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Hokan I: A review of comparative studies
Journal of Language Relationship. 2024. No. 1-2(22). P. 162–188.
The article reviews the history of Hokan studies, from the formulation of the Hokan hypothesis by Dixon & Kroeber in 1912–1913 to the present day. Despite more than a hundred years of research, there is yet no consensus on the validity of the Hokan hypothesis. The article argues that one of the reasons for this is the fact that many attempts to compare Hokan languages used a non-standard methodology, in which the study stops at listing the observed sound correspondences, instead of the classical comparative method, which requires a search for complementary distributions and a comprehensive reconstruction of proto-phonology.
Khurshudyan V., Plungian Vladimir, Stepanyants Maxim, Voprosy Jazykoznanija 2026 No. 5 P. 81–98
This study examines the range of strategies used to encode future time reference in Standard EasternArmenian, situating them within the broader context of other Modern Armenian varieties. Illustrative data are drawn from Standard Western Armenian, the Hadrut dialect, and the Hamshen dialect. Adopting a semantic approach, we employ the term “future time reference” to delimit ...
Added: September 27, 2026
Zhivlov M., Journal of Language Relationship 2025 Vol. 23 No. 3-4 P. 344–374
The article continues the series of publications focused on the reassessment of the controversial Hokan hypothesis. In this paper, the traditional comparative method is applied to the reflexes of Proto-Hokan obstruents and glottal stop. The obtained results are compared to Terrence Kaufman’s (1989) reconstruction of Proto-Hokan. ...
Added: September 27, 2026
Loesov S., Häberl C., Бромирская А. С., Journal of Semitic Studies 2026 Vol. 71 No. 2 P. 765–812
This contribution presents three excerpts from a Modern Western Aramaic interview collected in December 2020 in Maaloula, Syria. In the interview, the narrator relates his own biographical details, the legendary life of Thecla, and a personal account of a miraculous healing. The local traditions concerning Thecla feature distinctive motifs, including the miraculous opening of the ...
Added: September 27, 2026
Chermoshentseva K., Человек: образ и сущность. Гуманитарные аспекты 2026 Т. - № 2(66) С. 227–243
The paper focuses on the system of metaphorical images used in modern English-language memoir narratives in prenatal and postnatal discourse. It reveals a set of social representations of pregnancy and childbirth, which act as a modeling factor for the formation of metaphorical images. The purpose of the study is to demonstrate the decisive role of ...
Added: September 22, 2026
Никитенко Д. Ю., RHEMA. РЕМА 2026 № 1 С. 188–207
This study explores a fragment of the accentual system of the Pskov dialect, with data obtained from both a corpus and fieldwork. The focus is on a-stem nouns (1st declension), with the accent types and stress patterns described. The accent types of nouns are presented in tables, while the stress patterns are given in a dictionary format, allowing for a combined approach to describing the dialect’s accentual system. Special attention is paid to stress placement in the accusativus singularis form of a number of words, which in this case ...
Added: September 22, 2026
Воробьёва О. А., Достоевский и мировая культура. Филологический журнал 2026 № 3 С. 230–246
The article examines the history of the creation of the radio play
Babulyenka, directed in 1968 by N.S. Sukhotskaya based on Fyodor Dostoevsky’s novel The Gambler. An analysis of archival materials preserved in the Russian State Archive of Literature and Art (RGALI), including the typescript of the script, Sukhotskaya’s directorial notes, the working notes of F. G. ...
Added: September 20, 2026
Springer, 2026.
Two volumes of the SPECOM 2026 proceedings contain a collection of submitted papers presented at SPECOM 2026, which were thoroughly reviewed by members of the Program Committee and additional reviewers consisting of almost 80 experts in the conference topic areas. In total, 65 regular full papers out of 99 submissions made via the EasyChair electronic ...
Added: September 20, 2026
Пинчукова А. Е., Вестник филологических наук 2026 Т. 6 № 9 С. 176–186
The paper focuses on the study of language phenomena within the interdisciplinary paradigm and the notion of a narrative as one of the most popular ones for investigation in various fields. The purpose of the article is to single out the principles of the communicative competence development in the medical sphere, in which the area ...
Added: September 18, 2026
Tsvetkova M. V., Алентьева А. А., Вестник Российского университета дружбы народов. Серия: Литературоведение, журналистика 2026 № 2 С. 385–397
The purpose of this article is to describe the specifics of Irish playwright Brian Friel’s adaptation of I.S. Turgenev’s novel Fathers and Sons for the theater and the reasons behind Friel’s transformations. The novelty of this study stems from the fact that the reception of Russian classical literature in Ireland in the 20th century has ...
Added: September 17, 2026
Гусев В. Ю., Языки и фольклор коренных народов Сибири 2025 Т. 56 № 4 С. 90–99
В нганасанском языке существует сложная система чередования гласных в суффиксах, которая восходит к противопоставлению переднего и заднего рядов, но в результате многих передвижений гласных лишилась фонетической мотивации. Из всех суффиксов есть один глагольный, который, присоединяясь к корням, выражающим визуально наблюдаемые свойства, способен принимать гласные обоих сингармонических классов, соответственно меняя гласные и всех аффиксов, следующих за ...
