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INDO-EUROPEAN DENDRONYMS: “OAK”
This article explores the lexical and etymological designations of “oak” within the Indo-European language family. The analysis identifi es three primary etymological roots associated with the oak: The following words are of particular interest in this ...
Bohdan Chernyukh
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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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Abstract Few have asked what happens to gender when a noun is heteroclitic – when its inflection draws on more than one inflection class. While heteroclisis has moved from being treated as a marginal irregularity to a theoretically revealing phenomenon, its implications for gender assignment remain largely unexplored.
Greville G. Corbett
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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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The Big Picture: Religion and Global Comparative History
This article considers what a ‘big picture’ approach to global religious history might look like, and in particular the implications of deploying the comparative method across much larger stretches of time and space than historians normally attend to. It will begin by reflecting on the epistemological moods that have hindered this project to date, the ...
Alan Strathern
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Prometheus or Amirani. An updated study on the Pre-Greek substrate and its origins
In the late 80s and early 90s, Colin Renfrew presented his Anatolian hypothesis. According to him, the agrarian revolution begun in Anatolia, and from there, it spread out in Europe.
T. Giampaolo, P. Kitselis
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‘Fine Men from Afar’: Cricket and Empire on the Home Front
Abstract During the Second World War, contrary to enduring images of bombardment and scarcity, people on Britain's ‘Home Front’ continued to take part in a broad array of sporting activities. Cricket played a more significant role in the wartime sporting landscape than many historians have previously recognized.
Michael Collins
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O trabalho no universo indo-europeu: uma interpretação etimológico-onomástica
This article aims at the propositional recovery of the social, primitive, structures of some indo-european people, from their social relationships based on work.
Josenir Alcântara de Oliveira
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Hunting in the Ghaznavid State: Courtly Culture, Military Practices and Political Power
Abstract Hunting occupied an important place in the royal court culture of the Ghaznavid state (963–1186 CE). Ghaznavid hunting culture developed through the interaction of Turkic‐Islamic political traditions, Persianate models of kingship and local ecological settings. Rather than constituting a fully formalized institution, Ghaznavid hunting practice
Arslan Durdu
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