Circumpolar peoples and their languages: lexical and genomic data suggest ancient Chukotko-Kamchatkan–Nivkh and Yukaghir-Samoyedic connections [PDF]
, 2021 AbstractRelationships between universally recognized language families represent a hotly debated topic in historical linguistics, and the same is true for correlation between signals of genetic and linguistic relatedness. We developed a weighted permutation test and applied it on basic vocabularies for 31 pairs of languages and reconstructed proto ...
George Starostin +8 more
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We Live Surrounded by Pigs: Naming the Space [PDF]
, 2017 The geographical nickname is a complex entity, both geographic, social and linguistic. The study is a sociolinguistic one. It focuses on the relation between language and space in Italy, Germany, Switzerland and Romania.
Ungureanu, Dan
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Word-Formation Specifics of Numerals in the Tundra and Forest Dialects of the Yukaghir Language [PDF]
Philology. Theory & Practice, 2021 The paper aims to reveal word-formation specifics of quantitative and limitative numerals in the Tundra Yukaghir language in comparison with the Forest Yukaghir language. The article describes numerals possessing the features of an intransitive verb. Scientific originality of the study lies in the fact that the researcher analyzes the functioning of ...
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Yukaghir language vocabulary associated with the word Qojl “God”: semantics and formation [PDF]
Sibirskiy filologicheskiy zhurnal, 2020 The relevance of the theme under consideration is determined by the need to study the traditional worldview of the people, the formation and development of their spiritual knowledge. The paper analyzes the semantic content and the formation of the vocabulary of the Yukaghir language, originating from the word Qojl (qojl), identifies the original ...
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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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Disparate Ontologies? Revisiting Descola’s Ontological Schema among Northern Societies [PDF]
, 2023 Disparate Ontologies? Takes a critical look at Philippe Descola’s four-field anthropological model for ontologies among hunter-gatherer societies. Descola’s model juxtaposes animism, totemism, analogism, and naturalism as reflecting different expressions
Geertz, Armin W. +5 more
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THE FOREST YUKAGHIRS’ ETHNIC SELF-IDENTIFICATION IN LANGUAGE AND FOLKLORE [PDF]
Philology. Theory & Practice, 2019 The article considers the problem of the forest Yukaghirs’ ethnic self-identification in language and folklore. This problem is closely associated with such issues as the people’s origin, history, life activity, traditional worldview. It is shown that the forest Yukaghirs’ ethnonyms contain the notions “human”, “people”, “nation”, “clan”, represent ...
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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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Morphological marking of constituent questions: A case for nonlocal amalgamation [PDF]
, 2021 This paper considers the role of nonlocal amalgamation in a system of analyses for typologically diverse languages. Nonlocal amalgamation (Bouma et al. 2001) was suggested in particular to get rid of extraction rules in Pollard and Sag's (1994) analysis ...
Zamaraeva, Olga
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