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Loanwords and Linguistic Phylogenetics: *pelek̑u‐ ‘axe’ and *(H)a(i̯)g̑‐ ‘goat’1

Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 1, Page 116-136, March 2025.
Abstract This paper assesses the role of borrowings in two different approaches to linguistic phylogenetics: Traditional qualitative analyses of lexemes, and quantitative computational analysis of cognacy. It problematises the assumption that loanwords can be excluded altogether from datasets of lexical cognacy.
Simon Poulsen
wiley   +1 more source

From Nominalisation to Passive in Old Tibetan: Reconstructing Grammatical Meaning in an Extinct Language1

Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.
Abstract Based on an analysis of the Old Literary Tibetan corpus—a corpus of the oldest documented Tibetic language—the present study provides evidence that literary Tibetan v3 verb stems (commonly termed ‘future’) initially encoded passive voice. New arguments put forward in this article range from Trans‐Himalayan nominal morphology to early Tibetan ...
Joanna Bialek
wiley   +1 more source

A study of Newly-attributed Verses to Rudaki Samarghandi in Halimi’s Dictionary (Sharh Bahr al-Gharraib)

متن شناسی ادب فارسی, 2018
In the vast field of Persian literature, prominent figures such as Mirzayev, Braginsky and Saeed Nafisi, before the other scholars, outshone others in research on the poems of Rudaki, the father of Persian poetry. It was the invaluable efforts made by these magnanimous researchers in collecting Rudaki’s poetries that paved the way for further ...
Zahra Nasirishiraz, Nasrallah Emami, Sajjad Dehghan   +2 more
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Almanca tuhfe / Deutsches Geschenk (1916) oder: Wie schreibt man deutsch mit arabischen Buchstaben? [PDF]

, 2022
Versified dictionaries are bilingual/multilingual glossaries written in verse form to teach essential words in any foreign language. In Islamic culture, versified dictionaries were produced to teach the Arabic language to the young generations of Muslim ...
Averbek, Güler Doğan, Bichlmeier, Harald   +1 more
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Reconstructing Old Chinese *‐ts Using Han‐Time Material

Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.
Abstract Baxter & Sagart (2014b) reconstruct *‐Vt‐s on the basis of Middle Chinese reflexes in ‐jH (from some OC *‐s) coupled with either etymological or graphic connections to words in Middle Chinese ‐t. This approach, while perfectly sound, can suffer from lack of etymological or graphic data, leading to missed reconstructions. Since Old Chinese *‐ts
Julien Baley
wiley   +1 more source

‘Pro‐Germans in the Pulpits’: The Queensland Presbyterian Church and the Great War

Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.
During World War I, Protestant churches in Australia, on the whole, enthusiastically supported the war effort. The Queensland Presbyterian Church was a significant exception. This study analyses discord and tensions among its clergymen about what constituted an appropriate response to the war.
Mark Cryle
wiley   +1 more source

Nisā’ dalam Al-Qur’an: Kajian Morfologi dan Semantik Arab

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Contemporary Islamic law is often criticized as being discriminatory toward women, prompting Muslim feminist movements to demand gender equality and a reconstruction of Quranic interpretation.
M Nurul Huda
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Gendering Late Ottoman Society and Reconstructing Gender in the Women's Press

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article analyses the construction of gender differences in the late Ottoman Empire through women's periodicals, which acted as a key medium in the redefinition of gender roles. It examines how new understandings of gender roles emerged amid rapid transformations in traditional societal structures, particularly in the women’s press.
Tuğba Karaman
wiley   +1 more source

Ḥusniyyāt or Ḥasen Shi‘r as an Independent Genre in Classical Turkish Poetry

İstanbul Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi Türk Dili ve Edebiyatı Dergisi
The word ḥusniyyāt and the phrases uslūb-i ḥasen, naẓm-i ḥasen, shi‘r-i ḥasen and ṭarz-i ḥasen, which are found in verse and prose classical Turkish literature texts, are used in a way that refers to a special literary term that is widely known, apart ...
Bünyamin Taş
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Almighty Shahrashub types and the oldest Vocational Shahrashub [PDF]

Literary Arts, 2016
One type of Persian poetry, which was used as an amusement and rather unknown, is “Shahrashub”. Lexically, “Shahrashub” means a person who excites the people by his/ her beauty and, but in literary terms, it refers to the poems in which the poet ...
Batul Mahdavi, Muhammad Behnamfar, Mostafa Shamsoddini   +2 more
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