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The article presents approbation of reconstruction methods in the Indo-European and Linguistic Comparative studies of different generations. The first methodical procedural applications of reconstruction algorithm are considered, which were constantly ...
О. О. Черхава
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Proto-Indo-European laryngeals and voicing assimilation
In recent Indo-Europeanist literature, it is common to encounter statements concerning phonological feature [voice] and PIE laryngeals in a wide spectrum from explicit commitment to specific feature-segment combinations to reserved observations on ...
Jan Bičovský
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On etymology of Proto-Slavic *soja 'jay'
This paper represents a new attempt at determining the origin of the Proto-Slavic *soja 'jay'. Given the jay's habit of sowing acorns and other large seeds, and, consequently, the abundance of words denoting jay originating from words meaning acorn, oak,
Stefan Stojanović
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Two-Part Personal Names in the Proto-Slavic Language [PDF]
The paper deals with the Proto-Slavic two-part personal names reconstructed in the Etymological Dictionary of Slavic Languages (EDSL), vols. 1–42. Indo-European by their origin, these names retained their use among all Slavs even after the adoption of ...
Svetlana M. Tolstaya
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Identification of the Etymon of Indo-European 'Moist', Sinitic 'South', Tibeto-Burman 'Sun, Day, Sky' and Hungarian nap 'Sun, Day' [PDF]
Using etymological methods, the present study has identified two Sinitic and Germanic shared (Sino-Germanic) etymologies (etyma):【南, 陰】. These two etyma form a rhyme correspondence.
Gao, J.
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The Alpine Lombard (Ticino and Ossola) lexical type ˹bréncul, brén(s)ciol, brìnsc(en), brìnscet˺ &c. ‘juniper’ exhibits an uncommonly conspicuous diatopic variation—57 local forms, together with 30 Alpine Romance and 8 Slavonic comparanda.
Guido Borghi, Vittorio Dell’Aquila
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GENDER RESOLUTION IN CROATIAN, SLAVIC AND PROTO-INDO-EUROPEAN
This paper deals with the origin and development of the gender resolution rule according to which the predicate adjective agrees with the masculine antecedent when there is agreement with a conjunction of subjects at least one of which denotes a male ...
Ranko Matasović
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Development of the anaphoric object: Old church Slavonic in the Indo-European perspective [PDF]
The comparison of various ancient Indo-European languages shows that Proto-Indo-European did not have an anaphoric object in cases of coordination, conjunct participles and in question-answer constructions.
Grković Mejdžor Jasmina
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What to think of Dumezil's tripartite approach of Indo-European cosmologies? [PDF]
The paper analyzes the tripartite approach of Indo-European cosmologies once proposed by Georges Dumezil (1898-1986). The first part describes what Dumezil proposed, and then the second part tries to assess the relevancy and limitations of the tripartite
Fournet, A.
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‘Turkeys Cannot Vote for Christmas’: Why Epistemic Disobedience in an Anti‐Black World Matters
ABSTRACT Never in the history of global coloniality has the idea of epistemic disobedience been as important as in the 21st century. This is not only because the struggle for decolonisation has shifted from physical confrontation between the coloniser and the colonised into a battle of ideas but also because the former has deployed the idea of ...
Morgan Ndlovu
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