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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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Rural anthroponyms in the shchuchin dialect of the Voronezh region
НеофилологияINTRODUCTION. The study is carried out in the context of the anthropocentric paradigm and is devoted to the topic of “Man”. Nickname nominations and their unique characteristics are considered.
L. V. Nedostupova
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Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.Abstract This study investigates the lexicographical potential of Medieval Latin documentation from the Venetian area of the Italo‐Romance domain, highlighting the need for a systematic approach to bridge Latin and vernacular linguistic developments. The project MEDITA – Medieval Latin Documentation and Digital Italo‐Romance Lexicography.
Jacopo Gesiot
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Zoonyms in Personal Names of Kalmyks and Chinese
Oriental Studies, 2018 Proceeding from Kalmyk- and German-language materials collected through continuous sampling from diverse corresponding dictionaries, the article provides a comparative study of zoonyms which are one of the most underinvestigated categories of onomastics.
Aliya Kh. Korneeva
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Frequency and accuracy of weight comments by others, and the association with weight misperception among Hong Kong adolescents [PDF]
, 2009 *Purpose:* To assess the frequency and accuracy of weight comments received from different sources among Chinese adolescents and the relation of weight comments to weight misperception. *Methods:* In the Hong Kong Student Obesity ...
Kwok-Kei Mak +4 more
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Gender &History, EarlyView.Abstract This article investigates the ways in which late‐nineteenth‐century students at Northwestern University's Cumnock School of Oratory mobilised elocution training and parlour performance to foster mixed‐gender public discourse. I use student publications to reconstruct parlour meetings in which women and men adapted traditions of conversational ...
Fiona Maxwell
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Gender &History, EarlyView.Abstract In contrast to the wealth of literature on the gendered and sexual politics of Indian nationalism, studies on the internationalisation of Indian anti‐colonial nationalism are rarely informed by the twin themes of gender and sexuality. As Indian activists traversed international political spaces in the early twentieth century, they frequently ...
Joanna Simonow
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Актуальні питання суспільних наук та історії медицини, 2015 Рулёва Н. Неофициальная наименование личности как средство выражения юмора. В статье анализируется неофициальная (народно-бытовая) система наименования личности, так как она ещё недостаточно исследована, особенно в теоретическом аспекте.
Рульова Наталія
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We are not alone ! (at least, most of us). Homonymy in large scale social groups
, 2017 This article brings forward an estimation of the proportion of homonyms in large scale groups based on the distribution of first names and last names in a subset of these groups.
Charpentier, Arthur, Coulmont, Baptiste
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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In Spain, under General Franco's regime, homosexuality was regarded as an antisocial and dangerous behaviour. It was thus pursued both by the police and judicial courts. The Law on Vagrants and Crooks (1954) and, subsequently, the Law on Dangerousness and Social Rehabilitation (1970) constituted the legal mechanisms used by the dictatorship to
Jordi Mas Grau, Rafael Cáceres‐Feria
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