, y el primer diccionario dialectal se publicó en 1775.
Fukushima, Chitsuko
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Egalitarians despite themselves: envy and leadership in Ecuadorian Amazonia Égalitaires malgré eux : envie et leadership en Amazonie équatorienne

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
The Shuar of Ecuadorian Amazonia once pursued eminence through warfare and vision quests. While vision quests have been retained, today – settled in villages – they seek eminence through economic success and political leadership. This article examines an apparent paradox: whilst envy suspicions pervade public life, they legitimize rather than level ...
Natalia Buitron, Grégory Deshoullière
wiley   +1 more source

STUDENT’S ATTITUDE TOWARDS DICTIONARY AND ITS USAGE : A Case of Study for English Department Students Diponegoro University [PDF]

, 2016
In learning a foreign language, dictionary is one of learning aids to assist students in making decision about making sense of words in usage –in the target language. This research is conducted to discover how English Department students in Universitas
Candra, Calvin, Davin P, Nathaniel, Ersaa M, Aswit., Prihantoro, Prihantoro   +3 more
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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

Regional lexicography: zoological vocabulary in ideographic dictionary

Вестник Самарского университета: История, педагогика, филология, 2020
In the article the working results on one section of the thematic dictionary of Samara dialects are summarized. The study is novel in the application of the ideographic description technique to the large lexical material, which was extracted from the ...
T. E. Bazhenova
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Grandma Clancy\u27s Cootherman Box [PDF]

, 1987
As a child I was often fascinated by a small wooden box in which my grandmother kept her costume jewelry. She referred to it as her Cootherman box. It was not until recently that I decided to investigate the possible origin and meaning behind the word ...
Clancy, Timothy G.
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Romance Loans in Middle Dutch and Middle English: Retained or Lost? A Matter of Metre1

Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.
Abstract Romance words have been borrowed into all medieval West‐Germanic languages. Modern cognates show that the metrical patterns of loans can differ although the Germanic words remain constant: loan words Dutch kolónie, English cólony, German Koloníe compared with Germanic words Dutch wéduwe, English wídow, German Wítwe.
Johanneke Sytsema, Aditi Lahiri
wiley   +1 more source

THE INFLUENCE OF TRADITIONAL MAIDS’ JAVANESE TO CHILDREN’S LANGUAGE [PDF]

, 2013
Children’s language is heavily influenced by several factors. One of them is the children’s interaction with people around them. Traditional maids are among those people. As the children spend their active time together with their maids, their language
Christina, Christina
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Linguistic Evidence Suggests that Xiōng‐nú and Huns Spoke the Same Paleo‐Siberian Language

Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.
Abstract The Xiōng‐nú were a tribal confederation who dominated Inner Asia from the third century BC to the second century AD. Xiōng‐nú descendants later constituted the ethnic core of the European Huns. It has been argued that the Xiōng‐nú spoke an Iranian, Turkic, Mongolic or Yeniseian language, but the linguistic affiliation of the Xiōng‐nú and the ...
Svenja Bonmann, Simon Fries
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Specificity of the Analysis of Syrian Arabic Words and Expressions

RUDN Journal of Language Studies, Semiotics and Semantics
In Arabic countries, the linguistic situation, characterized by diglossia, which manifests itself in the presence of colloquial variants as the primary means of communication and the literary Arabic language as the language of the official sphere ...
Aida D. Haddad, Natalia V. Novospasskaya
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