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Slabiny velkých typologických databází [PDF]
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]
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]
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]
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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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]
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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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
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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]
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
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
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