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Risk and its others: Toward an anthropology of “protection” in rural Mongolia
American Anthropologist, Volume 127, Issue 1, Page 69-79, March 2025.Abstract Anthropological studies of risk have long focused on how people respond to and aim to manage potential harm. But despite its long and important genealogy, this article suggests that risk can pose an analytic blind spot that potentially occludes other ways of understanding how people aim to live well in potentially harmful situations.
Joseph Bristley
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Nonverbal Clause Constructions
Language and Linguistics Compass, Volume 19, Issue 2, March/April 2025.ABSTRACT There are about a dozen well‐recognised types of nonverbal clause constructions, but the terminology by which these subtypes are known varies widely. This paper gives an overview of the major types and defines each term carefully, from the perspective of general syntax.
Martin Haspelmath
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Russian Journal of LinguisticsThis study applies the framework of the ecology of language, defined by Einar Haugen as the study of interactions between a language and its environment, to evaluate the reliability of population census data for sociolinguistic analysis.
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A typology of denominal verb formation strategies
Language and Linguistics Compass, Volume 18, Issue 3, May/June 2024.Abstract This article aims to fill a gap in the typological literature by discussing the typology of overt denominal verb formation strategies, that is, morphosyntactic strategies other than conversion/zero‐derivation that are used to derive a verb from a nominal base.
Simone Mattiola, Andrea Sansò
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Distributive Numerals in the Forest Yukaghir Language [PDF]
Philology. Theory & Practice, 2020 The study aims to identify semantic and derivational features of distributive numerals in the Forest Yukaghir language. Scientific novelty of the work lies in the fact that this class of numerals is considered for the first time, using material from the Forest Yukaghir language; their semantics, morphemic structure are determined, new vocabulary is ...
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The language of Siberian Eskimos as recorded by Jan "Eskimo" Welzl
Linguistica Brunensia, 2013 In the present study the numerals of Siberian Eskimos recorded by Jan "Eskimo" Welzl are analyzed in context of the "Arctic" languages, wide-spread from Greenland to the archipelago Novaja Zemľa, concretely Eskaleutan, Chukcho-Koryak, Yukaghir, Yakutic ...
Václav Blažek, Michal Schwarz
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Verbal numeral classifiers in languages of Eastern Eurasia: A typological survey
Open LinguisticsThis article presents a typological survey of verbal numeral classifiers (VNCs) in languages of Eastern Eurasia. As classifiers of occurrence (e.g., to V once, to V twice), VNCs are prevalent in languages of East Asia and Southeast Asia, yet the ...
Honkasalo Sami, Yurayong Chingduang
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Anuário Antropológico, 2018 Para os Yukaghirs da Sibéria, a presa é vista como uma amante que precisa se “entregar” ao caçador, demonstrando desejo sexual por ele. Consequentemente, o caçador busca seduzir a presa transformando seu corpo na imagem dela.
Rane Willerslev
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Additional Turkic and Tungusic Borrowings into Yukaghir III
Journal of Old Turkic Studies, 2019 Continuing on previous research, in this part of a paper series, a total of thirty-nine newly found suggested borrowings from the Turkic, Tungusic and Mongolic (and Russian) languages into the Yukaghir languages and dialects of far northeastern Siberia are presented as loanword etymologies, which is followed by the discussion of a few tentative cases ...
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WYMIERAJĄCY JUKAGIRZY. GENY, ETNICZNOŚĆ I KULTURA W PÓŁNOCNEJ JAKUCJI
Etnografia Polska, 2016 Almost one hundred years ago Waldemar Jochelson, a member of North Pacific Jesup Expedition to Siberia, wrote that Yukaghirs were on the edge of extinction. It seems however that “the edge of extinction” is quite flexible phenomenon, because more than a
Jarosław Derlicki
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