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Objectivising national identity: The introduction of national registers in the late Habsburg Empire
Nations and Nationalism, Volume 29, Issue 3, Page 975-991, July 2023., 2023 Abstract Western societies over the last few decades have seen an increased interest in questions of group belonging and group identities, including ethno‐national groups. According to essentialising or constructivist paradigms, belonging to a national group is commonly conceptualised in the range of objective versus subjective criteria, where ...
Börries Kuzmany
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Myths of Modernism: Austrian Art after 1918
Art History, Volume 46, Issue 2, Page 256-281, April 2023., 2023 The development of art in Austria after 1918 remains little explored; the main focus of research continues to be fin‐de‐siècle Vienna. Where interwar Austrian modernism is studied at all, interest is mostly limited to the municipal housing sponsored by the Social Democratic council.
Matthew Rampley
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Journal of Regional Science, Volume 62, Issue 5, Page 1512-1558, November 2022., 2022 Abstract Mountain communities face the threat of depopulation, as residents age or move to large cities in the lowland. This issue is pressing for Italy, where a large portion of the territory is mountainous and the overall population is rapidly aging. This paper analyses whether the autonomous status of a region affects the demographic dynamics of its
Nadiia Matsiuk
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Nations and Nationalism, Volume 28, Issue 3, Page 737-759, July 2022., 2022 Abstract Twelve historians and social scientists reflect on Miroslav Hroch's contributions to the field of nationalism studies. There are essays on his pioneering comparative historical studies of ‘small nation’ national movements and his distinction between nationalism and national movements. Other essays focus on concepts such as those of protagonist,
Elisabeth Bakke +11 more
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Brexit and multilingualism in the European Union
Metroeconomica, Volume 73, Issue 2, Page 708-731, May 2022., 2022 Abstract The European Union (EU) spends more than one billion euros per year ensuring translation and interpretation of 24 languages to preserve multilingualism. We examine how this budget should be fairly allocated, taking into account linguistic and economic realities of each member country. Our analysis tries to estimate the value of keeping English
Victor Ginsburgh +1 more
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Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 120, Issue 1, Page 103-127, March 2022., 2022 Abstract It has long been noticed that the Slavic superlative prefix nai‐/naj‐ comprises two components: *na + *i. The former can be identified with the preposition Sl na ‘on(to)’ which developed an intensifying meaning when used as a prefix. The origin of the second component, on the other hand, has not been determined satisfactorily so far.
Florian Wandl
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Nations and Nationalism, Volume 27, Issue 1, Page 174-188, January 2021., 2021 Abstract In the 1848–1867 period, the Habsburg Monarchy was shaken by the first waves of nationalism. Yet in the case of the Habsburg port cities of Fiume/Rijeka and Trieste, contended by several different opponents, Italian and Croatian nationalisms had to face centuries‐long traditions of municipal autonomy.
Mario Maritan
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On archaic oxytonesis in Slovene Ter dialect
Slovene Linguistic Studies, 2023 The paper discusses the oxytonic mokȁ ‘flour’, bradȁ ‘beard’ type accent in the central Prosnid–Porčinj–Subid belt of the Ter dialect based on the material from Janoš Ježovnik‘s 2022 monograph. This type of accent is often interpreted in Slovenian accentology and dialectology as being innovative because the retraction of the short accent from a final ...
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Language and Linguistics Compass, Volume 14, Issue 9, September 2020., 2020 Abstract Language use in mountainous areas often exhibits special social dynamics. This contribution sketches some of the most salient patterns of language use in upland Southeast Asia ,the greater Himalayas, the Caucasus, the Central Andes, the New Guinea highlands, and touches upon the Alps and some highland areas of Africa and North America ...
Matthias Urban
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Jan Baudouin de Courtenay’s concept of mixed languages
Linguistica, 1978 This paper addresses the problem of defining the notion of mixture in languages and dialects as used by Jan Baudouin de Courtenay (1845 - 1929). Focussing on the types of interference which were formulated on the basis of observations of the dialects of
Rado L. Lencek
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