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On the Morphology of Toponyms: What Greek Inflectional Paradigms Can Teach us

Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 1, Page 77-96, March 2025.
Abstract The research is a contribution to the investigation of the grammatical status of toponyms from the point of view of inflectional paradigmatic morphology. By examining data from Standard Modern Greek, as well as select data from its historical development, the analysis reveals that the inflectional morphology of toponyms shows significant ...
Michail I. Marinis
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Early dialectal diversity in South Slavic I [PDF]

, 2010
The large majority of the isoglosses which can be established in the South Slavic dialectal area date from the time of the disintegration of Common Slavic and from more recent periods (e.g., Ivi´c 1958: 25ff).
Kortlandt, Frederik H. H.
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Are There Traces of a Finno-Ugric Substratum in Proto-Slavic?

Slavistična Revija, 2020
The author discusses the problem of possible Uralic borrowings in Proto-Slavic, hypoth­esizing that the Proto-Slavs in their homeland (presumably located in Eastern Europe) were neighbours of some unknown Finno-Ugric tribes.
Krzysztof Tomasz Witczak
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The Gender of Heteroclites1

Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.
Abstract Few have asked what happens to gender when a noun is heteroclitic – when its inflection draws on more than one inflection class. While heteroclisis has moved from being treated as a marginal irregularity to a theoretically revealing phenomenon, its implications for gender assignment remain largely unexplored.
Greville G. Corbett
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Rise and development of Slavic accentual paradigms [PDF]

, 2010
It appears that the complexity of Slavic historical accentology is prohibitive for most non-specialists in the field. It may therefore be useful to approach the subject from a number of different angles in order to render it more accessible to a wider ...
Kortlandt, Frederik H. H.
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Clitics in Old Serbian: What does the text of the Troyan Parable tell us?

Linguistica Brunensia
The present paper examines the diachronic development of Serbian clitics. The investigation of clitics is of special interest in Slavic languages: despite the fact that these languages display free worder, the use of clitics is subject to strict rules ...
Lilla Nikolin Dukai
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‘Enthusiasts’ and ‘Fanatics’: The Decembrists as a Case Study in French Influence on Russian Culture, Emotions and Thought

History, EarlyView.
Abstract Participants in Russia's 1825 Decembrist uprising against the Tsarist regime were, quite literally, a case study in French cultural influence upon Russia. This is particularly true as it relates to Russia's emotional cultures. Although this has not, traditionally, been the primary focus of historical analysis of this event (in Soviet or ...
ADAM COKER
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Balto-Slavic accentual mobility [PDF]

, 2010
Thomas Olander’s dissertation (2006) offers a useful introduction to the history of Balto-Slavic accentuation supported by an impressive command of the scholarly ...
Kortlandt, Frederik H. H.
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On the insertion of non-etymological dental stops in Croatian

Rasprave Instituta za Hrvatski Jezik i Jezikoslovlje, 2015
The paper deals with the insertion of the dental stops t and d in the history of the Croatian language. During the Proto-Slavic period, the non-etymological dental consonant t was inserted between s and r - this innovation can be defined as Proto-Slavic
Pavao Krmpotić
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Altertümliche Termini der rumänischen Viehzucht slavischer Herkunft

Studia z Filologii Polskiej i Słowiańskiej, 2019
Archaic Animal Husbandry Terminology of Slavic Origin in the Romanian Language This article analyses a number of Romanian dialectal words and expressions associated with: (1) coat colours of farm animals, like ‘black’, ‘pied’, ‘spotted white’, ‘piebald’
Corinna Leschber
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