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What can Nabataean Aramaic tell us about Pre‐Islamic Arabic?
Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, Volume 34, Issue 1, Page 158-172, November 2023., 2023 Abstract Nabataean Aramaic contains a large number of loanwords from Arabic. Together with other evidence, this has been taken as an indication that the Nabataeans used Aramaic as a written language only, while a Pre‐Islamic variety of Arabic was their spoken language.
Benjamin D. Suchard
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Solidarity with everyone? Intergroup helping and COVID‐19
Journal of Community &Applied Social Psychology, Volume 33, Issue 5, Page 1309-1326, September/October 2023., 2023 Abstract This study investigates peoples' prosocial attitudes and real‐life prosocial behaviour towards different ethnic groups during the COVID‐19 pandemic, taking Germany as an empirical example. In a preregistered multi‐study design, we examined: (a) who receives help, (b) who helps and (c) what explains prosocial behaviour. In study 1, we conducted
Ruta Yemane +5 more
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Change-of-Name Petitions of the NewYork Courts: An Untapped Source in Historical Onomastics
Names, 1986 Arthur Scherr
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The “Cthulhu network”: The process by which the popular myth was made
The Journal of Popular Culture, Volume 56, Issue 2, Page 324-340, April 2023., 2023 Abstract In the context of popular culture, the work of Lovecraft deserves a prominent role, not only for its influence on many later authors, but for its profound impact on 20th century popular culture, from music and video games to films, comics, and merchandising.
Jose Luis Arroyo‐Barrigüete
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Történelemkonstruálás – névkonstruálás
Névtani Értesítő, 2020 Constructing history – constructing names. Personal names of early Hungarian history and the posterity The topic of the paper is how people of modern times attempt to approach the onomasticon of personal names of the past, of which they lack ...
TAMÁS FARKAS
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Renaissance Studies, Volume 37, Issue 1, Page 57-74, February 2023., 2023 Abstract This article widens the focus of the debate around multilingualism in early modern Europe. Using the life‐writing of a scholar, traveller and Protestant minister from the Scottish Highlands, Rev. James Fraser (1634–1709), it provides a North Sea perspective on the theme. The article sheds light on how Fraser and his locale (the ‘firthlands’ of
David Worthington
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Oxford Journal of Archaeology, Volume 41, Issue 4, Page 447-467, November 2022., 2022 Summary One of the most prolific areas of agrarian production of the Roman Empire was the Guadalquivir valley of Hispania Baetica. The current study was carried out in the region downstream from Corduba (Córdoba), the capital of Baetica. Knowledge of amphorae from this zone, often underrepresented at consumption sites, has in recent times undergone a ...
Iván González Tobar
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THE ENDLESS ACCUMULATION OF HISTORY IN FINANCIAL TIMES
History and Theory, Volume 61, Issue 2, Page 330-344, June 2022., 2022 ABSTRACT This essay engages with Amin Samman's incisive 2019 text, History in Financial Times, which unfolds a philosophy of history for contemporary “financial times.” I turn first to Samman's concept of the strange loops of financial history, and so to the historical turn initiated by the subprime crisis of 2008.
C. N. Biltoft
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A Kiss Lajos-díj 2018. évi nyertese: dr. Győrffy Erzsébet
Névtani Értesítő, 2019 Winner of the 2018 Lajos Kiss Prize: Dr Erzsébet Győrffy The Lajos Kiss Prize, awarded every two or three years since 2006, is considered to be a highly prestigious award for young onomasticians.
ISTVÁN HOFFMANN
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Slave naming patterns : onomastics and the taxonomy of race in eighteenth-century Jamaica [PDF]
, 2001 Every year, slave owners responsible for managing estates were required by Jamaican law to submit to the local vestry an account of the whites, slaves, and livestock on their properties.
Burnard, Trevor
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