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On What There 'Is': Aristotle and the Aztecs on Being and Existence [PDF]
A curious feature of Aztec philosophy is that the basic metaphysical question of the “Western” tradition cannot be formulated in their language, in Nahuatl. This did not, however, prevent the Aztecs from developing an account of 'reality', or whatever it
Purcell, Lynn Sebastian
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TEACHING SPANISH IN THE UNIVERSAL MONARCHY: TOMÁS PINPIN'S GRAMMAR FOR TAGALOGS (1610)
ABSTRACT In 1610, a Tagalog printer named Tomás Pinpin published a Spanish grammar in Tagalog that was intended to help natives avoid errors and misunderstandings in their interactions with Spanish colonizers. This article attempts to clarify the book's genesis and to contextualize it within the global expansion of Spanish. Pinpin exemplifies a pattern
ALAN DURSTON
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ABSTRACT On October 12, 2022, the Biden administration abruptly changed course and announced that Venezuelan refugees would be immediately subject to Title 42—the policy that effectively means that those migrants would be summarily forced to return, or expelled, to Mexico.
Terence Michael Garrett +1 more
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Un acercamiento al léxico del sabor entre los antiguos nahuas
En este artículo se realiza un primer acercamiento clasificatorio al léxico del sabor en el náhuatl clásico del siglo XVI, tratando de contestar ados preguntas: ¿cómo se definían la buena y la mala comida para los antiguos nahuas? ¿Cuáles tenían que ser
Elena Mazzetto
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Principles of event framing : genetic stability in grammar and discourse [PDF]
Ever since Wilhelm von Humboldt’s (1836) pioneering study of Nahuatl, linguists have recurrently recognized that languages differ fundamentally in the syntactic weight they attribute to noun-phrases as the arguments of a verb.
Bickel, Balthasar
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A single hybrid origin of cultivated peanut
SUMMARY This study, the first in a three‐part series, lays the foundation for understanding the origin of the peanut crop (Arachis hypogaea). Its subsequent evolution is explored in the two papers that follow. The evidence that A. hypogaea originated from a single hybridization event between Arachis duranensis and Arachis ipaënsis less than 10 000 ...
Francisco J. de Blas +9 more
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El toltecatl en tres obras de Miguel León-Portilla: Humanismo y nacionalismo
En este ensayo se revisa la interpretación de Miguel León-Portilla con respecto a la concepción náhuatl del arte. En tres de sus obras (La filosofía náhuatl, Los antiguos mexicanos a través de sus crónicas y cantares y Toltecayotl. Aspectos de la cultura
Manuel Alberto Morales Damián +1 more
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Zoopoética y codigofagia en dos fábulas de Esopo en náhuatl. Alejandro Viveros
RESUMEN: Este texto busca desplegar dos modelos conceptuales, la zoopoética y la codigofagia, en las traducciones en náhuatl de las fábulas de Esopo realizadas en el México colonial. Abordaremos este asunto en tres secciones correlativas.
Alejandro Viveros
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ABSTRACT Language diversification and change can be studied using phylogenetic modelling of families over thousands of years, or by close observation of changes unfolding over a few decades at the community level. While the phylogenetic approach uses data from hundreds of languages to make cross‐linguistic generalisations, community‐level studies of ...
John Mansfield
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¿Puede la Philosophia volverse hacia lo ya pensado en náhuatl o maya- quiché?
Este ensayo es un volver a la Filosofía Náhuatl (1956-2006) de Miguel León-Portilla como problema de la traducción del pensamiento y “translatio” colonial - postcolonial de un pensar.Palabras claves: filosofía, náhuatl, maya-quiché, Tlamatini, Calmécac ...
Susan Campos Fonseca
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