Added: September 16, 2026
Гусев В. Ю., Аралова Н. Б., Языки и фольклор коренных народов Сибири 2025 Т. 54 № 2 С. 81–95
Рассматриваются формы сравнительной степени прилагательных, которые возникли в диалектахсеверных тунгусо-маньчжурских языков. Морфологическая сравнительная степень ‒ типологически довольно редкое явление, которое отсутствует, в том числе, в большинстве языков Сибири. Однако во многих диалектах эвенкийского, эвенского и негидальского языков эти формы появились, грамматикализовавшись в континентальных диалектах из селективного показателя, а в быстринском эвенском (Камчатка) ‒ из аттенуатива. ...
Added: September 16, 2026
Гусев В. Ю., Вестник Российского фонда фундаментальных исследований. Гуманитарные и общественные науки 2025 № 3 С. 54–69
В статье рассматриваются модели образования числительных второго десятка (с 11 до 19) в языках Сибири. «Простая» модель, в которой эти числительные образуются соположением слова ‘десять’ и количества единиц («десять один», «десять два» и т.д.), характерна для языков юга Сибири, но проникает также на север восточнее Енисея и на восток Якутии. Вторая модель, включающая слово типа ...
Added: September 16, 2026
Куликова В. А., Гусев А. Д., Токунова П. В., Коммуникативные исследования 2026 Т. 13 № 2 С. 355–369
The article examines the semantic and pragmatic features of cognitive terms functioning in modern Russian-language media texts. The study aims to describe the specifics of using cognitive terminology in contexts aimed at expressing evaluation. The relevance of the work is driven by the active processes of mediatization and determinologization, as a result of which scientific ...
Added: September 14, 2026
Bursov K., Slioussar N., Kokhova M. et al., Brain and Language 2026 Vol. 275 Article 105719
Previous EEG studies demonstrated ample evidence for a major influence of morphological regularity on inflectional processing. However, regularity effects may be attributed to different properties of inflectional classes: to type frequency, to productivity, or to defaultness (assumed only in some models). In many languages, these factors cannot be teased apart, but it is possible in ...
Added: September 13, 2026
Bursov K., Slioussar N., Discourse Processes 2025 Vol. 62 No. 3 P. 155–176
Various coordinating and subordinating conjunctions that connect clauses differ in their structural properties. Such properties seem to influence dis course prominence: references to antecedents from main clauses are more frequent than from subordinate. Structurally, coordinate and subordinate clauses, as well as in-between cases, can be distinguished based on the degree of integration to the host ...
Added: September 13, 2026
Zhivlov M., Journal of Language Relationship 2025 Vol. 23 No. 1-2 P. 51–93
The article continues the series of publications focused on the reassessment of the controversial Hokan hypothesis. In this paper, the traditional comparative method is applied to sound correspondences involving labial and coronal obstruents. The obtained results are compared to Terrence Kaufman’s (1989) reconstruction of Proto-Hokan. ...
Added: October 29, 2025
Балтийский федеральный университет им. Иммануила Канта, 2022.
Представлены доклады участников международной научно- практической конференции «Публично-правовые аспекты юридической компаративистики. V Прокопьевские чтения», состоявшейся в Балтийском федеральном университете им. И. Канта. ...
Added: December 28, 2023
Zhivlov M., В кн.: Hämeenmaalta Jamalille: kirja Tapani Salmiselle.: Helda Open Books, 2022. С. 361–375.
Традиционная классификация уральских языков предполагает последовательное бинарное ветвление сначала на самодийские и финно-угорские языки, затем финно-угорских – на угорские и финно-пермские, затем финно-пермских – на пермские и финно-волжские, и, наконец, финно-волжских – на волжские и финно-саамские. Признание за промежуточными узлами в этом дереве генетического статуса (т.е. наличия соответствующих праязыков) предполагает, что эти праязыки должны были ...
Added: April 8, 2022
Zhivlov M., Etnografia 2019 No. 3 P. 167–180
The article analyzes an areal polysemy ‘earth/year’ in the languages of North America. The distribution of the trait largely coincides with the cultural region of California. Within this area, the polysemy ‘earth/year’ is attested from Molala in the north to Seri in the south. The trait in question is apparently old in Yuman, Chumashan and ...
Added: November 19, 2019
Starostin George, Journal of Language Relationship 2018 Vol. 16 No. 1-2 P. 19–61
This paper is the first one in an intended series of publications on lexicostatistical relations between several linguistic groupings that have all been assigned by Joseph Greenberg to the hypothetical Khoisan macrofamily. Here, we examine the numbers and natures of various matches between the basic lexicon of two such groupings: the closely related cluster of ...
Added: October 22, 2018
Zhivlov M., Journal of Language Relationship 2018 Vol. 16 No. 2 P. 138–161
In this paper I present a detailed analysis of a number of morphological comparisons between the branches of the hypothetical Hokan family. The following areas are considered: 1) subject person/number markers on verbs, as well as possessor person/number markers on nouns, 2) so-called ‘lexical prefixes’ denoting instrument and manner of action on verbs, 3) plural infixes, used with ...
Added: October 2, 2018