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Comments on Alan Bomhard, “The Origins of Proto-Indo-European: The Caucasian Substrate Hypothesis”
The Journal of Indo-European Studies. 2019. Vol. 47 . No. 12. P. 149–156.
Nichols J.
The paper’s main claims are that PIE originated in Central Asia, which accounts for its Eurasiatic properties such as resemblant pronouns (Uralic, IE, Kartvelian, Turkic, Mongolic, Tungusic) and originally agglutinating morphology; then it moved by migration to the western steppe, where profound influence of a North Caucasian language or languages (chiefly West Caucasian) reshaped its sound system, aspects of its morphology, and its lexicon. The work is carefully done, with a large and systematic lexical survey, consideration of archaeological evidence, attention to evidence of contacts and migration, and extensive bibliography. PIE does indeed seem to have a curious typological mix of southwestern and north-central Eurasian traits. I have questions, however, about aspects of the linguistic geography, the Caucasian contacts, and the number and type of lexical resemblances.
Strizhkova D., / Институт русской литературы (Пушкинский Дом) РАН. Серия B001 "Репозиторий открытых данных по русской литературе и фольклору". 2026.
В базе данных представлена роспись русскоязычных литературных произведений и отрывков, напечатанных в учебниках по словесности, хрестоматиях, книгах для чтения, сборниках стихотворений и рассказов, выходивших во Франции, Германии, Латвии, Эстонии, Болгарии, Сербии в период первой волны русской эмиграции с 1918 по 1939 гг. Датасет представляет интерес для исследователей школьного литературного канона, эмиграции и детского чтения ...
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Жигунов А. Ю., / Basic Research Programme. Серия HUM "Humanities". 2026. № 1.
The article attempts to describe the features of the educational potential of Russian animation programmes in aspect of the representation of traditional spiritual and moral values. Based on media and semiotic analysis, the method of cultural and historical interpretation, animated Russian projects created from 2000 to the 2025, which were translated on television channels or streaming ...
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Afanasev I., Glazkova A., Lyashevskaya O. et al., , in: Proceedings of the 10th Workshop on Slavic Natural Language Processing (Slavic NLP 2025).: Association for Computational Linguistics, 2025. P. 157–170.
Pre-trained language models have significantly advanced natural language processing (NLP), particularly in analyzing languages with complex morphological structures. This study addresses lemmatization for the Russian language, the errors in which can critically affect the performance of information retrieval, question answering, and other tasks. We present the results of experiments on generative lemmatization using pre-trained language ...
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Тискин Д. Б., Типология морфосинтаксических параметров 2025 Vol. 8 No. 1 P. 112–129
There are several rival theories of fake indexicals, i.e. bound indexicals (prominently pronouns) whose φ-features do not semantically contribute to focus alternatives (e.g. Only Mary did her homework, John didn’t do his). According to Minimal Pronoun theories (such as Kratzer’s or Wurmbrand’s), bound pronouns are Merged without φ-features and acquire them under binding via agreement-like ...
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Тискин Д. Б., Типология морфосинтаксических параметров 2024 Т. 7 № 1 С. 107–123
Fake indexicals (FIs), or bound-variable uses of e.g. 1st - and 2 nd -person pronouns, have been analysed by Bassi (2021) as arising from a post-syntactic process of inspecting the features of the referent. This leads to a peculiar analysis of the syntax and semantics of relative clauses containing FIs. I argue for a more ...
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Боровицкая И. В., Пименов В. Н., Коршунов С. Н. et al., Вопросы атомной науки и техники. Термоядерный синтез 2025 Т. 48 № 3 С. 135–146
Проведено исследование влияния мощного импульсного лазерного излучения (ЛИ), создаваемого в установке ГОС 1001 в режиме модулированной добротности с плотностью мощности потока, равной 1,0·1014 Вт/м2, длительно-стью импульса t = 50 нс, числом импульсов N от 1 до 8 на структуру и микротвёрдость поверхности образцов вольфрама, размещённых в вакуумной камере. Образцы облучены в исходном состоянии и после ...
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Малахов В. С., Симон М. Е., Летняков Д. Э. et al., / SSRN. Серия Social Science Research Network "Social Science Research Network". 2020.
The notion of “political accommodation” applied to the theory and practice of managing cultural diversity could enrich the Russian academic dictionary. Liberal democratic states invented specific mechanisms for political accommodation of cultural differences. Thanks to these mechanisms, the part of the population of a democratic state that is not ready to dissolve into the ethnocultural ...
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Melville A. Y., Каберник В. В., Mironyuk M. et al., / МГИМО МИД России. 2024.
Данный аналитический доклад является одним из результатов исследований в рамках консорциума НИУ ВШЭ и МГИМО. В нем прежде всего раскрыты вопросы концептуализации национальной мощи и сопутствующих категорий и дается обзор прецедентов. Далее рассматриваются вопросы операционализации предлагаемых нами компонентов национальной мощи. В следующих разделах доклада предлагается анализ вопросов методологии, используемой в докладе. На этой основе предложен ...
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Koncha V., Вестник Российского университета дружбы народов. Серия: Политология 2025 No. 3 P. 479–493
This article explores how “we” and “they” function in the construction and contestation of collective identity in the early online discourse of the Black Lives Matter (BLM) and All Lives Matter (ALM) movements during the years 2013–2014. By analyzing the frequency, referents, and collocational patterns of these pronouns in tweets posted during this period, the study ...
