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Linguistic Evidence Suggests that Xiōng‐nú and Huns Spoke the Same Paleo‐Siberian Language

Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.
Abstract The Xiōng‐nú were a tribal confederation who dominated Inner Asia from the third century BC to the second century AD. Xiōng‐nú descendants later constituted the ethnic core of the European Huns. It has been argued that the Xiōng‐nú spoke an Iranian, Turkic, Mongolic or Yeniseian language, but the linguistic affiliation of the Xiōng‐nú and the ...
Svenja Bonmann, Simon Fries
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The ‘Bilingualism Factor’ in Language Change: The Consequences of Language Contact Within and Across Bilingual Minds1

Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.
Abstract Building on Uriel Weinreich's pioneering (1953) Languages in Contact and on Peter Matthews' insightful commentary on it (2006, this volume) this paper discusses the crucial role of bilingualism, and specifically different types of bilingualism, in understanding whether and how the initial changes at the level of Saussure's parole can ...
Luna Filipović, John A. Hawkins
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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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The Role of Contact in Explaining Linguistic Convergence1

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Abstract In this paper, I explore the question of how linguistic convergence emerges and what the role of contact might be. My case study is the spread of headed relative clauses built around wh‐relative markers in the Standard Average European languages.
Nikolas Gisborne
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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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Predicative Possession in Ukrainian and Intra‐Slavonic Language Contact1

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Abstract Ukrainian has two inherited syntactic forms for possessive have: a transitive one with a lexical have‐verb, and an intransitive, originally locative be‐construction. On the basis of four corpus studies, the article establishes their relative frequency in Middle Ukrainian writing (17th and 18th c.), Modern Ukrainian dialects (20th c.), and ...
Jan Fellerer
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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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Egitura kausatiboak euskaran, eslaboan eta erromantzean: konparaketa tipologiko baterantz

Anuario del Seminario de Filología Vasca "Julio de Urquijo", 2008
This article follows the wake of the author's previous articles regarding framework (typology) and study languages (Slavic, Romance and Basque), although on this occasion, the subject of relative clauses gives way to one of equal fascination ...
Karlos Cid Abasolo
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From Serbo-Croatian to Indo-European [PDF]

, 2010
The history of Slavic accentuation is complex. As a result, the significance of the Slavic accentual evidence is not immediately obvious to the average Indo-Europeanist.
Kortlandt, Frederik H. H.
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