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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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Insider/Outsider/Transsiders of Transnational Migration
Studies 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
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Holger Pedersen's "Études lituaniennes" revisited [PDF]
, 2010 Holger Pedersen’s "Études lituaniennes" reflects the issues under discussion at the time of its publication (1933). Its five unequal chapters deal with the following topics: I.
Kortlandt, Frederik H. H.
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Adjectival typology in four ancient Indo-European languages
, 2023 In some recent works, a new functional-typological definition of parts of speech based on Croft’s PoS theory has been proposed and applied to three ancient IE languages, namely RV Sanskrit, Homeric Greek and Latin. The results were promising.
Alfieri, Luca, Pozza, Marianna
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Language tree divergence times support the Anatolian theory of Indo-European origin [PDF]
, 2003 Languages, like genes, provide vital clues about human history. The origin of the Indo-European language family is 'the most intensively studied, yet still most recalcitrant, problem of historical linguistics'.
Gray, Russell D. +8 more
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How Well Can Words Capture Facial Appearance? A Cross‐Linguistic Exploration
Topics 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
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Introduction: Charting the Evolution of English and Anglophone Writing in Asia
World 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
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Notas sobre lingüística histórica (II)
Anuario del Seminario de Filología Vasca "Julio de Urquijo", 2008 Campbell & Poser offer what is probably the most accurate and balanced discussion on the issue, i.e. genealogy in linguistics. Authors make use of the research done with well known language families, already with a contrasted tradition in the field of
José Andrés Alonso de la Fuente
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Norm Circles and the Limitations of European Union Normative Projection in Afghanistan
Journal 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
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Theatres of Indirectness: Passive Aggression and Failure
Critical Quarterly, EarlyView.
Sara Crangle, Sam Ladkin
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