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WORD-FORMATIVE FAMILY WITH THE CHIE ‘COLD’ IN THE LANGUAGE OF FOREST YUKAGHIRS [PDF]

open access: hybridTomsk Journal of Linguistics and Anthropology, 2019
A. E. Prokopyeva
openalex   +2 more sources

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]

open access: yesCogn 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
europepmc   +2 more sources

Мiryachit: A Culture-Specific Startle Syndrome in the Saami People. [PDF]

open access: yesMov Disord Clin Pract
Abstract 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
europepmc   +2 more sources

Distances among Uralic and Other Northern Eurasian Languages [PDF]

open access: yesLinguistica Uralica, 2022
The present occurrence or non-occurrence of 46 structural features is analyzed in language groups ranging from Finnic to Eskimo-Aleut. Normalized measures of commonalities and distances between two languages are developed and used for graphical ...
Rein Taagepera, Ago Künnap
doaj   +1 more source

Code-Switching in Speech of Tundra Yukaghir: Bi- and Multilingual Repetition

open access: yesНаучный диалог, 2023
The linguistic repertoire of the tundra Yukaghir-Polylinguals in Lower Kolyma, Yakutia, with a population of approximately 400 and fewer than 50 speakers, is represented by the Yukaghir, Chukchi, Even, Yakut, and Russian languages.
S. N. Kurilova
doaj   +1 more source

Flocking together : collective animal minds in contemporary fiction [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
The remarkable coordination displayed by animal groups such as an ant colony or a flock of birds in flight is not just a behavioral feat; it reflects a full-fledged form of collective cognition.
Caracciolo, Marco
core   +2 more sources

More‐than‐“bird”

open access: yesAmerican 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
wiley   +1 more source

A NARRATIVE TURN: HUMAN AGENCY IN ROCK CARVINGS AT NÄMFORSEN, NORTHERN SWEDEN

open access: yesOxford 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
wiley   +1 more source

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