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Human Evolution in Backwaters, Satellites, and Republics: How Political Change Impacts Paleoanthropology in a Shifting Landscape of Winners and Losers

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Biological Anthropology, Volume 188, Issue 4, December 2025.
ABSTRACT Objectives Paleoanthropology has been slow to adopt postcolonial frameworks to assess the validity of interpretations of human origins. This blind spot is made worse when we consider that postcolonial critique is often inappropriate for post‐communist spaces.
Michelle Glantz, Davorka Radovčić
wiley   +1 more source

A mysterious animal called Al-Wark [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
The paper examines the mysterious term al-wark, which–according to Maḥmūd of Kāşğarī (11th century AD)–denotes a small animal similar to a badger (Turk. borsmuk) in the Xakani language. This animal was treated as a symbol of fatness. It is suggested that
Witczak, Krzysztof Tomasz
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COSMOPOLITAN PHILOLOGY AND SACRED GRAMMAR

open access: yesHistory and Theory, Volume 64, Issue 4, Page 109-126, December 2025.
ABSTRACT Persian developed a formal grammatical tradition comparatively late in its thousand‐year history as a lingua franca. This article takes up the emergence of Persian grammar within the larger trajectory of Persian philology. It explores questions about why and when such a tradition developed in Persian by closely analyzing the earliest formal ...
ALEXANDER JABBARI
wiley   +1 more source

WORD FORMATION PROBLEMS IN THE RESEARCHES ON LINGUISTICS OF PROFESSOR BEKIR CHOBANZADEH

open access: yesUluslararası Türk Lehçe Araştırmaları Dergisi, 2019
One of the problems taking the important place in creativity of Bekir Chobanzadeh conducting extensive researches concerning history and the modern provision of Turkic languages, including Azerbaijan language is the lexico-semantic system of Turkic ...
Pervin EYVAZOV
doaj   +1 more source

Exploring cultural and linguistic diversity in the English‐medium instruction university

open access: yesWorld Englishes, Volume 44, Issue 4, Page 667-685, December 2025.
Abstract This study utilizes questionnaires, interviews, and universities’ web content and strategy documents to investigate the reasons behind the rise of English‐medium instruction in Türkiye's higher education and its implications for intercultural communication.
Talip Gülle   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Epistemic modality and evidentiality in virtual intercultural exchanges between Turkish and Texan users of English

open access: yesWorld Englishes, Volume 44, Issue 4, Page 606-623, December 2025.
Abstract This study reports on data from two 6‐week virtual intercultural exchanges (VIEs) between teachers of multilingual learners in K‐12 schools in Türkiye and the United States. Using the data from these asynchronous VIEs, we focus on Turkish world Englishes speakers’ use of epistemic markers and evidentials.
Melike Uzum   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

A prototype machine translation system between Turkmen and Turkish [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
In this work, we present a prototype system for translation of Turkmen texts into Turkish. Although machine translation (MT) is a very hard task, it is easier to implement a MT system between very close language pairs which have similar syntactic ...
Adali, Esref   +4 more
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Turkic-Mongolian Names of Wild Predatory and Fur-bearing Animals in the Mongolian Languages

open access: yesOriental Studies, 2018
The article reviews a group of terms for wild prey and fur-bearing animal nominalization with the aim to identify their Turkic roots. The investigation is based on the materials of the Khalkha-Mongolian, Buryat, Kalmyk and Old Mongolian languages.
V. Rassadin, S. Trofimova
doaj  

Japanese aru, iru, oru 'to be' : [oru ist bin aru] [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Among the Japanese expressions for 'to be', the verbs aru (unmarked), iru (animate subject) and oru (humble variant of iru) are of special interest (cf. Martin 1975: 194f. for a descriptive account). We may look for cognates of these verbs in the (other)
Kortlandt, Frederik H. H.
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On the historical background of habitive and izafet constructions in Hungarian [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
This paper deals with two ways of expressing possessive relationships, their morphological make-up and the possible circumstances of their emergence. One of these is the habitive construction (`X has Y'), whereas the other is the attributive possessive ...
Honti, László
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