A comparative study of kinship terms in the new west Iranian languages [PDF]
زبان پژوهیThis article is a research study on the kinship terms of some New West Iranian languages, including Kurdish, Hawrami, Talysh, and Tati from the New Northwest Iranian sub-branch, and Persian and Luri from the New Southwest Iranian sub-branch.
Reza Amini
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Who let the trolls out? Towards understanding state-sponsored trolls [PDF]
, 2019 Recent evidence has emerged linking coordinated campaigns by state-sponsored actors to manipulate public opinion on the Web. Campaigns revolving around major political events are enacted via mission-focused ?trolls." While trolls are involved in ...
Blackburn, Jeremy +5 more
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Europe: So Many Languages, So Many Cultures [PDF]
, 2011 The number of different languages in Europe by far exceeds the number of countries. All European countries have national languages, and in nearly all of them there are minority languages as well, whereas all major languages have dialects.
Steinhauer, H. (Hein)
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A Middle Persian Inscription from Persepolis [PDF]
Iranian Journal of Archaeological Studies, 2013 This article deciphers and analyzes a previously unknown Sassanian mint location represented by the inscription WLČ., based on the analysis of a Middle Persian inscription found in Persepolis, and on the linguistic changes that occurred during the ...
Maryam Ansari
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Networking Phylogeny for Indo-European and Austronesian Languages [PDF]
, 2009 Harnessing cognitive abilities of many individuals, a language evolves upon their mutual interactions establishing a persistent social environment to which language is closely attuned. Human history is encoded in the rich sets of linguistic data by means
Dimitri Volchenkov +3 more
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Paleolinguistics brings more light on the earliest history of the traditional Eurasian pulse crops [PDF]
, 2011 Traditional pulse crops such as pea, lentil, field bean, bitter vetch, chickpea and common vetch originate from Middle East, Mediterranean and Central Asia^1^.
Aleksandar Medovic +7 more
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The Relation between Grammaticalization and Intersubjectification in Designating the Genesis of Modal Auxiliaries [PDF]
مطالعات زبانها و گویشهای غرب ایران, 2020 This paper considers role of grammaticalization and intersubjectification in determining the origin of some modal auxiliaries in Iranian languages. These auxiliaries, based on Nuyts (2005 and further) express deontic necessity, epistemic possibility ...
Sepideh Koohkan +2 more
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Gendered Representations of Male and Female Social Actors in Iranian Educational Materials [PDF]
, 2016 This research investigates the representations of gendered social actors within the subversionary discourse of equal educational opportunities for males and females in Iranian English as a Foreign Language (EFL) books.
A Fast +50 more
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Relative Chronology of Sound changes in Iranian languages [PDF]
زبان پژوهی, 2020 Relative chronology in historical linguistics refers to temporal order of sound changes affecting a language. Because a sound change is restricted to a particular period of time in the history of the language in which it takes place, this enables us to ...
Esfandiar Taheri
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Contrastive Rhetoric: A study of Introduction and Thesis Statement in the American English and Persian Expository Essays [PDF]
Matn/Pizhūhī-i Adabī, 2006 Iranian students often face serious problems in learning to write English composition. Out of the different factors affecting the students' concepts, schemata and strategies in writing English composition, the influence of L 1 rhetorical organization in ...
mohammad taghi haani
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