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Verbal aspect and verbal conversion
There are two topics, which the author wishes to discuss based on older and newer analysis. One refers to the structure (or 'architecture') of the verbal aspect in Czech (or other Slavic languages in general).
Sorin Paliga
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This article traces the presence of enslaved children in early medieval narrative sources, especially hagiographies, and looks into the relationship between their historicity and their literary functions. While topoi such as the ransoming or redemption of slaves are acknowledged, this article argues that despite these motifs, narrative sources offer ...
Danny Grabe
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Fire faith: images of fire on old belief icons
The article is devoted to the images of fire in the Russian Old Believer icon painting of the 18th-19th centuries. The author analyzes the main iconographic scenes where this motif appears – “Seen as Fire” Mother of God, Archangel Michael-Voivode ...
Walczak Dorota
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The syntax of existential sentences in Serbian [PDF]
Freeze (1992) argued on the basis of data from several different languages that there is a close relationship between existential sentences (stating the existence of an entity) and locative sentences (stating the location of an entity).
Hartmann, Jutta M., Milicevic, Nataša
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Trust and Income Among Immigrants in Europe
ABSTRACT Social trust, a key cultural trait influencing economic behavior, plays a critical yet understudied role in immigrant integration. This paper examines how trust, both as an individual disposition and as a culturally inherited norm, relates to the economic integration of immigrants in Europe, measured by household income.
Niclas Berggren +2 more
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On the avoidance of voiced sibilant affricates [PDF]
In this paper it is argued that several typologically unrelated languages share the tendency to avoid voiced sibilant affricates. This tendency is explained by appealing to the phonetic properties of the sounds, and in particular to their aerodynamic ...
Zygis, Marzena
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Daily Stress Variability in Two Generations of Survivors of the War in the Former Yugoslavia
ABSTRACT The war in the former Yugoslavia had a profound impact on millions of civilians, leaving long‐lasting psychological consequences. This study aimed to examine stress sensitivity and variability in the daily lives of survivors using a longitudinal design. First‐generation survivors (G1; n = 79), second‐generation survivors born after the war (G2;
Nikola Doubková +8 more
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ANTHROPOCENTRIC CHARACTER OF PHRASEOLOGICAL EUPHEMISMS IN THE SLAVIC LANGUAGES [PDF]
The article is devoted to the consideration of euphemistic phraseological units used to nominate topics significant for native speakers of Slavic languages such as birth and death, the human body, age, physiology, diseases, and human vices, as well as ...
Olena Voytseva, Natalia Demianenko
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ON TEACHING A SECOND SLAVIC LANGUAGE: THE PROBLEM OF SERBO‐CROATIAN [PDF]
Benjamin A. Stolz
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Etnolingvistiniai santykiai priešistorinėje Šiaurės rytų Europoje
ETHNOLINGUISTIC SITUATION IN THE PREHISTORIC NORTH-EAST EUROPESummaryThe hitherto known facts allow to state that in the period between the disintegration of Indo-European community and the expansion of Mongolian-Turkic peoples four groups of langua ...
Leszek Bednarczuk
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