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General linguistics and Indo-European reconstruction [PDF]
, 2010 There is good reason to be ambivalent about the usefulness of general considerations in linguistic reconstruction. As a heuristic device, a theoretical framework can certainly be helpful, but the negative potential of aprioristic considerations must not ...
Kortlandt, Frederik H. H.
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‘Fine Men from Afar’: Cricket and Empire on the Home Front
History, EarlyView.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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An outline of Proto-Indo-European [PDF]
, 2010 Indo-European is a branch of Indo-Uralic which was radically transformed under the influence of a North Caucasian substratum when its speakers moved from the area north of the Caspian Sea to the area north of the Black Sea (cf. Kortlandt 2007b).
Kortlandt, Frederik H. H.
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The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Tracing the early adoption of computer gang databases by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department and the Los Angeles Police Department in the 1980s to the deployment of computationally‐assisted surveillance during the Vietnam War, this paper uses a genealogical approach to compare surveillance technologies developed across the arc of ...
Christina Hughes
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L’età dell’oro sotto Vr̥tra e la formula indoeuropea ‘terra inarata’
Atti del Sodalizio Glottologico Milanese, 2017 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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, 2010 C.C. Uhlenbeck made a distinction between two components of Proto-Indo-European, which he called A and B (1935a: 133ff.). The first component comprises pronouns, verbal roots, and derivational suffixes, and may be compared with Uralic, whereas the second
Kortlandt, Frederik H. H.
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A “Tech First” Approach to Foreign Policy? The Three Meanings of Tech Diplomacy
Global Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Scholars have recently argued that international politics is plagued by instability as the world rapidly transitions from one crisis to another. This state of “Permacrisis,” or permanent crises between states, is driven by technological innovations which create new kinds of crises and drive competitions between adversarial states.
Ilan Manor
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Might Hurro-Urartian and North-Caucasian Languages Be Derived from (or Related to) Indo-European?
Atti del Sodalizio Glottologico Milanese, 2014 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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, 2011 Nepal is a democratic republic located along the southern region of the Himalayan range, bordering India to the south, west, and east and the Tibetan autonomous region of China to the north.
Sijapati, Megan Adamson
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New Frontiers in EU Trade Policy: Moving Beyond Conventional Trade Agreements
Global Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT As the rules‐based international trading system faces stagnation and increasing unilateralism, the European Union's trade policy must evolve beyond conventional free trade agreements (FTAs). This article examines recent trends in EU trade agreements, highlighting not only their expanded scope to include areas such as digital trade ...
Niall Moran
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