Ancient west Eurasian ancestry in southern and eastern Africa [PDF]
, 2013 The history of southern Africa involved interactions between indigenous hunter-gatherers and a range of populations that moved into the region. Here we use genome-wide genetic data to show that there are at least two admixture events in the history of ...
Berger, Bonnie +7 more
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Word-Initial Geminates in Sardinian
Quaderni di Linguistica e Studi Orientali, 2015 It is reported to be uncommon for a language to display phonological contrasts between simplex and geminate obstruents: Italian and Japanese are among the few that do (Tsujimura 2007; Davis 2011).
Rosangela Lai
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Rule-Based Machine Translation for the Italian–Sardinian Language Pair
The Prague Bulletin of Mathematical Linguistics, 2017 AbstractThis paper describes the process of creation of the first machine translation system from Italian to Sardinian, a Romance language spoken on the island of Sardinia in the Mediterranean. The project was carried out by a team of translators and computational linguists.
Tyers Francis M. +3 more
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Prolegomeni allo studio dei parlanti ereditari di sardo
Quaderni di Linguistica e Studi OrientaliWhen a minority language holds a subordinate position and is neglected or abandoned in family communication, some speakers acquire it imperfectly, resulting in limited proficiency; these individuals are known as heritage speakers.
Rosangela Lai
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Genetic characterization of Sardinia grapevine cultivars by SSR markers analysis
OENO One, 2007 Aim: The objective of the present study is to investigate the molecular characteristics of Sardinian grapevine cultivars to evaluate cases of synonyms and false attributions to protect local agro-biodiversity.
Fabrizio de Mattia +8 more
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The Differential Object Marking of The Arborense Dialect of Sardinian in Language Contact Setting [PDF]
Journal of Language Contact, 2020 This paper focuses on the Arborense Differential Object Marking (dom) system, which in line with the typical Sardinian dom system marks the object noun phrases characterized by a high degree of animacy and specificity with the preposition a. This is why the Sardinian dom is also called prepositional accusative.
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Focalization and Word Order in Old Italo-Romance [PDF]
, 2011 En aquest article es comparen varietats d’italo-romànic modern i antic amb l’objectiu d’entendre els mecanismes que caracteritzen les operacions sintàctiques associades amb l’estructura informativa de la frase, així com identificar els factors que les ...
Cruschina, Silvio
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Sardinian Fiction at End of the Twentieth and Beginning of the Twenty-first Century: an Overview and First Assessment [PDF]
, 2017 L’articolo presenta una panoramica e una prima valutazione della narrativa sarda in italiano – ossia testi scritti da autori sardi per nascita o per formazione e accomunati dalla presenza dell’isola tra i temi o simboli principali – tra la fine del ...
Sulis, G
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Ancient Migratory Events in the Middle East: New Clues from the Y-Chromosome Variation of Modern Iranians [PDF]
, 2012 Knowledge of high resolution Y-chromosome haplogroup diversification within Iran provides important geographic context regarding the spread and compartmentalization of male lineages in the Middle East and southwestern Asia.
A Gusmão +79 more
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La tipologia dei parlanti di lingue di minoranza: tradizionali, ereditari e neo-parlanti
Quaderni di Linguistica e Studi OrientaliMinority languages are typically subjected to constant pressure from the dominant language. This situation often leads to a gradual language shift, resulting in the emergence of different types of minority language speakers.
Rosangela Lai
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