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Cutting freedom down to size Liberté calibrée

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Freedom, as a concept and a value, presents limited prospects for anthropological comparison. The study of enslavement, much neglected in attempts to develop an anthropology of freedom, shows that freedom has been imagined by the enslaved as the opposite of their condition only under particular circumstances.
Harri Englund
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Kenyan English Dialects of English ;, v. 14./ Alfred Buregeya.

, 2019
Includes bibliographical references and index.1 online resource (xiv, 258 pages.)
Buregeya Alfred
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Modern theatrics of love: desires and consumption in the Indian middle class Le théâtre moderne de l'amour : désirs et consommation dans la classe moyenne indienne

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
This article analyses class construction amongst the urban Indian middle class, through a novel prism of romantic love, specifically performances of romantic love which in turn highlight anxieties of being middle class. The article explains how a performance of romantic love before marriage is used as a basis by the middle class to claim being global ...
Parul Bhandari
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Fronting in Old Catalan: Asymmetries between Narration and Reported Speech1

Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 1, Page 1-28, March 2025.
Abstract This article explores the distribution, syntax, and information structure of XVS clauses in the narrative text and the reported speech of a thirteenth‐century Old Catalan chronicle, the Llibre dels Fets. It is shown that XVS occurs mainly within reported speech and in embedded clauses.
Afra Pujol i Campeny
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A study on university students' cognition, attitudes toward usage and preservation of Chinese dialects in Xinjiang: a sustainability-oriented perspective. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Ma Y, Bao H, Ke X.
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The dialectical movement of the dialectic: from the dialectic of contradiction to the dialectic of commune

Studies in Urban Humanities, 2019
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The Greek dialects in Southern Italy. Effects of language contact on nominal syntax.

, 2012
Background. According to some recent analyses (Guardiano 2006, Alexiadou, Haegeman, Stavrou 2007) of the Greek Determiner Phrase, adnominal adjectives are unexceptionally prenominal, despite some apparent evidence to the contrary ((a) postnominal ...
GUARDIANO, Cristina, M. Stavrou
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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
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Ontogeny of dialects across chimpanzee vocalisations. [PDF]

PLoS One
Giragosian K, Davila-Ross M, Taylor D.
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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
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