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The linguistic study of the Quranic term'masjid' [PDF]

open access: yesتحقیقات علوم قرآن و حدیث, 2010
Comprehending Quran and understanding its profound meanings, like any other meaningful text, at first is in need of encoding its terms which like the rings of a chain , come one after the other to create the text as a whole.
Azartash Azarnush, Mahmood Makvand
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Convergenze tra lingue semitiche e lingue indo-europee. Replica a Sergio Basso

open access: yesLea, 2020
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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A Liminal Orientalism: Turkish Studies by Franz Babinger

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Turkish Studies, 2017
Franz Babinger (1891-1967), a German scholar publishing on Ottoman history, worked outside the mainstream of Oriental philology of his time. While he shared many of the nationalist, patriarchal and gendered views of his generation (he was, however, not ...
Christoph K. Neumann
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“Remembering Semitism” or “On the Prospect of Re-Membering the Semites”

open access: yesReOrient, 2016
Today, a growing number of French Jews embrace the far-right French Front National party, which has a long history of anti-Semitism – how did we get here?
Gil Z. Hochberg
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Uku Masingu luule arhailine kujundisüsteem / The Archaic Figurative System of Uku Masing’s

open access: yesMethis: Studia Humaniora Estonica, 2015
Teesid: Artikkel vaatleb Uku Masingu poeetilist keelekasutust, täpsemalt tema metafoorsete keeleväljendite mõistmise ja moodustamise protsesse. Lähenedes tema luulele kognitiivse keeleteaduse meetoditega, kirjeldatakse, kuidas boreaalne vaimsus toob ...
Külliki Kuusk
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Analyzability and Multiverbal Constructions in Diachrony: The Case of Latin i nunc et Vimp

open access: yesLanguages
This article examines the Latin construction i nunc et Vimp from the perspective of diachronic analyzability. The expression consists of two imperative forms with identical morphological marking—the first a motion verb (V1), the second a lexical verb ...
Laura Cabré Lunas   +1 more
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Non-Verbal Communication in Ancient Rome: Eyebrow Gestures

open access: yesLanguages
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   +1 more
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Loanwords and Linguistic Phylogenetics: *pelek̑u‐ ‘axe’ and *(H)a(i̯)g̑‐ ‘goat’1

open access: yesTransactions 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

The Development of Indo‐Iranian Voiced Fricatives

open access: yesTransactions 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

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