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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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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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The Indo-European puzzle revisited : Integrating Archaeology, Genetics, and Linguistics
THis represent the first systematic interdisciplinary integration of new results on Indo-European languages from archaeology, linguistics and ...
Kroonen, Guus +2 more
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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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The cognitive approach to the study of the semantic development of words provides a more capacious description of their meanings especially the figurative ones expressed as a rule in the form of metaphors.
Tatiana Anatolevna Galochkina
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ABSTRACT Indo‐Caribbean groups, who settled in the Caribbean via the colonial system of Indian indentured labour, have long been marginal in discussions of diaspora and Caribbeanness. This paper explores how Indo‐Guadeloupeans—from Guadeloupe, a current French overseas territory—articulate post‐indenture identities by developing two interrelated ...
Manuela Latchoumaya
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Book review of Robert P. S. Beekes. Comparative Indo-European Linguistics, an Introduction (2nd Ed. revised and corrected by M. de Vaan) [PDF]
With his second editon of the Comparative Indo-European Linguistics. An Introduction, Robert Beekes presents a new version of his handbook of Indo-European Linguistics, first published in 1995 from the Dutch original of 1990 (Vergleijkende taalwetenshap:
Vernet Pons, Mariona
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The Meaning and Etymology of ārya
The present paper considers the issue of the Sanskrit term ārya, starting from the use of ārya and arya as ‘freeman’ and ‘owner’ in opposition to dāsa ‘servant’ (or śūdra), from the Vedas to the Arthaśāstra and Pāli texts (in the form ayya).
Benedetti, Giacomo
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ABSTRACT Whether and why social processes support global HRM integration is an overlooked, yet increasingly relevant performance question in decentralized transnational work environments. Using social capital theory, we conceptualize the social dynamic and behaviors influencing global HRM integration.
Olga Tregaskis +7 more
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Hittite hi-verbs and the Indo-European perfect [PDF]
In an earlier study (1983) I argued that unlike aorists and athematic presents, Indo-European perfects and thematic presents originally had a dative subject, as in German mir träumt ‘me dreams’ for ich träume ‘I dream’, e.g.
Kortlandt, Frederik H. H.
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