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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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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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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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Means to Express Inceptiveness in the Forest Yukaghir Language [PDF]
Philology. Theory & Practice, 2020 The Yukaghir language has a rich word-formation system. The Yukaghir verbs are formed mainly by the suffixal method. Derivational suffixes often transfer the slightest nuances of the verb meaning. The research objective is to identify and describe the basic means to express inceptiveness in the Kolyma dialect of the Yukaghir language (the Forest ...
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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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Új filogenetikai mértékek és alkalmazásuk – Új nézőpontok a magyarok korai története kapcsán [PDF]
, 2017 The early Hungarian history is short of information and almost lack of relevant historical sources. Thus, linguists and archeologists played the most important role in founding the bases of the early Hungarian history. First of all, the linguists
Bernert, Zsolt +4 more
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