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Syncretism Narrative and the Use of Material Objects within Some Neo-Pentecostal Circles in Contemporary South Africa

open access: yesReligions, 2023
African Pentecostal Christianity presents interconnectedness with African cultures, spiritualities, and religiosity in many ways. Among many other practices that demonstrate this interconnectedness is the use of material objects common within some ...
Themba Shingange
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William E. Walling and the Pragmatist Foundations of Proto‐Western Marxism: A Re‐Evaluation and Critique

open access: yesConstellations, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article reevaluates Walling as a neglected precursor to American Western Marxism, arguing that his 1912–1914 trilogy synthesized Marxist theory of his time and Deweyan pragmatism into a distinct “pragmatist conception of history.” Born into “aristocracy” yet radicalized, Walling's unique trajectory—as a co‐founder of the NAACP and critic ...
Paulo Antunes
wiley   +1 more source

The Surrey Syncretisms Database [PDF]

open access: yes, 2002
The Surrey Syncretism Database encodes information on inflectional syncretism in 30 genetically and geographically diverse languages, representing such morphosyntactic features as case, person, number and gender. Syncretism is defined as when some set of
Corbett, Greville G.   +2 more
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On the Morphology of Toponyms: What Greek Inflectional Paradigms Can Teach us

open access: yesTransactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 1, Page 77-96, March 2025.
Abstract The research is a contribution to the investigation of the grammatical status of toponyms from the point of view of inflectional paradigmatic morphology. By examining data from Standard Modern Greek, as well as select data from its historical development, the analysis reveals that the inflectional morphology of toponyms shows significant ...
Michail I. Marinis
wiley   +1 more source

Pragmatic Syncretism in the Use of Hedges (Based on Russian Thesis Reviews)

open access: yesДискурс, 2023
Introduction. The article deals with pragmatic syncretism and syncretic aspects  of hedges – words and phrases  used to mitigate claims, that is make them vaguer, more tentative  and more uncertain.
E. Yu. Viktorova
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From Nouns and Adjectives to Verbs: Base Effects on the Grammatical Behaviour of Denominal Verbs in Ancient Greek1

open access: yesTransactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper investigates the role of semantic features of noun and adjective bases in determining the grammatical behaviour of Ancient Greek denominal and deadjectival verbs in *‐ye/o‐. The paper adopts a lexicalist framework (Rappaport Hovav & Levin 1998) and examines how the event schema, actionality, telicity and voice of derived verbs are ...
Carolina Marescotti
wiley   +1 more source

Late Antique Allāh: Ancestral Arabian Religion and the Monotheistic Zeitgeist

open access: yesArabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This essay addresses the ongoing scholarly tension between the monotheistic interpretations of late pre‐Islamic Arabian religion, pioneered by G. Hawting and P. Crone, and the traditional accounts of rampant Arabian polytheism found in later Islamic literary sources.
Ahmad Al‐Jallad, Hythem Sidky
wiley   +1 more source

Syncrétisme des savoirs dans la viticulture biodynamique

open access: yesRevue d'anthropologie des connaissances, 2018
In line with previous works about the blurry zone between beliefs and knowledge, this article presents the syncretism between different kinds of knowledge (scientific, farmers, experiential, sensitive, supra sensitive, peri-scientific and esoteric) used ...
Jean Foyer
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The nation‐state, non‐Western empires, and the politics of cultural difference

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract While empires have been central to political theory, they almost always refer to Western forms of imperialism and colonialism to which non‐Western societies are subject. But precolonial empires have ruled much of the world for much of known history. Building on recent International Relations (IR) scholarship, this article reconstructs an ideal
Loubna El Amine
wiley   +1 more source

Motivated Syncretism [PDF]

open access: yes, 1989
The purpose of this paper is to examine the sharing, by two distinctively different functional elements, of a common morphology, and to show how such syncretism is sometimes motivated, and is, in a sense, iconic, since the sharing of a common morphology ...
Hewson, John
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