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Indo-Europeanization – the seven dimensions in the study of a never-ending process

open access: yesDocumenta Praehistorica, 2007
This contribution focuses on the multifaceted process of Indo-Europeanization which started out, in the Pontic-Caspian region, with the formation of a distinct ethno-cultural epicenter, the Proto-Indo-European complex.
Harald Haarmann
doaj   +1 more source

Supporting Information: Reconstructing the History of Marriage and Residence Strategies in Indo-European-Speaking Societies [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
This file provides additional information on the data and methods used in Fortunato (2011a,b), and discussion of the results of the fossilization of nodes Proto-Indo-Hittite (PIH) and Proto-Indo-European (PIE) for marriage and residence ...
Fortunato, Laura
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Speciation with gene flow

open access: yesPLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Biodiversity is threatened by human activities, with extinction debt accumulating rapidly. Many of these activities change the connectivity of populations, fragmenting existing population systems or bringing previously isolated populations or species into contact.
Zhiqin Long   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Proto-Indo-European long vowels and Balto-Slavic accentuation

open access: yesBaltistica, 2012
The article is a critical review of the evidence regarding the reflexes of Proto-Indo-European long vowels in Baltic and Slavic. It is argued that in Balto-Slavic, inherited long vowels receive circumflex intonation in all positions in the word ...
Tijmen Pronk
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The phonetics of PIE *d, II: the evidence from daughter languages

open access: yesLinguistica Brunensia, 2022
In numerous IE languages, either their synchronic fact or the diachronic processes reveal some level of asymmetry in the area of coronal obstruents, specifically the stops and the nasal, or their reflexes resulting from various phonetic processes as ...
Jan Bičovský
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A note on the Lycian tabahaza

open access: yesStudia Linguistica Universitatis Cracoviensis, 2023
In this short text, I examine the usage of the Lycian word tabahaza, highlight its possible Anatolian cognates, such as the Hittite nēpiš- ‘heaven’ and the Cuneiform Luwian tappaš- ‘id.’, analyze and ...
Marcel Nowakowski
doaj   +1 more source

General linguistics and Indo-European reconstruction [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
There is good reason to be ambivalent about the usefulness of general considerations in linguistic reconstruction. As a heuristic device, a theoretical framework can certainly be helpful, but the negative potential of aprioristic considerations must not ...
Kortlandt, Frederik H. H.
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Footnotes on a Parthian sound change [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
International audienceThe treatment of Proto-Iranian *θw (Proto-Indo-European *tw) is one of the isoglosses distinguishing Middle Persian from Parthian and thus important for Western Iranian dialectology.
Korn, Agnes
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Reconstructing the evolution of Indo-European grammar [PDF]

open access: yes, 2021
This study uses phylogenetic methods adopted from computational biology in order to reconstruct features of Proto-Indo-European morphosyntax. We estimate the probability of the presence of typological features in Proto-Indo-European on the assumption ...
Carling, Gerd, Cathcart, Chundra
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Hair as sensory skin: sensitive bodies, ritual shaving, and the maintenance of bodily boundaries in Hindu Suriname De la pilosité comme peau sensorielle : corps sensibles, rasage rituel et maintien des limites du corps chez les hindous du Surinam

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Hair is an integral part of the skin's interface and has sensory capacity. It actively contributes to processes of bodily materialization and facilitates transactional exchange with other social actors and environments, particularly regarding energies and vibrations that can be perceived as subtle matter.
Sinah Theres Kloß
wiley   +1 more source

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