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Forty-Nine Years of Aramaic and Semitic Philology at Layard’s Home, Ca’ Cappello

I Libri Di Ca' Foscari, 2018
Semitic Philology has been taught at Ca’ Foscari for almost fifty years in the unique setting of Ca’ Cappello, former Venetian residence of the archaeologist Austen Henry Layard. There, in a most inspiring environment for Semitists, from 1969 to present, seven specialists have taught Semitic languages and culture to generations of students.
exaly   +4 more sources

The Scandalmonger: Julian Tuwim [PDF]

, 2016
The article attempts to argue that Tuwim’s personality and work can be explained by looking into his early childhood and writing. It is definitely the period inadequately explored by critics.
Łuszczykiewicz, Piotr
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Non-Verbal Communication in Ancient Rome: Eyebrow Gestures

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This article analyses the communicative power of eyebrows in ancient Rome within the framework of broader research into gestures from the same period. Our research uses the corpus of Latin literature to describe evidence of gestures in said texts.
M. Antonia Fornés Pallicer, Mercè Puig Rodríguez-Escalona   +1 more
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Arab-Islamic reception of Hellenistic science [PDF]

, 2015
This article is an overview of the Arab-Islamic reception and development of Hellenistic science. It particularly refers to mathematics, physics and astronomy. It focuses on the following topics: 1) Two interpretative models of this reception in the 19th,
Lelli, Giovanna
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Tuwim’s Wedge: 'Survival Strategies' of a Polish-Jewish Poet [PDF]

, 2016
Tuwim’s approach to the “Jewish question” has already been analyzed by Polish and foreign scholars. The article is intended to consider some “survival strategies” of the Polish poet from a slightly different angle.
Tomassucci, Giovanna
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Was Shylock Jewish? [PDF]

, 2018
Discusses the invention of Shylock's Jewishness as a reaction to Sir Henry Irving's popular Victorian ...
Emma Smith
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Requests of Brown by LC Classification: February 2004 [PDF]

, 2004
Requests of Brown from other HELIN libraries - February ...
Souto, Ruth E..
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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
wiley   +1 more source

Introduction [PDF]

, 2016
En 1992, dans un ouvrage célébrant les dix ans d’enrichissement des collections publiques par l’État, le critique et historien d’art Jean-François Chevrier définit le processus d’institutionnalisation de la photographie par rapport à son intégration à l ...
Muñoz Gallarte, Israel
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The Development of Indo‐Iranian Voiced Fricatives

Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 1, Page 97-115, March 2025.
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
wiley   +1 more source