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On What There 'Is': Aristotle and the Aztecs on Being and Existence [PDF]
, 2018 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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Language and Linguistics Compass, Volume 19, Issue 6, November/December 2025.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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Medicina y filosofía en las prácticas chamánicas de María Sabina
Cultura y Droga, 2018 Objetivo. Establecer una relación entre las prácticas chamánicas de María Sabina y la tradición médica y filosófica náhuatl. Metodología. A partir de una combinación del método biográfico y el análisis documental, establecer una serie de inferencias ...
Andrea Pantoja Barco
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Reading Research Quarterly, Volume 60, Issue 3, July/September 2025.Borderlads Biliteracies Abstract ABSTRACT In this theoretical paper, we aim to (re)imagine and (re)conceptualize biliteracy as an anti‐colonial endeavor to destabilize colonial projects that continue to permeate how language and literacy are conceptualized in schools.
Idalia Nuñez +2 more
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Marcación de número en las construcciones numerales atributivas del náhuatl clásico
Cuadernos de Lingüística de El Colegio de MéxicoEn este trabajo me enfoco en los patrones de marcación de número de las construcciones numerales atributivas del náhuatl clásico. En náhuatl clásico se atestiguan dos patrones de marcación de número en este tipo de construcciones: uno concordante, en el ...
Rafael Herrera Jiménez
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El náhuatl en Jalisco, Colima y Michoacán
Anales de Antropología, 2011 Este estudio pretende indicar los lugares donde hay hablantes de náhuatl en los estados de Jalisco, Colima y Michoacán. El trabajo consiste de tres partes: en la primera las situaciones lingüísticas tanto de 1941, como de 1978 son descritas en base a la ...
Leopoldo Valiñas Coalla
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INSECT LIFE AND LETTERS: THE STUDIES OF HANNS HEINZ EWERS AND OTTO AND ROSE HECHT
German Life and Letters, Volume 78, Issue 3, Page 342-363, July 2025.ABSTRACT This article argues that vast histories of war and displacement in the twentieth century are connected to the small and almost unnoticeable lives of insects, and that philology has much to gain from paying attention to insect worlds. We examine two case studies: the work of the German entomologist Otto Hecht and his wife, Rose Caro Hecht, and ...
Alice Christensen, Ina Linge
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Biopiracy and beauty brands? patent trends of cosmetics and skin care companies
The Journal of World Intellectual Property, Volume 28, Issue 2, Page 640-664, July 2025.Abstract Concerns about the fairness and equity of ‘biodiscovery’ research endure despite the creation of legal frameworks designed to regulate access and benefit sharing involving genetic resources and associated traditional knowledge. While some industries that engage in biodiscovery have been the subject of sustained scrutiny, others have received ...
David J. Jefferson, Daniel F. Robinson
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A Simple Explanation for Harmonic Word Order
Cognitive Science, Volume 49, Issue 4, April 2025.Abstract Harmonic word order is a well‐established tendency in natural languages, which has previously been explained as a single ordering rule for all head‐dependent relations. We propose that it can be more parsimoniously explained as an outcome of word‐class frequencies, where the purported “head” is the most frequently instantiated word class in a ...
John Mansfield, Lothar Sebastian Krapp
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