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The semantic complexity of Hausa kinship terms

open access: yesTopics in Linguistics, 2023
This study aims at analysing the absolute semantic complexity of kin terms in Hausa, i.e. to measure the amount of semantic information of individual kin terms. Each kin term is defined by a set of sufficient and necessary conditions (i.e. properties and
Batic Gian Claudio
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Sorbian kinship terminology according to the data in Volume 11. "Degrees of Kinship" of the Slavic Linguistic Atlas (preliminary results)

open access: yesZeszyty Łużyckie
The study expounds up-to-date data on kinship names in the Sorbian dialects based on an analysis of linguistic maps with commentary available in Volume 11.
Славка Керемидчиева
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Dholuo Kincepts in Western Kenya

open access: yesStudies in African Linguistics, 2020
The Luo are a Nilotic people living in western Kenya, north-eastern Tanzania and in western Uganda. Their language, Dholuo, forms part of the Western Nilotic group of languages.
Washington Onyango-Ouma   +1 more
doaj   +3 more sources

EVOLUTION OF SUCCESSION IN ROMAN LAW [PDF]

open access: yesChallenges of the Knowledge Society, 2022
At the beginning, the Romans did not accept the idea that patrimonial rights could be passed on to each other, neither by acts inter vivos, nor by the cause of death.
Elena ANGHEL
doaj  

Karakalpak relationship terminology and its reflection in etiquette behavior

open access: yesИсторическая этнология, 2022
Kinship terminology in the traditional culture represents an ethnocultural phenomenon, in which specific features of the stages of the historical development of a certain people are recognized, as well as the forms of social organization that reflect the
Madiyar B. Utebaev
doaj   +1 more source

WHY CAN HUNTER-GATHERER GROUPS BE ORGANIZED SIMLARLY FOR RESOURCE PROCUREMENT, BUT THEIR KINSHIP TERMINOLOGIES ARE STRIKINGLY DISSIMILAR: A CHALLENGE FOR FUTURE CROSS-CULTURAL RESEARCH [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Cross-cultural research involves explanatory arguments framed at the meta-level of a cohort of societies, each with its own historical development as an internally structured and organized system.
Read, Dwight W
core  

Revising Fascial Anatomy With a Focus on the Fusion Fascia in Mesenteric Gastrointestinal Cancer Surgery

open access: yesAnnals of Gastroenterological Surgery, EarlyView.
This review critically reassesses our prior hypothesis and proposes a revised anatomical model of the fusion fascia that is broadly applicable to GI cancer surgeries grounded in the principles of mesenteric resection. Our synthesis suggests that the fusion fascia is neither a dense connective tissue membrane nor a remnant of mesothelial fusion, but ...
Hisashi Shinohara   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Devices for Information Presentation in Electronic Dictionaries

open access: yesLexikos, 2012
Electronic dictionaries should support dictionary users by giving them guidance in text production and text reception, alongside a user-definable offer of lexicographic data for cognitive purposes.
D. J. Prinsloo   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Becoming - An Anthropological Approach to Understandings of the Person in Java [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
'Becoming - An Anthropological Approach to Understandings of the Person in Java' is an ethnographic monograph that examines the ways in which the peoples of a peri-urban locality in East Java, Indonesia conceive of the person, by looking at how their ...
Retsikas, Kostas
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KINSHIP TERMINOLOGY IN THE LUŽNICA REGION

open access: yes, 2020
The paper offers an analysis of the kinship terminology for the relations by blood or marriage in the Lužnica region compiled in Recnik govora Lužnice (The Dictionary of the Lužnica Dialect, 2018) by Lj. Ciric.
Nadežda Jović
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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