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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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Polygyny in Islamic Law and Pukhtun Practice [PDF]
, 2008 This is a postprint (accepted manuscript) version of the article published in Ethnology 47(3):181-93. The final version of the article can be found at http://www.jstor.org/stable/25651559 (login required to access content).
Lindholm, Charles
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Marrying the Unbeliever: Gender, Law, and Disparitas Cultus in Early Modern Japan*
Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.The marriage between a Christian and a non‐Christian has been a highly discussed topic in the history of the Catholic Church and canon law. This study aims to analyse the construction of knowledge concerning disparitas cultus by using a broad array of sources including moral theology, canon law, and missionaries' cases that circulated in different ...
Luisa Stella de Oliveira Coutinho Silva
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Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.This essay examines the role of sound in accounts of Methodism in England during the era of the French Revolution. Drawing on religious writings and political tracts, it explores how the conflict between loyalism and radicalism in the 1790s shaped perceptions of the sonic aspects of Methodist piety among both supporters and opponents of the movement ...
Peter Denney
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Gender Inclusion in Climate Change Adaptation [PDF]
There is increasing evidence that climate change has an impact on natural disasters, such as flooding, and on agricultural production, both of which have implications for gender issues.
Aoyagi, Midori +2 more
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Power, Law and Blood: Sources of Patriarchy in the Middle East [PDF]
, 2013 This unpublished article was kindly provided to BU's institutional repository for deposit by the ...
Lindholm, Charles
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On Technics and Technology as a Modification of the Death Drive
Constellations, EarlyView.
Lachlan Ross
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Mending the Gap Between Law and Practice, Organizational Approaches for Women's Property Rights [PDF]
, 2009 This document presents information of how women in many countries are far less likely than men to own property and assets - key tools to gaining economic security and earning higher incomes.
Anna Knox, Aslihan Kes, Noni Milici
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