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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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Formation of the Yukaghir National School [PDF]
, 2020 The problems of preserving the language and culture of small ethnic groups are relevant in world society. The Yukaghirs are one of the disappearing ethnic groups due to their small number and long-term adaptation in a multi-ethnic environment that does ...
Petrova, Tatyana N. +4 more
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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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Dramaturgy of N. Kurilov in the Yukagir literature system
RUDN Journal of Studies in Literature and Journalism, 2020 The article discusses the plays of the contemporary author N. Kurilov, which raise a number of problems characteristic of Yukagir literature. Poor knowledge of northern literature, the lack of full-fledged research based on materials of modern authors ...
Daria I. Frolkina
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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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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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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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, 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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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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