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Notes on an ethnonym from East Nepal
, 2003 International audienceThe cognacy of the native Limbu ethnonym yakthung with the ethnonyms rodong, etc., of different 'Rai' groups was proposed by Werner Winter in 1991.
Michailovsky, Boyd
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Clan Group Mongush ~ Mungush: Revisiting the Issues of Ethnogenesis and Name Etymology
Oriental Studies, 2023 Goals. The article attempts an ethnogenetic analysis of the Tuvan clan Mongush and the Kyrgyz clan Mungush, seeks to delineate some features of their intra-clan patronymy, and provides an insight into the clan name etymology with the aid of folk ...
Lyubov S. Kara-ool, Tabyldy A. Akerov
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Valorizing Erasure: Imperial Knowledge Production in Anglo‐American Coverage of Chad's ‘Toyota War’
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT How does imperial knowledge production operate when Western media coverage of a Global South subject is predominantly admiring instead of hostile? This article addresses that question through critical discourse analysis of sixty‐three Anglo‐American news articles covering the Chad‐Libya conflict of the 1980s, the ‘Toyota War’.
Harmata Aboubakar
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Early Medieval Europe, EarlyView.This article presents a newly discovered Latin text: a theological treatise titled Liber testimoniorum veteris testamenti that was written by Alcuin’s friend Candidus (Wizo) at the request of Charlemagne. By discussing selected passages from the Heptateuch, Candidus seeks to demonstrate that Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit, thus the whole Christian ...
Lukas J. Dorfbauer
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, 2021 Though modern linguistics pays great attention to the theory of nomination, in particular to the study of thematic groups, the dialectic names of clothing items are among the least commonly investigated types of words.
Oksana Marunevich, Valentina Kolmakova
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Palatal violence: Sonic gatekeeping and enemy‐making in wartime Ukraine
Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 36, Issue 2, August 2026.Abstract Within 2 days of Russia's full‐scale invasion of Ukraine, a single word—palianytsia, a Ukrainian round loaf—became a phonetic test separating Ukrainians from Russians. The article traces how a culinary term was enregistered as a wartime shibboleth that structurally marks the very citizens it was meant to protect as enemies.
Anatoli Ulyanov
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Reading Research Quarterly, Volume 61, Issue 3, July/August/September 2026.ABSTRACT This historical analysis focuses on the 72‐year legacy of the Summary Investigations of Reading Research (SIRR) originally written by William S. Gray as a monograph in 1925, and continuing under the authorship of Helen Robinson and Samuel Weintraub until 1997.
Catherine Compton‐Lilly +1 more
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AN OVERVIEW OF EPONYMS IN THE LATIN MEDICAL TERMINOLOGICAL SYSTEM [PDF]
Езиков святThis research aims to present a comprehensive classification of eponyms within Latin medical terminology, based on the type of proper name from which they are derived (referred to as “thematic classification”) and the various patterns of eponym ...
Gergana PETKOVA, Vanya IVANOVA
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Gender &History, Volume 38, Issue 2, Page 497-514, July 2026.ABSTRACT This article argues that marriage was central to historical change in the Yoruba‐speaking region of West Africa during the eighteenth century. It draws on ìtàn, a distinct oral source, to show that conjugality shaped Yoruba processes of urbanisation and political centralisation, gendered divisions of labour and social innovation and creativity.
Insa Nolte
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Beyond the Rebel ‘Territorial Trap’: Governing Armed Sovereign Formations in Eastern Myanmar
Development and Change, Volume 57, Issue 3, Page 441-466, May 2026.ABSTRACT Territorial control is a central concept in the study of civil wars and rebel governance. However, scholars often fall into a ‘territorial trap’, assuming that territorial control is either an outcome of or a precondition for armed governance. Based on immersive fieldwork in eastern Myanmar, this article traces how different spatial orderings ...
Tony Neil, Saw Day Chit Htoo
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