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O kilku możliwych śladach duale tantum w językach indoeuropejskich

LingVaria, 2018
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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The Big Picture: Religion and Global Comparative History

Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.
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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On the Overlooked Diversity of Clause Structures and Argument Structures in Non-Indo-European Languages

Languages
This article responds to a conference call for papers that makes universalist assumptions about clause structures, assuming all languages in the world basically follow the same organizing principles in terms of clause structure, argument structure, and ...
Randy J. LaPolla
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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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Hunting in the Ghaznavid State: Courtly Culture, Military Practices and Political Power

History, EarlyView.
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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Grain legume crop history among Slavic nations traced using linguistic evidence

Czech Journal of Genetics and Plant Breeding, 2014
With Proto-Slavic and other Proto-Indo-European homelands close to each other and on the routes of domestication of the first cultivated grain legumes, now known as pulses, one may assume that the ancestors of the modern Slavic nations knew field beans ...
Aleksandar MIKIĆ
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The Coloniality of Data: Police Databases and the Rationalization of Surveillance from Colonial Vietnam to the Modern Carceral State

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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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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Um tratamento quantitativo para a classificação das línguas Indo-Européias Quantitative approach to the classification of Indo-European language

DELTA: Documentação de Estudos em Lingüística Teórica e Aplicada, 2006
Este trabalho tem por objetivo demonstrar a aplicação de uma metodologia cladística da Biologia Evolucionária na análise da classificação das línguas Indo-Européias por meio de caracteres fonológicos e morfológicos de 12 famílias lingüísticas.
Lincoln Almir Amarante Ribeiro
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Rozum i serce. Pamięć w wybranych językach indoeuropejskich

Stylistyka, 2020
The article discusses the subject of memory-related pie. etymons in Indo-European languages. In the group of dictionary data which was collected, memory is an ability of the human mind and ability located in the heart. Remembering is one of the functions
Katarzyna Wyrwas
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