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Translated Romances: the Effect of Cultural Textual Norms on the Communication of Emotions

Journal of Popular Romance Studies, 2011
Romance writers employ a variety of linguistic strategies in order to express the emotions of their characters. Studying the translations of romances allows us to examine how emotions are expressed and described in other languages and cultures, based on ...
Artemis Lamprinou
doaj  

Islam at the monastery: on infinity as subtractive truth L'islam au monastère : de l'infini comme vérité soustractive

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Based on ethnographic research at Rūm Orthodox Christian monasteries in Lebanon, the article studies scenes of Islam at the monastery as they intersect with anxious public debates on, and anthropological theorizations of, sectarianism and ‘Muslim–Christian’ relations in the Mashriq.
Aaron F. Eldridge
wiley   +1 more source

Evaluating the phylogenetic signal of morphosyntax. [PDF]

Pozn Stud Contemp Linguist
Sleeman R, Makri MM, Anagnostopoulou E, Ladoukakis ED, Michelioudakis D, Zioutis C, Pavlidis P.   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Recent progress in studies of the last million years of human physical and behavioural evolution Avancées récentes dans l’étude du dernier million d'années d’évolution physique et éthologique de l'espèce humaine

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
This article presents a synthesis of recent developments in the study of human evolution over the past five years. It begins with an overview of hominin species nomenclature and diversity, followed by an examination of the proposed population bottleneck ∼900,000 years ago.
James Cole, Eleanor M.L. Scerri, Mateja Hajdinjak, Chris Stringer   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Cyclamen persicum Mill. and Leontice leontopetalum L., common vernacular names - and their relation to washing, incense and the unexplained 'Jordan Dome'. [PDF]

J Ethnobiol Ethnomed
Dafni A, Khatib S', Böck B.
europepmc   +1 more source

Loanwords and Linguistic Phylogenetics: *pelek̑u‐ ‘axe’ and *(H)a(i̯)g̑‐ ‘goat’1

Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 1, Page 116-136, March 2025.
Abstract This paper assesses the role of borrowings in two different approaches to linguistic phylogenetics: Traditional qualitative analyses of lexemes, and quantitative computational analysis of cognacy. It problematises the assumption that loanwords can be excluded altogether from datasets of lexical cognacy.
Simon Poulsen
wiley   +1 more source

The slow transformation of the collectivist education of child refugees from Greece in socialist Czechoslovakia. [PDF]

Mem Stud
Králová K, Tohma N, Barton Hronešová J.   +2 more
europepmc   +1 more source

On the Morphology of Toponyms: What Greek Inflectional Paradigms Can Teach us

Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 1, Page 77-96, March 2025.
Abstract The research is a contribution to the investigation of the grammatical status of toponyms from the point of view of inflectional paradigmatic morphology. By examining data from Standard Modern Greek, as well as select data from its historical development, the analysis reveals that the inflectional morphology of toponyms shows significant ...
Michail I. Marinis
wiley   +1 more source

"What Will You Tell Them When They Ask You?" Reflexive Accountability in a Democratic Regime. [PDF]

Polit Theory
Street E.
europepmc   +1 more source

Remnant Case Forms and Patterns of Syncretism in Early West Germanic

Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.
Abstract Early stages of the Old West Germanic languages differ from the other two branches, Gothic and Norse, by showing remnants of a fifth case in a‐ and ō‐stem nouns. The forms in question, which have the ending ‐i or ‐u, are conventionally labelled ‘instrumental’ and cover a range of functions, such as instrument, means, comitative and locative ...
Will Thurlwell
wiley   +1 more source