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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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Loanwords and Linguistic Phylogenetics: *pelek̑u‐ ‘axe’ and *(H)a(i̯)g̑‐ ‘goat’1
Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 1, Page 116-136, March 2025.Abstract This paper assesses the role of borrowings in two different approaches to linguistic phylogenetics: Traditional qualitative analyses of lexemes, and quantitative computational analysis of cognacy. It problematises the assumption that loanwords can be excluded altogether from datasets of lexical cognacy.
Simon Poulsen
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Clitics in Old Serbian: What does the text of the Troyan Parable tell us?
Linguistica BrunensiaThe 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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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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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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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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Z polskich drobiazgów słownikowych Tadeusza Szymańskiego: japa
Annales Universitatis Paedagogicae Cracoviensis. Studia Linguistica, 2023 The article deals with the Polish dialectal word japa, which was the subject of interest of T. Szymanski. It presents a point in the discussion concerning the etymology of the mentioned dialectal word. The author has come to the following conclusions: 1)
Adam Fałowski
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‘From the Fields Into the Bars’: The Story of Israel's First Transgender Novel, The Cut (1977)
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In 1977, an Israeli transgender woman, Judy Spotheim, published an autobiographical novel entitled The Cut. It describes the emergence of a trans community in the commercial‐sex areas of Tel Aviv‐Jaffa, hoping to humanise trans women (coccinelles). This article is the first to study the novel and present a biography of Spotheim.
Gil Engelstein, Iris Rachamimov
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SlaviaThe process of disintegration of the unified Proto-Slavic language to individual areas remains ambiguous from the point of view of the development of language levels.
Jiří Rejzek
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