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Antipkina I., Ivanov A., Guzhelya D., / Series WP BRP "Basic research program". 2024.
This study presents a methodology for developing a new questionnaire format called explicit continuum scenario scales, in the example of a client focus questionnaire. Elements of the Rasch Guttman scenario scale methodology were used in its development. In three consequent studies, different aspects of the scale functioning were investigated. In Study 1, on the sample ...
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Aitzhanov S., / NRU HSE. Series WP BRP "Linguistics". 2024. No. 116.
This study focuses on examining the role of language as an attribute in the construction of ethnicity within the Korean community in Kazakhstan. The research examines how language functions as an attribute in the categorization and identification processes, and how it interacts with other ethnic attributes such as descent and appearance. Drawing on qualitative methods, ...
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Микаелян А. Л., / NRU Higher School of Economics. Series WP BRP "Literary Studies". 2024. No. 28.
The article presents an attempt to examine Goethe's poem "Reineke Fox" in connection with the discussion between Goethe and Schiller about the nature of epic poetry and the principles of its renewal within the poetics of "Weimar Classicism". Goethe introduced into his interpretation of the medieval story of the Fox a number of innovations at various ...
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Remnev N., Obiedkov S., Rakhilina E. V. et al., / Series Computer Science "arxiv.org". 2023.
Grammatical error correction is one of the fundamental tasks in Natural Language Processing. For the Russian language, most of the spellcheckers available correct typos and other simple errors with high accuracy, but often fail when faced with non-native (L2) writing, since the latter contains errors that are not typical for native speakers. In this paper, ...
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Orekhov B., / Series Computer Science "arxiv.org". 2024.
In this paper, I apply linguistic methods of analysis to non-linguistic data, chess plays, metaphorically equating one with the other and seeking analogies. Chess game notations are also a kind of text, and one can consider the records of moves or positions of pieces as words and statements in a certain language. In this article ...
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Orekhov B., / Series Computer Science "arxiv.org". 2024.
Burrows' Delta was introduced in 2002 and has proven to be an effective tool for author attribution. Despite the fact that it was applied to different languages, they mostly belong to the same grammatical type and use the same graphic principle to convey speech in writing: a phonemic alphabet with word separation using spaces. The question ...
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Orekhov B., / Series Computer Science "arxiv.org". 2024.
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Tsigeman-Gorenko E., Likhanov M., Kalinnikova L. et al., / Series 00 "00". 2024.
Multiple studies show that reading in hard-to-read (dysfluent) fonts can enhance memory and comprehension of learnt material, but it is unclear if this effect extends to second language (L2) learning. This study investigated the impact of dysfluent fonts on L2 text memorisation and comprehension, accounting for learners’ individual differences (gender, L2 anxiety, L2 proficiency and L1 vocabulary size) ...
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Yong H. E., Maksym K., Yusoff M. A. et al., Cells 2023 Vol. 12 No. 7 Article 1093
Fetal growth restriction (FGR) is a leading cause of perinatal morbidity and mortality. Altered placental formation and functional capacity are major contributors to FGR pathogenesis. Relating placental structure to function across the placenta in healthy and FGR pregnancies remains largely unexplored but could improve understanding of placental diseases. We investigated integration of these parameters spatially ...
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Itkin I., Journal of Language Relationship 2022 No. 20/3-4 P. 177–180
In 2022 A. Huard and R. Chen independently established that words meaning ʽspleenʼ and ʽliverʼ can be reliably identified in Tocharian B. These words, spalce (Acc spalc*) ʽspleenʼ and yakär* ʽliverʼ, go back to Indo-European. In this article, we show that the names of both of these organs can be identified with the same degree ...
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Plungian V., Семёнова К. П., Вопросы языкознания 2016 № 5 С. 103–118
В статье обсуждается морфологический статус и происхождение формы творительного падежа множественного числа в древнеармянском склонении. Типологическая уникальность этой формы состоит в том, что она, во-первых, в рамках древнеармянской флективной системы оказывается членимой, представляя собой комбинацию падежного показателя с показателем множественного числа -k‘, и, во-вторых, показатель числа занимает линейную позицию после показателя падежа (а не перед ...
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Plungian V., Зборник Матице српске за славистику 2021 Т. 100 С. 187–203
В статье обсуждается ряд теоретических проблем русского словоизменения с точки зрения технической (на первый взгляд) задачи создания оптимальной таблицы склонения русских имен. Эти проблемы можно разбить на три группы. К первой группе относится иерархия падежных граммем, а также связанный с ней порядок падежей в парадигме. Ко второй группе относится набор типов склонения (словоизменительных типов, возникающих ...
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Kasenov D., , in: Девятнадцатая конференция по типологии и грамматике для молодых исследователей: тезисы докладов.: СПб.: ИЛИ РАН, 2022. P. 188–191.
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Kasenov D., Proceedings of the Workshop on Turkic and Languages in Contact with Turkic 2023 Vol. 7 P. 128–135
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Бадеев А. О., Sergienko A., Типология морфосинтаксических параметров 2022 Vol. 5 No. 2 P. 27–44
This paper discusses an F=PL syncretism in Shughni. In Shughni, intransitive verbs have syncretic forms in past and perfect tenses when agreeing with a feminine singular, feminine plural, or masculine plural subject. The form when agreeing with a masculine singular subject is different. Unlike other languages with such syncretism, the default gender in Shughni is ...
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