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Relative Chaoticity of Natural Languages
Complexity, Volume 2026, Issue 1, 2026.This paper presents a novel approach to analyzing and grouping natural languages based on the degree of their chaoticity. It clusters 52 languages from 18 language families, according to the value of the entropy–complexity pair, to reveal the chaotic properties of semantic trajectories.
Assel S. Yerbolova +6 more
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Mari of Udmurtia: Factors of Preserving Traditional Culture in Modern Conditions
Научный диалог, 2021 The factors of preservation and intergenerational transmission of the traditional culture of the local group of Mari living in the territory of Udmurtia in a different ethnic environment is examined in the article. The source basis of the article was the
I. L. Pozdeev
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ON THE PROBLEM OF THE CATEGORY OF CLUSIVITY IN THE UDMURT LANGUAGE
Yearbook of Finno-Ugric Studies, 2019 The paper demonstrates the existence of an inclusive-exclusive distinction in the pronominal forms of the Udmurt language which exhibits two forms of plural first person - ми and асьмеос. The pronoun ми ‘we’ is exclusive as it is used when the addressee or addressees are excluded from the set of referents which also contains the speaker, in other words,
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The Role of Contact in Explaining Linguistic Convergence1
Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 3, Page 479-513, November 2025.Abstract In this paper, I explore the question of how linguistic convergence emerges and what the role of contact might be. My case study is the spread of headed relative clauses built around wh‐relative markers in the Standard Average European languages.
Nikolas Gisborne
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Issues of Early Dating of Rectangular Belt Mounts of the Pyany Bor Type
Поволжская археологияA characteristic ("ethnographic") element of the Pyany Bor culture are rectangular belt mounts decorated with two parallel rows of triangular impressions. Despite their "typical" nature, a developed chronology for them currently lacks.
Krasnopeorov Alexander A.
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Финно-угорский мир, 2020 Introduction. Тhe phraseological fund of any language reflects specific features of the cultural and national view of the world, and each phraseological unit contributes to the formation of a common linguistic picture of the world.
Natalia V. Kondratieva +1 more
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Playing the sycophant card: The logic and consequences of professing loyalty to the autocrat
American Journal of Political Science, Volume 69, Issue 3, Page 1180-1195, July 2025.Abstract Despite the centrality of the loyalty–competence framework in research on authoritarian politics, scholars have only focused on material aspects of what elites do in their service to the dictator. Yet nonmaterial aspects such as sycophantically praising the autocrat in speech—a common, everyday practice under authoritarianism, have been ...
Alexander Baturo +2 more
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Семантическая оппозиция керка/корка — горт/гурт в пермских языках [The semantic opposition between керка/корка — горт/гурт in Permic languages]; pp. 266-272 [PDF]
Linguistica Uralica, 2016 Many languages (including Komi) make a clear opposition between the Âfollowing two concepts 1. âhouse as a structure, building, constructionâ and 2. âhouse as a home, the home of a manâ, which is lexically manifested in the existence of separate
Jevgenij Cypanov
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Финно-угорский мир, 2021 Introduction. The article deals with artistic bilingualism which is interpreted as the creative use of two languages in creating works of literature based on precise understanding of the specific features of semantic and pragmatic potential of these ...
Natalia V. Kondratieva, Beatrix Oszkó
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Hydro-landscape vocabulary of the Udmurt language
Finno-Ugric World, 2019 Introduction. Landscape vocabulary refers to the basic vocabulary of any natural language. It nominates both natural geographical and anthropogenic objects that have arisen as a result of human activity. In accordance with the substantial signs (water, land) as part of the landscape vocabulary, it is possible to distinguish two macrosystems, namely ...
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