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, 2005 Book reviews of the following works: René Bannerjea: Eskimos in Europe: How they got there and what happened to them afterwards. Bíró Family Nyomdaipari és Kereskedelmi Vállalat, London & Budapest, 2004, 470 pp.
Alekseevna Shipulina, Ludmila +3 more
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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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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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Parts of speech systems as a basic typological parameter. [PDF]
, 2004 This paper argues that the word order possibilities of a language are partly determined by the parts-of-speech system of that language. In languages in which lexical items are specialized for certain functionally defined syntactic slots (e.g.
Hengeveld, Kees +2 more
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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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Applied Language Typology:Applying typological insights in professional practice [PDF]
, 2017 In this paper we introduce and outline a new research area, Applied Language Typology (ALT). ALT builds on fundamental typological findings in morphology, syntax and semantics.
Filipovic, Luna
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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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Are Big Gods a big deal in the emergence of big groups? [PDF]
, 2015 In Big Gods, Norenzayan (2013) presents the most comprehensive treatment yet of the Big Gods question. The book is a commendable attempt to synthesize the rapidly growing body of survey and experimental research on prosocial effects of religious primes ...
Atkinson, Quentin D. +2 more
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The Uralic-Yukaghiric connection revisited: Sound Correspondences of Geminate Clusters [PDF]
, 2013 This paper presents and discusses regular correspondences between Uralic geminate items and Yukaghiric with proposed sound change laws and new and some modified older cognate suggestions (twenty-four nouns and eight verbs).
Piispanen, Peter
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