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Indo-Uralic consonant gradation [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Koivulehto and Vennemann have recently (1996) revived Posti’s theory (1953) which attributed Finnic consonant gradation to Germanic influence, in particular to the influence of Verner’s law. This theory disregards the major differences between Finnic and
Kortlandt, Frederik H. H.
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Insider/Outsider/Transsiders of Transnational Migration

open access: yesStudies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Migration is individually and collectively a challenging but also a transformative praxis and process. In my proposal, I present these in the context of transnational migration of two multigenerational families whose pioneers originally migrated from Turkey to Germany.
Halil Can
wiley   +1 more source

Why rural places matter for regional economic resilience: Insights from agritourism in Northern Thailand

open access: yesSingapore Journal of Tropical Geography, EarlyView.
Research on regional economic resilience has predominantly focused on urban contexts in Europe. This study extends the empirical foundation by examining rural agritourism resilience during the COVID‐19 pandemic in rural Chiang Mai, Thailand. Employing an evolutionary economic geography framework, this research traces the historical development of the ...
Leonard Kwhang‐Gil Lemke   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

How Well Can Words Capture Facial Appearance? A Cross‐Linguistic Exploration

open access: yesTopics in Cognitive Science, EarlyView.
Abstract When describing faces, people often struggle with verbalizing facial features. Free descriptions seem to focus predominantly on aspects of faces that are inferred, for example, psychological traits, age, attractiveness, and so on, whereas facial features themselves are often described in a limited and imprecise fashion.
Ewelina Wnuk, Jan Wodowski
wiley   +1 more source

Backtracking Indo-European languages influence on Indonesian

open access: yes
Indo-European languages are the focus of this study which emphasized the influence of those languages on the Indonesian lexicon and linguistic diversity.
Purwitasari, Ana
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Introduction: Charting the Evolution of English and Anglophone Writing in Asia

open access: yesWorld Englishes, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This introductory article explores the history of the English language and literatures in the Asian ‘Outer Circle’ countries, or English in its ‘second diaspora’, focusing primarily on literature from its beginnings to the present. Due to space limitations, the scope is further narrowed to poetry and the novel – the two genres that, arguably ...
Mohammad A. Quayum
wiley   +1 more source

Colonisation History of Freshwater Snails Across the Atlantic and Mediterranean Islands: Insights From Mercuria (Littorinimorpha, Hydrobiidae)

open access: yesZoologica Scripta, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Islands harbour unique biodiversity, and depending on their geological origin, they have fundamentally different colonisation histories: continental islands may contain relict faunas shaped by vicariance and sporadic gene flow, whereas oceanic islands must have been colonised across open seas, often through long‐distance dispersal events ...
Jonathan P. Miller   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Verb Root Allomorphy in Indo-Aryan Languages [PDF]

open access: yes
This paper aims to theoretically describe the phonological basis for the systematic verb root allomorphy seen in some of the Indo-Aryan languages. To highlight the similarities and differences in allomorphy patterns, three languages, Bangla, Hindi and ...
Sanyal, Paroma
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Norm Circles and the Limitations of European Union Normative Projection in Afghanistan

open access: yesJournal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, Volume 56, Issue 4, December 2026.
ABSTRACT Norm diffusion research explains the international travel of norms in semantic terms, through resonance, framing, grafting and localisation. Such accounts presuppose norms to be portable objects whose identity persists through transit. Yet, ontologically, norms exert causal force only where a real social group endorses and enforces them.
Oz Hassan
wiley   +1 more source

Investigating languages in prehistory : the linguistic roots of Europe

open access: yes, 2015
Homelands, theories of origin and chronologies: research on Europe's linguistic prehistory. The research on Europe's linguistic history has been dominated by some classic questions about the origin of the Indo-European languages: a.
Mailhammer, Robert (R16975)
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