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Symmetric and asymmetric alternations in direct object encoding [PDF]
, 2017 This paper examines two different strategies found in direct object encoding on the basis of a sample of 159 languages. In particular, this paper deals with the differences between symmetric (i.e.
Iemmolo, Giorgio
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Review of Strength and Weakness at the Interface: Positional Neutralization in Phonetics and Phonology [PDF]
, 2010 Linguistic
Nevins, Andrew Ira
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Some Details from Eurasian Ethnic History – Altaic Peoples, Chinese Sources and Turania
Migracijske i etničke teme, 2000 In the first part of the paper, the author discusses some details pertaining to the Altaic languages and the location of the Altaic homeland. As to the key question of Altaic theory – i.e.
Emil Heršak
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Reduplication in languages: A case study of languages of China [PDF]
, 2012 International audienceReduplication is widely attested in human languages, especially in the southern hemisphere. This distribution, often complementary with plural markings, is also found in languages spoken in China, which show a correlation between ...
Xu, Dan
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Tungusic historical linguistics and the Buyla (a.k.a. Nagyszentmiklós) inscription [PDF]
, 2015 This paper presents a proper linguistic assessment of the Tungusic reading of the Buyla inscription, as proposed by the late Eugene Helimski (1950–2007) who believed that one of the languages spoken by the European Avars was Tungusic. The main conclusion
Alonso de la Fuente, Jose
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Europe: So Many Languages, So Many Cultures [PDF]
, 2011 The number of different languages in Europe by far exceeds the number of countries. All European countries have national languages, and in nearly all of them there are minority languages as well, whereas all major languages have dialects.
Steinhauer, H. (Hein)
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Prehistoric Bantu-Khoisan language contact [PDF]
, 2017 International ...
Bostoen, Koen +3 more
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Migracijske i etničke teme, 1999 This article consists of free parts. In the first one is a bibliographical survey of the most important literature that appeared in the fields of study of individual five Altaic language groups (Japanese, Korean, Manchu-Tungusic, Mongolic, and Turkic) as
Alexander Vovin
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Lost and found in translation: the case of alliteration [PDF]
, 2014 The paper examines the transmission of alliteration in Estonian and Russian translated verse. The main focus is on the translation of alliterative epic, on the one hand, and more recent literary alliteration, on the other hand.
Lotman, Maria-Kristiina, Lotman, Mihhail
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Refinitization of the Manner converb in Beja (Cushitic) [PDF]
, 2016 version avant révisionInternational audienceThis chapter, after a brief presentation (section 2) of the typological characteristics relevant for a better understanding of the data, focuses on the description and analysis of the Manner converb which ...
Vanhove, Martine
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