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Abstract Recent years have seen a growing scholarly interest in youth activism (YA), a phenomenon often viewed as a positive development in response to declining civic and political engagement among young people. However, most of the research focuses on the activists themselves and gives less attention to how YA is perceived by the broader youth ...
Martyna Elerian +2 more
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Old Aramaic and Neo-Aramaic : some reflections on language history [PDF]
Aramaic is not among the oldest Semitic languages in a strictly chronological sense, but among those languages which are still spoken today, it has the longest continuous written tradition.
Jastrow, Otto
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Loanwords and Linguistic Phylogenetics: *pelek̑u‐ ‘axe’ and *(H)a(i̯)g̑‐ ‘goat’1
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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Remarks on an Encyclopaedic Article on Tǝgre
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Saleh M. Idris, Rainer Voigt
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Convergenze tra lingue semitiche e lingue indo-europee. Replica a Sergio Basso
Basso harshly criticizes Giovanni Semerano’s approach to the relations between Indo-European and Semitic languages and argues that on this topic it is better to look at the studies of Keller, Lewy and Lokotosch and those of the more recent scholars of ...
Giuseppe Ieropoli
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South Arabian and Yemeni dialects [PDF]
It has traditionally been assumed that with the Islamic conquests Arabic overwhelmed the original ancient languages of the Peninsula, leaving the language situation in the south-western Arabian Peninsula as one in which dialects of Arabic are tinged, to ...
Watson, JCE
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Le cadi et le sauf-conduit (amān) : les enjeux juridiques de la diplomatie dans l'Orient abbasside [PDF]
Les recherches présentées dans cet article ont pu être menées à bien grâce au soutien des Actions Marie Curie de l'Union Européenne.International audienceThe employment of jurists or qāḍī-s for diplomatic missions, in the first centuries of Islam, is ...
Tillier, Mathieu
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The Development of Indo‐Iranian Voiced Fricatives
Abstract The development of voiced sibilants is a long‐standing puzzle in Indo‐Iranian historical phonology. In Vedic, all voiced sibilants are lost from the system, but the details of this loss are complex and subject to debate. The most intriguing development concerns the word‐final ‐aḥ to ‐o in sandhi.
Gašper Beguš
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Olga Kapeliuk: Selected Papers in Ethio-Semitic and Neo-Aramaic Linguistics
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Alessandro Bausi
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Notes on rabbinic epitaphs: I [PDF]
Jüdische Grabsteinepigraphik: R. Yosef Trani (1568-1639), R. Akiva Eger (d. 1837), R.
Leiman, Shnayer
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