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Direct Versus Indirect Causation as a Semantic Linguistic Universal: Using a Computational Model of English, Hebrew, Hindi, Japanese, and K'iche' Mayan to Predict Grammaticality Judgments in Balinese. [PDF]

Cogn Sci, 2021
Abstract The aim of this study was to test the claim that languages universally employ morphosyntactic marking to differentiate events of more‐ versus less‐direct causation, preferring to mark them with less‐ and more‐ overt marking, respectively (e.g., Somebody broke the window vs. Somebody MADE the window break; *Somebody cried the boy vs.
Aryawibawa IN, Qomariana Y, Artawa K, Ambridge B.   +3 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Мiryachit: A Culture-Specific Startle Syndrome in the Saami People. [PDF]

Mov Disord Clin Pract
Abstract Background Miryachit is perhaps the most complex and least understood of the culture‐specific startle syndromes that include latah and the jumping Frenchmen of Maine. Objectives We carried out a field study to evaluate startle‐induced paroxysms in the Saami to determine if it is still endemic and, if so, to contrast it with the available ...
Selikhova M, Skiba YB, Rayment D, Lees AJ.   +3 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

More‐than‐“bird”

American Ethnologist, Volume 50, Issue 4, Page 609-621, November 2023., 2023
Abstract Bird language is an emerging practice among nature‐connection enthusiasts in which practitioners strive to comprehend the signals emitted by birds and other nonhuman beings. This practice shares much with contemporary academic interests in more‐than‐human sociality and foregrounds relational ways of knowing.
Ariel Appel, Nurit Bird‐David
wiley   +1 more source

A NARRATIVE TURN: HUMAN AGENCY IN ROCK CARVINGS AT NÄMFORSEN, NORTHERN SWEDEN

Oxford Journal of Archaeology, Volume 42, Issue 4, Page 301-321, November 2023., 2023
Summary The idea to create pictorial narratives seems to have occurred long after humans learned to produce iconic images, that is, depictions based on visual similarity to external objects. In Scandinavia, e.g. in Gärde, Sweden or Stykket and Bøla, Norway, early Mesolithic images (e.g.
Peter Skoglund, Michael Ranta, Tomas Persson, Anna Cabak Rédei, Jan Magne Gjerde   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Displacing (in)formality: endangered species, endangered city, and unstable grounds of comparison

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 28, Issue 2, Page 516-536, June 2022., 2022
Abstract In this article, which is based on ethnographic fieldwork among fog oasis conservationists in Lima, Peru, I show how emergent ethics of conservation become enmeshed with discourses on (in)formality. I demonstrate this by framing contemporary concerns about the endangerment of species endemic to Lima against the background of more long‐running ...
Chakad Ojani
wiley   +1 more source

CONCEPT “SNOW” IN THE LINGUISTIC AND FOLKLORE PICTURE OF THE WORLD OF THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLES OF YAKUTIA

Sovremennye Issledovaniâ Socialʹnyh Problem, 2022
The article undertakes a comparative analysis of the concept “Snow” in the linguistic and folklore worldview of the indigenous peoples of Yakutia. The purpose of the study is to identify the specific features of representation of this concept in the ...
Aitalina A. Kuzmina
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The “Old Testaments” of the peoples. Grundtvig's discernment of life's true order (human first, Christian next) and its relevance for the new eco‐recognition of ancestral bonds in time and space

Dialog, Volume 60, Issue 2, Page 145-154, June 2021., 2021
Abstract The intellectual distinction between Jews and Gentiles, Christians and Pagans is a division between true and false religion. Danish theologian N. F. S. Grundtvig (1783–1872) refuted this binary when he “matchlessly discovered” that pagan simply denotes a natural, pre‐Christian human, created in the image of God.
Jone Salomonsen
wiley   +1 more source

Studies of History, Language and Culture of Yukaghirs of Yakutia in 1960-1980-ies

Научный диалог, 2018
On the basis of the analysis of scientific literature and complex of archival material, including those introduced by the author into scientific circulation for the first time, the author presents a pioneer in the domestic historiography attempt of ...
A. A. Suleymanov
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On Switch-Reference Phenomena in Kolyma Yukaghir [PDF]

, 2001
「環太平洋の言語」成果報告書A2-002ELPR publication series A2 ...
A Eckmann, A. K. Geim, A. Mishchenko, AK Geim, AS Mayorov, B Hunt, C. R. Woods, CR Dean, CR Dean, CR Woods, D Sen, E. E. Vdovin, F. Withers, GH Lee, H Yang, J Martin, J. R. Wallbank, J. S. Tu, JM Xue, JR Wallbank, K. S. Novoselov, K. Watanabe, KS Novoselov, KS Novoselov, KS Novoselov, L Brey, L Britnell, L Britnell, L Britnell, L Britnell, L. Eaves, LA Ponomarenko, LA Ponomarenko, LA Ponomarenko, M Yankowitz, M. J. Zhu, M. T. Greenaway, O. Makarovsky, R. V. Gorbachev, RK Hayden, RM Feenstra, RV Gorbachev, S Neubeck, S. L. Wong, S. V. Morozov, SC de la Barrera, SJ Haigh, T Georgiou, T. M. Fromhold, T. Taniguchi, V. E. Morozov, V. I. Fal'ko, VI Falko, Y-J. Kim, Y. Cao   +54 more
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Syntactic Variation in Diminutive Suffixes: Russian, Kolyma Yukaghir, and Itelmen

Languages, 2017
This article presents a syntactic analysis and comparison of diminutive suffixes in Russian, Kolyma Yukaghir, and Itelmen, three genetically unrelated languages of the Russian Federation. Kolyma Yukaghir and Itelmen are on the verge of extinction.
Olga Steriopolo
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