O kilku możliwych śladach duale tantum w językach indoeuropejskich
On Some Possible Traces of Duale Tantum in Indo-European Languages The paper is devoted to three selected Indo-European nouns that can be considered as dualia tantum.
Krzysztof Tomasz Witczak
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K jedné kapitole z dějin jazykovědy. Příspěvek k 150. výročí úmrtí srovnávacího jazykovědce Augusta Schleichera | One chapter in the history of linguistics. A note on the 150th anniversary of the death of comparative linguist August Schleicher [PDF]
The article concerns the history of linguistics in the 19th century, in particular August Schleicher’s place in the history of linguistics and his scholarly heritage for linguistics in the 20th century, recalling that he was the founder of a method ...
Lenka Vodrážková
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The basis of linguistic reconstruction is the comparative method, which starts from the assumption that there is “a stronger affinity, both in the roots of verbs and in the forms of grammar, than could possibly have been produced by accident”, implying ...
Frederik Kortlandt
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Germany’s and European Union’s Indo-Pacific Stance: Towards a Value-Based Pragmatism
Introduction. The growing use of the Indo-Pacific concept in the European and German discourses necessitates a closer scrutiny of its implementation. The author’s hypothesis, founded on the assumption of Germany’s central role in the European Union’s ...
Gleb V. Toropchin
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Geopolitical dimension of thinking in the Albanian language supports the Euro-Atlantic integration
This work starts with the premise that the Albanian language is one of most ancient languages in the world and stands in the root of the common trunk of the Indo-European languages. The common pre-Indo-European origin is preserved in the present Albanian
Bujar Abedinaj
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Cross-linguistic variation in modality systems: The role of mood
The St'át'imcets (Lillooet Salish) subjunctive mood appears in nine distinct environments, with a range of semantic effects, including weakening an imperative to a polite request, turning a question into an uncertainty statement, and creating an ...
Lisa Matthewson
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L’età dell’oro sotto Vr̥tra e la formula indoeuropea ‘terra inarata’
In a Rāmāyaṇa passage Vr̥tra is represented as a king of the Golden Age. Virtuous, pious and compassionate, he is killed by a ruthless Indra. The meaning of such an anomalous episode is analyzed in the light of the dumezilian comparative method ...
Rosa Ronzitti
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Might Hurro-Urartian and North-Caucasian Languages Be Derived from (or Related to) Indo-European?
Several basic-lexicon etymologies, with regular sound correspondences, suggest Hurro-Urartian (HU) might be derived from (or related to) Proto-Indo-European (PIE). Preliminary evidence suggests North-Caucasian (NC) languages might also be related to PIE –
Gianfranco Forni
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Kosmas´s and Dalimil´s “girl´s war” as a metaphor of the Indo-European war of functions. What we want to introduce in our contribution, is an attempt at an interpretation of the old story from Czech medieval chronicles.
Martin Golema
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Kulturelt betinget kognition. En relancering af ideen om en indoeuropæisk ideologi
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: In this article I examine how and (to some extent) why the Indo-European, tri-functional ideology survived in a number of Indo-European cultures despite the fact that these cultures had been separated in terms of time and space a long ...
Maria Kallestrup Larsen
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