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A single hybrid origin of cultivated peanut

open access: yesThe Plant Journal, Volume 124, Issue 6, December 2025.
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
wiley   +1 more source

Linguistic Diversification and Rates of Change: Insights From a Diverse Sample of Sociolinguistic Studies

open access: yesLanguage 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
wiley   +1 more source

Dreaming of Borderlands Biliteracies: A Framework for Recognizing the Critical Literacies of Racialized Bilinguals

open access: yesReading 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
wiley   +1 more source

INSECT LIFE AND LETTERS: THE STUDIES OF HANNS HEINZ EWERS AND OTTO AND ROSE HECHT

open access: yesGerman 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
wiley   +1 more source

Nahuatl in the Huasteca Hidalguense : a case study in the sociology of language

open access: yes, 2010
This thesis examines the vitality of Hidalgo Nahuatl (HN) in the communities of Jaltocan, Panacaxtlan, Santa Cruz, Santa Teresa and Zohuala in the Huasteca Hidalguense, Mexico. The research, conducted in Mexico and St.
Stiles, Neville
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Grand Dictionnaire Nahuatl

open access: yes, 2001
International audienceEl Gran Diccionario Náhuatl (G.D.N.) es un sitio web consultable en línea que reúne una veintena de textos de referencia de la lengua náhuatl publicados entre 1547 y 2014.
Thouvenot, Marc   +4 more
core   +1 more source

Biopiracy and beauty brands? patent trends of cosmetics and skin care companies

open access: yesThe 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
wiley   +1 more source

In xochitl, in cuicatl (the flower, the song) : analysis of colonial cultural-social transformations through Nahuatl metaphor

open access: yes, 2014
textI pursue a study of the semantic couplet in xochitl, in cuicatl (the flower, the song) grounded in the examination of Nahuatl written sources in order to explore its cultural and historical trajectory as it was produced and reproduced from the pre ...
Farias, Arnold
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Adjectives in Hueyapan Nahuatl: Do they exist? And if do what kind of adjectives are they?

open access: yesKansas Working Papers in Linguistics, 2011
In the study of 'exotic' languages a question that often surges and sometimes evolves into discussion, is whether they have adjectives, or whether property denominating words, that could be called adjectives, are in fact better grouped with either the ...
Pharao Hansen, Magnus
doaj   +1 more source

A Simple Explanation for Harmonic Word Order

open access: yesCognitive 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
wiley   +1 more source

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