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Time, space, modality, and (inter)subjectivity : Futures in isiNdebele and other Nguni languages

open access: yes, 2019
Perhaps more than any other tense, expressions of futurity are intricately linked to modality: the future is inherently uncertain. This paper explores the outcomes of future markers grammaticalized from ‘come’ and ‘go’ in isiNdebele and several other ...
Mabena, Msuswa Petrus   +1 more
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A Survey of Body Part Construction Metaphors in the Neo-Assyrian Letter Corpus

open access: yesJournal of Open Humanities Data
The dataset consists of approximately 2,400 examples of metaphors in Akkadian of what we term Body Part Constructions (BPCs) within the letter sub-corpus of the State Archives of Assyria online (SAAo).
Matthew Ong, Shai Gordin
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Multilingual competencies among ambulatory care providers in three German Federal States

open access: yesBMC Primary Care, 2022
Background Providing medical care to newly arrived migrants presents multiple challenges. A major challenge is a lack of a common language in the absence of language interpretation services.
Frank Müller   +4 more
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Arabic Language Curriculum Development in Ma’had Umar Bin Al-Khattab Surabaya in Maintaining Middle Eastern Culture-based Educational Institutions.

open access: yesAcademia Open, 2021
Ma’had Umar Bin Al-Khattab Surabaya is an educational institution that concentrates on providing Arabic language education and islamic studies with an institutional style based on Middle Eastern Culture. This study aims to describe and analyze the development of the Arabic language curriculum and the achievement of Arabic curriculum development at MUBK
Luthfi Ans, Budi Haryanto
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The edge environment in Cairo: An approach to reading the social pattern language of the Middle Eastern built environment

open access: yesInternational Journal of Sustainable Built Environment, 2012
AbstractThis paper introduces a new concept that might help in reading both social life and urban process, showing how they are interlocked in a way that clarifies ideologies and their implications for the physical form of the city. This reading is capable of envisioning and analysing the relationship between the cohesive social pattern language of ...
Mohammed, Gamal T., Mahmoud, Noha
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Walt Whitman in the Middle East: Modernism in Search of Identity and a New Language [PDF]

open access: yesЛитература двух Америк
The article examines Walt Whitman’s influence on Middle Eastern literature, particularly in Arabic and Iranian contexts. The author analyzes how his poetry was received by poets in the region during the 20th century and its impact on the development of ...
Kirill M. Korchagin
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Syncretic Immersion: Tolkien’s Languages As History, Artifacts, And Meta-Narratives

open access: yes, 2020
J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth has been dissected and researched by philologists, medievalists, and literary theorists for decades. Though his work with languages (both historical and invented) has garnered attention over the past few decades, few ...
Zdrojowy, Stewart Raymond
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Letter from the Editors

open access: yesAl-'Usur al-Wusta, 2015
This new issue of al-ʿUṣūr al-Wusṭā (UW) marks a turning point. UW began in 1989 as a newsletter, edited by Sam Gellens, a co-founder with Richard Bulliet of Middle East Medievalists.
Antoine Borrut
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Middle voice marking in Tibeto-Burman

open access: yes, 2010
Middle voice marking is very rarely recognized as such in the grammars written on Tibeto-Burman languages. It is often simply treated as a normal direct reflexive or as an intransitivizer.
LaPolla, Randy J.
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Uniparental Genetic Heritage of Belarusians: Encounter of Rare Middle Eastern Matrilineages with a Central European Mitochondrial DNA Pool

open access: yes, 2013
Ethnic Belarusians make up more than 80% of the nine and half million people inhabiting the Republic of Belarus. Belarusians together with Ukrainians and Russians represent the East Slavic linguistic group, largest both in numbers and territory ...
Baharak Hooshiar Kashani   +109 more
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