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‘From the Fields Into the Bars’: The Story of Israel's First Transgender Novel, The Cut (1977)

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In 1977, an Israeli transgender woman, Judy Spotheim, published an autobiographical novel entitled The Cut. It describes the emergence of a trans community in the commercial‐sex areas of Tel Aviv‐Jaffa, hoping to humanise trans women (coccinelles). This article is the first to study the novel and present a biography of Spotheim.
Gil Engelstein, Iris Rachamimov
wiley   +1 more source

Adjectival Names of Low Temperature in Slavic Languages

Studia z Filologii Polskiej i Słowiańskiej
The article is devoted to Slavic adjectives which belong to the semantic field of low temperature. The first part presents names from this field with definitions contained in monolingual dictionaries of Slavic languages.
Mariola Jakubowicz
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Herder and Modernity: From Lesser-Taught Languages to Lesser-Taught Cultures

East/West: Journal of Ukrainian Studies, 2017
The typical North American curriculum of a lesser-taught Slavic language implicitly relies on the legacy of Johann Gottfried von Herder’s interpretation that language in and of itself contains national (ethnic) culture.
Martin Votruba
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Areal Clustering of the Slavic Phonetics

Slavia Meridionalis, 2023
Areal Clustering of Slavic Phonetics The article succinctly discusses the most important phonetic features of Slavic languages and indicates their geographical distribution. It briefly presents an area-typological view of the contemporary phonetics of
Irena Sawicka
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Славіст Лукія Гумецька та українська діаспора (за матеріалами особового архівного фонду) (Slavic Linguist Lukiia Humetska and the Ukrainian Diaspora (Based on Her Personal Archive)) [PDF]

, 2015
Зроблено огляд матеріалів особового архівного фонду професора Лукії Лукіянівни Гумецької, які представляють славістичну діяльність знаного українського мовознавця та її зв’язки з діаспорою (The article deals with the personal archivement of well-known ...
Тимочко, М. (М. Tymochko)
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Networking Phylogeny for Indo-European and Austronesian Languages [PDF]

, 2009
Harnessing cognitive abilities of many individuals, a language evolves upon their mutual interactions establishing a persistent social environment to which language is closely attuned. Human history is encoded in the rich sets of linguistic data by means
Dimitri Volchenkov, Filippo Petroni, Maurizio Serva, Philippe Blanchard   +3 more
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Peasants into Muslims: Poverty and conversions to Islam in Ottoman Bosnia

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Whilst economic historians have invested substantial effort into understanding the economic consequences of religion, they have invested less effort into understanding the determinants of religious affiliation. The lack of knowledge about determinants of religious affiliation seems particularly striking in the case of Southeastern Europe ...
Leonard Kukić, Yasin Arslantas
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The contemporary Croatian standard language compared to contemporary East Slavic standard languages (vowel phoneme systems, graphics)

Rasprave Instituta za Hrvatski Jezik i Jezikoslovlje, 2012
This article compares systems of vowel phonemes of contemporary standard Slavic languages – South Slavic Croatian and East Slavic: Russian, Ukrainian and Belarusian, whereby it elaborates the relationship between contemporary vowel phonemes in these ...
Rajisa Trostinska, Milenko Popović
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Slavic-root verbs in CP: loanwords and problematic cases

Lietuvių Kalba, 2019
Although being a comparatively small-volume source, the Catechism of Merkelis Petkevičius (CP) discloses the complexity of analysing Lithuanian loan verbs and Slavic-root hybrids. Conducting research on loanwords from the Slavic languages, the main focus
Anželika Smetonienė
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Transfer in related Slavic languages

Acta Universitatis Lodziensis: Kształcenie Polonistyczne Cudzoziemców, 2020
In the field of teaching Polish as a foreign language, transfer plays a major role. Positive transfer helps the users of closely related Slavic languages learn more quickly, while negative transfer should be closely monitored.
Marta Pančíková, Alexander Horák
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