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On the Names of Chinese Tones in Japanese
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Starostin G., , in: Beyond Recorded History: Unlocking the Past Through Contact Linguistics.: Berlin: De Gruyter, 2026. Ch. 5 P. 129–159.
In this paper, I re-examine the controversial issue of lexical similarities between the three major linguistic families that constitute the bulk of the so-called Altaic linguistic area or macrofamily. Applying a simple automated analysis procedure to a newly compiled 400-item wordlist for Proto-Turkic, Proto-Mongolic, and Proto-Tungusic allows to draw the following conclusions: (a) lexical similarities ...
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Berlin: De Gruyter, 2026.
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Leiden: Brill, 2026.
The Handbook of Neo-Aramaic aims to provide an introduction to, and details of the complex world of Neo-Aramaic. This large family of endangered Neo-Semitic languages is (or until recently was spoken by Jewish, Christian and Mandaean minorities in parts of the Middle East. Most members of these communities now live in various diasporas.
Following a series ...
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Budennaya E., Труды института русского языка им. В.В. Виноградова 2024 № 2(40) С. 261–282
The article based on the material form Russian National Corpus discusses the diachronic development of structures with Russian second genitive case in three types of contexts: 1) with nominal quantifiers; 2) with the preposition bez ‘without’; 3) with the preposition do ‘towards’. The data obtained from Russian language are compared with the data from other languages (Finnic and several Turkic), in which there is a tendency to use the partitive ...
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Nichols J., AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL ANTHROPOLOGY 2024 Article e24923
The known languages of the Americas comprise nearly half of the world's language families and a wide range of structural types, a level of diversity that required considerable time to develop. This paper proposes a model of settlement and expansion designed to integrate current linguistic analysis with other prehistoric research on the earliest episodes in ...
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Szeged: Szegedi Tudomanyegyetern/University of Szeged, 2022.
This volume is dedicated to the memory of Eugene Helimski — an eminent linguist, specialist in Uralic, Tungusic, Turkic and Slavic descriptive and comparative linguistics. He was author of several dictionaries, did a great amount of work concerning the history of Uralic languages, published many old archival records, spent much time in the field, collecting data from poorly described ...
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Zhivlov M., В кн.: Славянское и балканское языкознание. Балто-славянская компаративистика. Акцентология. Дальнее родство языков. Выпуск 23.: М.: Институт славяноведения РАН, 2023. С. 66–78.
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Zhivlov M., International Journal of Eurasian Linguistics 2023 Vol. 5 No. 2 P. 267–288
The aim of this paper is to reconstruct the Proto-Nivkh accent system and vocalism with the help of loanword analysis and internal reconstruction. It is shown that the place of the Proto-Nivkh accent depended on vowel height and syllable structure. The paper also argues that the unstressed vowel loss, which led to a radical change in Nivkh phonotactics, ...
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Afanasev I., Lyashevskaya O., Rebrikov Stefan et al., Jazykovedny Casopis 2023 Vol. 74 No. 1 P. 225–233
The need to develop tools for historical and regional variations is becoming more urgent in natural language processing. In this paper, we present two candidate systems for lemmatising historical East Slavic lects (Late Old East Slavic and Middle Russian), as well as modern regional East Slavic lects (Belogornoje and Megra): BERT-based end-to-end pipeline with language-specific ...
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Zhivlov M., Journal of Language Relationship 2023 Vol. 21 No. 1-2 P. 57–68
This paper offers a number of additions and corrections to the corpus of etymologies published in Irina Nikolaeva’s A Historical Dictionary of Yukaghir (De Gruyter, 2006). The focus of the paper is on internal Yukaghir etymology rather than on search for loanwords or long-range cognates. ...
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Savelyev A., В кн.: Хазарский альманах. Том 18Т. 18.: Издательство "Индрик", 2022. С. 171–193.
The paper discusses V. V. Tishin’s attempt at reading East European runic inscriptions known from the territories of the Khazar and Avar Khaganates as representing a Bulghar Turkic variety (Khazarskii Al’manakh, vol. 15). Etymological comparanda for V. V. Tishin’s Bulghar Turkic forms in runic epigraphy are drawn from the Chuvash language as the only living ...
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Afanasev I., Babanov A., , in: Literature, Language and Computing: Russian Contribution.: Springer, 2023.
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Zhivlov M., , in: The Uralic Languages. Second edition.: NY, Abingdon: Routledge, 2023. Ch. 3 P. 117–175.
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Starostin G., Journal of Language Relationship 2022 Vol. 20 No. 1-2 P. 25–70
The paper is the second part of an extensive study aimed at clarifying the internal relationships within the Tuu (Southern Khoisan) linguistic family of South Africa and reconstructing a reasonably accurate Swadesh wordlist for Proto-Tuu. In this section, I first investigate the issue of extensive areal contact between two languages belonging to two different subgroups ...
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Starostin G., Language in Africa 2022 Vol. 3 No. 2 P. 352–367
In this paper, I argue against a recent attempt at re-classifying the small group of Berta languages, spoken in Ethiopia, as being closely related to the geographically adjacent East Jebel group, based on numerous lexical similarities between the two taxa. It is suggested that the best method to determine if these similarities are due to ...
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Loesov S., Journal of Semitic Studies 2022 Vol. 67 No. 1 P. 337–351
Suffix conjugations (SCs) of East and West Semitic may not be traced back to the same verb form in Proto-Semitic. Rather, they evolved separately, by way of a ‘common drift’ in the two branches of Semitic. This is demonstrated, in particular, by a crass contrast, both in forms and diathetic meanings, between the SCs of ...
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Kalinin M., Loesov S., Journal of Semitic Studies 2022 Vol. 67 No. 2 P. 471–516
In Proto-Aramaic, the passive of transitive verbs belonging to all three principal stems—G, D and C—was formed internally. Some verbs of the G- and D-stems also possessed detransitive derivatives. Transitive verbs of the G-, D- and C-stems lost their internal passives early on, and the passives of G- and D-verbs were encoded by their respective ...
Added: October 15, 2022
Zhivlov M., Journal of Language Relationship 2022 Vol. 20 No. 1-2 P. 71–80
This paper presents a number of additions and corrections to the corpus of etymologies published in Irina Nikolaeva’s “A Historical Dictionary of Yukaghir” (De Gruyter, 2006). The focus of the paper is on internal Yukaghir etymology rather than on search for loanwords or long-range cognates. ...
Added: October 14, 2022
Zhivlov M., International Journal of Eurasian Linguistics 2022 Vol. 4 No. 1 P. 41–59
This paper analyses a number of morphophonological alternations in the Yukaghir languages with the aim of the internal reconstruction of pre-Proto-Yukaghir. The main focus is on the simplification of complex consonant clusters arising on morphological boundaries between consonant-final root allomorphs and derivational suffixes. The paper also contains a new reconstruction of Proto-Yukaghir and pre-Proto- Yukaghir ...
Added: October 14, 2022
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 ...
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Tsiwah F., Bastiaanse R., van Rij J. et al., Frontiers in Psychology 2021 Vol. 12 Article 638716
Previous electrophysiological studies that have examined temporal agreement violations in (Indo-European) languages that use grammatical affixes to mark time reference, have found a Left Anterior Negativity (LAN) and/or P600 ERP components, reflecting morpho-syntactic and syntactic processing, respectively. The current study investigates the electrophysiological processing of temporal relations in an African language (Akan) that uses grammatical ...
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