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Oleksandr Melnyczuk jako etymolog i komparatysta
Studia z Filologii Polskiej i Słowiańskiej, 2019 Oleksandr Mel′nychuk as an Etymologist and Comparatist Oleksandr Mel′nychuk (1921–1997) made a great contribution to the theory and methodology of historical-comparative studies of genetically related languages.
Tetiana O. Chernysh
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There Is no First Phase of the Jespersen Cycle1
Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.Abstract This paper challenges the traditional conception of the Jespersen Cycle by arguing that no ‘pure’ first phase of the cycle exists where a single negator operates without reinforcement. Drawing on historical data from Northern Italian dialects (Piedmontese, Lombard, Emilian), we demonstrate that emphatic negative structures systematically co ...
Tommaso Mattiuzzi, Cecilia Poletto
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POLYPOD VESSELS IN BURIAL RITUALS OF THE EARLY METAL AGE CULTURES OF STEPPE EURASIA
Вестник Кемеровского государственного университета, 2014 The paper focuses on the functions of specific forms of ceramic vessels in burial rituals of the Early Metal Age cultures of Western and Eastern steppe Eurasia.
A. V. Fribus
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Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.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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Origin and identity of the Brokpa of Dah-Hanu, Himalayas – an NRY-HG L1a2 (M357) legacy
Annals of Human Biology, 2019 Background: The Brokpas are an isolated tribal population of the Dah-Hanu villages of the Leh district of India. They speak Dardic, a sub-branch of the Indo-European language family, and are putatively identified as “pure Aryan,” a hegemonic impression ...
Adikarla Syama +6 more
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Linguistica, 1993 Students of Indo-European are beset by thorns, from the third letter of the Runic alphabet through the Hieroglyphic Luvian excrescent +ra/i to Brugmann's 'Notbehelf' *kp of such cognate sets as the word for 'bear'; see J.
Calvert Watkins
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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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Phylogeny of Gobioidei and the origin of European gobies
Frontiers in Marine Science, 2015 The percomorph order Gobioidei comprises over 2200 species worldwide distributed that occupy most freshwater, brackish and marine environments, and show a spectacular variety in morphology, ecology, and behaviour.
Ainhoa Agorreta
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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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LOS INSTRUMENTOS ARGUMENTATIVOS DE LA DEFENSA LASCASIANA DE LA PLENA RACIONALIDAD DE LOS INDIOS
Tópicos, 2013 This work studies Bartolomé de las Casas’ main arguments that defend the full rationality of the American Indians, in which we find (1) a positive description of the American Indian Cultures; (2) a comparison of the former with the ancient Indo-European ...
Víctor Zorrilla
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