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Shamanism in Indo-European mythologies [PDF]
The paper analyzes shamanic cosmology. It is un-Indo-European in its principles and rather typical of Siberian people. The first part describes the ecstatic trances and the cosmological World Tree or Axis mundi, the combination of which is typical of ...
Fournet, A.
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The three skies of the Indo-Europeans [PDF]
The paper aims to describe the approach that Indo-Europeans had about cosmogony and the structure of the sky. It especially relies on the Greek, Latin and Hurrian conceptions. It is shown that the Indo-European cosmogony envisions the sky as three layers:
Fournet, A.
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The most outstanding monuments of ancient Armenia are the huge stone steles vishaps (“dragons”), the first samples of which date back to the beginning of the Middle Bronze Age (14th c. BC).
Armen Ye. Petrosyan
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What to think of Dumezil's tripartite approach of Indo-European cosmologies? [PDF]
The paper analyzes the tripartite approach of Indo-European cosmologies once proposed by Georges Dumezil (1898-1986). The first part describes what Dumezil proposed, and then the second part tries to assess the relevancy and limitations of the tripartite
Fournet, A.
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The genetic origin of the Indo-Europeans [PDF]
The Yamnaya archaeological complex appeared around 3300BCE across the steppes north of the Black and Caspian Seas, and by 3000BCE reached its maximal extent from Hungary in the west to Kazakhstan in the east. To localize the ancestral and geographical origins of the Yamnaya among the diverse Eneolithic people that preceded them, we studied ancient DNA ...
Iosif Lazaridis +93 more
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Osservazioni sulle correlative in vedico
The study of the structure of correlative sentences is of great importance in the context of Indo-European syntax, since this strategy of relativization is present in all earliest attested Indo-European languages, or, at least in the archaic phases of ...
Massimo Vai
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Adjectival clauses with participle: comparison of Basque, Spanish and Czech
It is known that Basque is a non-Indo-European language, and that Romance and Slavic languages are Indo-European. Relative clauses are one of the aspects in which the Basque language has best preserved its non-Indo-European nature.
Karlos Cid Abasolo
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Using state-of-the-art finite-state technology (FST) we automatically generate data of the some 120 most archaic Indo-European (IE) languages from reconstructed Proto-Indo-European (PIE) by means of digitized sound laws.
Jouna Pyysalo +2 more
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Linguistic Contact in Prehistoric Italy: At The Origins of the Placename Imola
This paper explores possible connections between the Indo-European roots *yem-/*jem- and *am- (*me-) and the Etruscan stem am- through the analysis and reconstruction of the pre-Latin etymology of the Italian placename Imola (Bologna, Emilia-Romagna ...
Francesco Perono Cacciafoco +1 more
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Although the original phonemic vowel pattern of the founding era of Indo–European Linguistics (/a i u/) was largely abandoned by the end of the 19th century, there are good reasons to rethink its recovery and functionality. The main reason that led to the rejection of the presence of /a/ in the original vowel pattern can no longer be maintained today ...
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