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Деепричастия в диалектах северного наречия удмуртского языка [Adverbial Participles in the Northern Dialect of the Udmurt] [PDF]

open access: yesLinguistica Uralica, 2020
The article explores the form and function of adverbial participles (converbs) in the Northern dialect of Udmurt. So far these forms have found insufficient coverage in scientific literature.
Ludmila Karpova
doaj   +1 more source

C282Y and H63D Mutation Frequencies in a Population from Central Spain

open access: yesDisease Markers, Volume 17, Issue 2, Page 111-114, 2001., 2001
Objectives: To determine the frequency of hereditary hemochromatosis gene mutations, C282Y and H63D, from 125 autochthonous blood donors originating from a Central region of Spain, to provide epidemiological data about HFE gene in the Iberian Peninsula. Methods: DNA extracted from blood samples was analyzed by PCR‐RFLP.
S. Alvarez   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

COVID-19 and the traditional culture of the udmurts

open access: yes, 2021
The article discusses the spring rites and summer prayers of the Eastern (Trans-Kama) Udmurt and the Udmurts’ festivals (Bydzh’yn nunal, Akashka, Paskha, tulys kis’ton, Gurt/-en vös’, and Mör vös’) during the quarantine period related to COVID-19, as ...
Anisimov Nikolai
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Demographic Momentum and Fertility Responses to Pronatalist Policies: The Case of Ethnic Minorities in Russia

open access: yesPopulation, Space and Place, Volume 32, Issue 2, March 2026.
ABSTRACT Russia's Maternal Capital policy initially increased total fertility rates, stimulating much discussion on whether it would result in more births or only earlier births. Effects of that policy upon different ethnic groups within Russia, however, have not received systematic attention.
Konstantin Kazenin   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

From a restricted to full linguistic space: an ‘affirmative action’ strategy for the Udmurt language [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
This study analyzes the long-term reasons why Udmurt occupies a restricted linguistic space in the post-Soviet state – the low status of Udmurt, due to Soviet language and other policies; urbanization; population shifts; myths and stereotypes about ...
Williams, Christopher
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Relative Chaoticity of Natural Languages

open access: yesComplexity, 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
wiley   +1 more source

The Role of Contact in Explaining Linguistic Convergence1

open access: yesTransactions 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
wiley   +1 more source

The concept of a clean and unclean body — an example of Udmurts [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
The article examines the poly-semantic concept of cleanliness in traditional Udmurt practices in respect to religious, ritualized and daily life, focusing on the definite object of a human body.
Tatiana Minniyakhmetova   +1 more
core   +1 more source

The Contemporary Ethno-Confessional Situation Among the Udmurts of Perm Territory [PDF]

open access: yes
The article, which is based on both published sources and field expedition materials from recent decades, sets out to examine the confessional processes taking place in a small area in the south of Perm Territory that is settled by Udmurts, the ...
Chernykh, Aleksandr V.
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Playing the sycophant card: The logic and consequences of professing loyalty to the autocrat

open access: yesAmerican 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
wiley   +1 more source

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