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Towards a Full Description of the Focus System in Tundra Yukaghir [PDF]
Linguistic Discovery, 2012 This paper is meant to be a contribution to a better understanding of the focus system of Tundra Yukaghir. It recapitulates the major findings that were made with respect to the topic discussed and presents a number of new empirical facts some of which ...
Mark Schmalz
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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 +3 more
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A 'Neopotterian Theory of Global Bioethics': Additional Moral Frameworks and Bio-Ethical Criteria for Asia and Europe. [PDF]
Dev World BioethDeveloping World Bioethics, Volume 26, Issue 3, Page 243-246, September 2026.
Stoeklé HC, Hervé C.
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Мiryachit: A Culture-Specific Startle Syndrome in the Saami People. [PDF]
Mov Disord Clin PractAbstract 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 +3 more
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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
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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 +4 more
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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
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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
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Yukaghir morphology in a historical and comparative perspective
, 2020 This book describes the morphological system of modern Yukaghir in a historical perspective, and proposes the first ever systematic reconstruction of the main aspects of Proto‑Yukaghir inflectional morphology and the historical changes it went through ...
Nikolaeva, Irina
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The Uralic-Yukaghir lexical correspondences: genetic inheritance, language contact or chance resemblance? [PDF]
, 2014 The Uralic language family has often been hypothesized to be related to Yukaghir, even though no widely accepted evidence for this theory has been presented so far.
Aikio, Ante
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