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Slabiny velkých typologických databází [PDF]

open access: yesČasopis pro Moderní Filologii
This paper focuses on the Grambank database, a large and relatively new typological database. Like others, Grambank has many advantages (e.g. easy access to a large amount of data), but also weaknesses. Particular attention will be paid to errors related
Vít Ulman
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A tribute to Elizaveta Ubryatova: professional life and personal destiny [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
The article was submitted on 10.06.2015. Translated by Dr. Lilia Gorelova.In Russia, the name of prominent turkologist Elizaveta Ivanovna Ubryatova, at present is known mostly to specialists who study the languages spoken by the Northern peoples of the ...
Shirobokova, N.   +1 more
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The Relationship between Turkic and Mongolian and Errors in Detection of Turkic and Mongolian Loan Words in Persian [PDF]

open access: yesزبان پژوهی, 2019
In the past two centuries, the connection between languages has attracted the attention of researchers. Linguists have classified most world languages as large language families. Among these families, we can mention the Semitic, Indo-European, Dravidian,
Mehdi Rezaei
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Conditions on Iterative Rounding Harmony in Oroqen [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
In this paper, we re-examine the claim that Baiyinna Oroqen, a language of the Tungusic family with a largely predictable distribution of non-high round vowels, requires a non-iterative type of rounding harmony, by demonstrating instead the need for a ...
Dresher, BE, Nevins, A
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Millet agriculture dispersed from Northeast China to the Russian Far East: integrating archaeology, genetics, and linguistics

open access: yes, 2020
Broomcorn and foxtail millets were being cultivated in the West Liao River basin in Northeast China by at least the sixth millennium BCE. However, when and how millet agriculture spread from there to the north and east remains poorly understood. Here, we
Hudson, M.   +4 more
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Proto-Tungusic in time and space [PDF]

open access: yes, 2022
Although there is a general consensus among historical comparative linguists that the Tungusic languages are genealogically related and descend from a common ancestral language, the internal structure of the family, its age, homeland and prehistoric ...
Oskolskaya, S., Robbeets, M.
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A right to remoteness? A missing bridge and articulations of indigeneity along an East Siberian railroad

open access: yesSocial Anthropology, Volume 27, Issue 2, Page 236-252, May 2019., 2019
The Soviet Union and its successor states have been avid supporters of a modernisation paradigm aimed at ‘overcoming remoteness’ and ‘bringing civilisation’ to the periphery and its ‘backward’ indigenous people. The Baikal–Amur Mainline (BAM) railroad, built as a much‐hyped prestige project of late socialism, is a good example of that.
Peter Schweitzer, Olga Povoroznyuk
wiley   +1 more source

Nonstandard Use of the “Reflexive” Affix -sja in Russian Speech of Bilingual Speakers of Northern Siberia and the Russian Far East

open access: yesLanguages, 2019
One of the features of the oral Russian speech of bilingual speakers of the indigenous languages of Russia is the omission/the overuse of the “reflexive” affix -sja (a “middle voice” marker with a wide range of uses including ...
Irina Khomchenkova   +2 more
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Associated motion in Tungusic languages: a case of mixed argument structure [PDF]

open access: yes, 2021
The languages of South America and Australia are known for their morphologically and semantically elaborate systems of Associated Motion (AM). In contrast, the five Tungusic languages discussed here, which belong to the Northern and the Southern branch of the family, have only a single suffix pertaining to this category.
Pakendorf, Brigitte, Stoynova, Natalia
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Nanai argument structure: Russian influence

open access: yesEesti ja Soome-ugri Keeleteaduse Ajakiri, 2013
The paper investigates two classes of verbs in the Naikhin dialect of Nanai (Tungusic; spoken mostly in the Russian Far East) that demonstrate a certain instability with respect to their argument structure in a situation where there is contact with ...
Ksenia Shagal
doaj   +1 more source

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