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An Etruscan solution to a Celtic problem
, 2009 It is argued that what used to be called "P-Celtic" arose because Etruscans could not pronounce properly the Indo-European languages which they encountered in and around Italy. Etruscan influence can neatly explain not only the phenomenon of P-Celtic but
Counihan, Martin
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Current scientific advances are reshaping our understanding of prehistory, offering unprecedented insights into the movements and kinship patterns of prehistoric populations.
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Uralic vs Indo-European contacts: borrowing vs local emergence vs chance resemblances
, 2014 The article describes the (assumed) contacts and borrowing between Indo-European and Uralic, pointing out that borrowing at the level of proto-languages is a priori impossible, and that therefore the few, real correlations among Uralic and Indo-European ...
MARCANTONIO, Angela
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Caste criminalisation in South India and permanent migration to Fiji, 1903–1927
Asia‐Pacific Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract Does the official criminalisation of a group lead to permanent out‐migration? In the early 20th century, British officials in south India designated multiple castes as inherently criminal under the Criminal Tribes Act (CTA). The CTA required police registration and could force entire groups into special settlements.
Alexander Persaud
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, 2018 By the term Indo -European we are referring to a family of languages which by the time of the second millennium bce were spoken over a large part of Europe and parts of southwestern and southern Asia.
Cuzzolin, Pierluigi
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, 2018 We recount the evidence for the so-called “Steppe Hypothesis” discussed in Damgaard et al. 2018 and offer a revised linguistic and historical model for the prehistoric dispersal of three important Indo-European language subgroups—the Anatolian Indo ...
Peyrot, M. +8 more
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Spectacle and Spy Stories: The 1954 Royal Commission on Espionage
Australian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The Menzies government's 1954 royal commission, established to investigate Soviet espionage in Australia, is well known as the backdrop to the Labor Party split. It saw opposition leader H.V. Evatt's demise and ushered in an almost 20‐year period of Liberal Party governance.
Ebony Nilsson
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Valuing All Languages in Europe
, 2007 The VALEUR project (2004-2007) took as its focus the 'additional' languages of Europe. These are defined as all languages in use in contexts where they are not 'national', 'official', or 'dominant' languages.
McPake, Joanna +8 more
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Australian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article explores Australian media commentary on white Rhodesians migrating to Australia, focusing on the period of Malcolm Fraser's prime ministership (1975–1983). The main argument is that the Australian media debates about whether to classify white Rhodesians as ‘migrants’ or ‘refugees’ were not merely semantic but reflected a deeper ...
George Bishi, Ana Stevenson
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Studia z Filologii Polskiej i Słowiańskiej, 2015 Polish against the tendency of changing word-order in indo-European languages (left-branching shift to right-branching) One of the evolutive tendencies in indo-European languages is the gradual shift toward right-branching constructions (the head ...
Marek Gawełko
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