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Advances in formal Slavic linguistics 2021

open access: yes, 2023
Synopsis: Advances in formal Slavic linguistics 2021 offers a selection of articles that were prepared on the basis of talks given at the conference Formal Description of Slavic Languages 14 or at the satellite workshop on secondary imperfectives in Slavic, which were held on June 2–5, 2021, at the University of Leipzig.
Biskup, Petr   +3 more
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“Your Hands, Malenkov, Are Covered in Blood…”: Nikita Khrushchev and the Instrumentalization of the 1949–1952 Leningrad Affair

open access: yesThe Russian Review, Volume 85, Issue 1, Page 37-51, January 2026.
Abstract This article analyzes how the Leningrad Affair, one of the most poorly understood of Joseph Stalin’s purges, was weaponized by Nikita Khrushchev and his comrades‐in‐arms in order to consolidate power during the 1950s and early 1960s. An exposé of how Khrushchev accused four different people of being responsible for the purge over the span of ...
David Brandenberger
wiley   +1 more source

Review of the book Deaf around the World: The impact of language / ed. by Mathur & Napoli [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
(first paragraph) Since its advent half a century ago, the field of sign language linguistics has had close ties to education and the empowerment of deaf communities, a union that is fittingly celebrated by Deaf around the world: The impact of language ...
de Vos, Connie, Palfreyman, Nick
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The Martyrdom of Nadezhda Kurchenko: Soviet Hero Cults and the Spiritual Turn in Late Socialism

open access: yesThe Russian Review, Volume 85, Issue 1, Page 69-87, January 2026.
Abstract This article argues that the spiritual turn in Soviet atheism under Brezhnev provided a meaningful solution to the problems of producing heroes when self‐sacrificing martyrs were losing their appeal. To support this claim, I examine the story of Nadezhda Kurchenko, a nineteen‐year‐old flight attendant killed by two hijackers on an Aeroflot ...
Steven E. Harris
wiley   +1 more source

Jernej Kopitar, Vuk Karadžić and the Brothers Grimm

open access: yesKnjižnica, 2013
The article is focused on Kopitar’s work in linguistics and oral tradition at the age of enlightenment and romanticism and on his contribution to the South Slavic publications of folk narratives and linguistics, especially from the perspective of his ...
Monika Kropej
doaj   +1 more source

Accent retraction and tonogenesis [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Like its predecessor in Zagreb, the conference on Balto-Slavic accentology in Copenhagen was a great success. The enthusiasm of the organizers Adam Hyllested and Thomas Olander proved highly effective in stimulating discussion among the participants ...
Kortlandt, Frederik H. H.
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The Courtroom Sketch: Journalism and Justice in Literaturnaia gazeta

open access: yesThe Russian Review, Volume 85, Issue 1, Page 52-68, January 2026.
Abstract In the decades following Stalin’s death, the newspaper Literaturnaia gazeta shaped Soviet legal culture through the genre of the courtroom sketch (sudebnyi ocherk), a blend of fact‐based reportage, personal memoir, literary narration, and social commentary aimed at the task of working through thorny questions of morality and legality.
Rebecca Reich
wiley   +1 more source

Historia polonistyki w Płowdiwie

open access: yesPostscriptum Polonistyczne, 2020
The article presents the history of Polish language, literature and culture studies at University ‘Paisyi Hilendarski’ in Plovdiv, Bulgaria. The beginnings of Slavic Studies at University of Plovdiv date back to 1978.
Iliana Nowak
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The spread of the Indo-Europeans [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
The publication of Mallory’s book (1989) has rendered much of what I had to say in the present contribution superfluous. The author presents a carefully argued and very well written account of a balanced view on almost every aspect of the problem ...
Kortlandt, Frederik H. H.
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Studies in Slavic Onomastics in Germany: An Overview [PDF]

open access: yesВопросы ономастики, 2019
The article provides an overview of the studies focused on Slavic proper names (specifically, anthroponyms and names of settlements) attested in Germany, in the area between the Baltic Sea and Northern Bavaria.
Karlheinz Hengst
doaj   +1 more source

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