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Back to the roots? Critical reflections on the ‘root’ in Finno-Ugric linguistics
Eesti ja Soome-ugri Keeleteaduse Ajakiri, 2017 In Finno-Ugric linguistics, words are usually analyzed in terms of stems and affixes instead of abstract monosyllabic ‘roots’ in the Indo-European sense.
Johanna Laakso
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Semitic Root Incompatibilities and Historical Linguistics [PDF]
Journal of Semitic Studies, 2011 [eng] This paper focuses on root incompatibilities in Proto-Semitic and examines the importance of these laws with regard to historical root reconstruction. As is well known, these rules can only be applied to verbal roots, not to derivative forms and affixed forms.
Elena Vernet
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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]
Archaeoastronomy and Ancient Technologies, 2021 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 Costumbrismo of Conflict in El ideal de un calavera
Open Cultural Studies, 2021 Alberto Blest Gana’s 1863 novel El ideal de un calavera contains frequent and highly detailed cuadros de costumbres depictions of Chile’s unique national culture.
Hanson Cody C.
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The linguistic roots of natural pedagogy [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2015 Natural pedagogy is a human-specific capacity that allows us to acquire cultural information from communication even before the emergence of the first words, encompassing three core elements: (i) a sensitivity to ostensive signals like eye contact that indicate to infants that they are being addressed through communication, (ii) a subsequent ...
Otávio Mattos +3 more
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Some notes on the Semerap dialect of Kerinci and its historical development
Wacana: Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia, 2021 This article investigates the historical development of a hitherto undescribed Kerinci variety, the Semerap dialect, from a comparative Malayic perspective.
Ernanda
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Contrastive analysis of word-formation processes of derivation and inflection in English and Serbian [PDF]
Reči (Beograd), 2022 Language as the primary means of communication has been developing for centuries. Each unit within a language, starting from sounds, words, phrases, and sentences, has been changed and harmonized with norms, reforms, and modern linguistic theories ...
Kukić Marko E.
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The roots of linguistic organization in a new language [PDF]
Interaction Studies. Social Behaviour and Communication in Biological and Artificial Systems, 2008 It is possible for a language to emerge with no direct linguistic history or outside linguistic influence. Al-Sayyid Bedouin Sign Language (ABSL) arose about 70 years ago in a small, insular community with a high incidence of profound prelingual neurosensory deafness.
Mark Aronoff +3 more
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Nasal verbalization of the Kanayatn Dayak Language
Studies in English Language and Education, 2022 This research aims to study the feature of nasals in the Kanayatn Dayak language, spoken in West Kalimantan, Indonesia, and whether they are replacive or additive to particular initial phonemes of the root.
Eusabinus Bunau
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Verbs in Hindi: A semantico-syntactic classification
Journal of Modern Languages, 2017 Hindi, an Indo-Aryan language has the vocabulary of mostly tatsam (borrowed from Sanskrit and kept intact) and tadbhav (derived from Sanskrit and modified) words.
Richa Richa
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