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A researcher at HSE University analysed data on 1,539 doctoral students from 161 Russian universities to identify which features of a thesis topic are associated with academic success and engagement. The most important factor was found to be personal interest in the research topic, which was associated with almost all key aspects of doctoral programme experience—from engaging with the academic supervisor to research activity and confidence about successfully defending the thesis. The findings have been published in Higher Education.

 

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Beyond Recorded History: Unlocking the Past Through Contact Linguistics

Berlin : De Gruyter, 2026.
Under the general editorship: M. Kilani, R. Bjørn
Chapters
Contact or cognate: using onomasiological reconstruction to shed light on the ‘Altaic’ question
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 ...
Added: September 24, 2026
Language: English
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Keywords: Historical Linguisticsareal linguistics
Beyond Recorded History: Unlocking the Past Through Contact Linguistics
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Contact or cognate: using onomasiological reconstruction to shed light on the ‘Altaic’ question
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 ...
Added: September 24, 2026
A Handbook of Neo-Aramaic
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 ...
Added: May 1, 2025
Новые результаты в генеалогической классификации тюркских диалектов («случаи с аффрикатами»)
Aibazova Z., Savelyev A., Mudrak O. et al., Oriental Studies 2020 Т. 13 № 3 С. 696–713
Цель статьи — продемонстрировать некоторые новые результаты, полученные при работе над составлением Диалектологического атласа тюркских языков России. При подготовке атласа авторский коллектив, кроме уже имеющихся опубликованных и архивных источников, использует целенаправленный полевой сбор материала по специально составленным анкетам, ориентированным на известные факты из истории тюркских языков. Материал собирается в виде звуковых файлов, которые затем обрабатываются ...
Added: October 24, 2024
Коньячку бы, да до дому: хронология развития некоторых форм второго родительного падежа
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 ...
Added: October 4, 2024
Founder effects identify languages of the earliest Americans
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 ...
Added: September 26, 2024
Northern Asia as a linguistic area
Nichols J., , in: The Languages and Linguistics of Northern Asia: Typology, Morphosyntax and Socio-historical PerspectivesVol. 10: 2.: Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton, 2024. Ch. 13 P. 739–766.
Added: September 26, 2024
Siberica et Uralica: In memoriam Eugen Helimski
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 ...
Added: June 17, 2024
Генезис индоевропейской оппозиции глухих и звонких придыхательных смычных в свете данных внешнего сравнения
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.
Added: March 28, 2024
Proto-Nivkh Accent System
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, ...
Added: January 17, 2024
The Effect of (Historical) Language Variation on the East Slavic Lects Lemmatisers Performance
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 ...
Added: December 11, 2023
Studies in Yukaghir etymology II
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. ...
Added: November 14, 2023
О булгарском чтении восточноевропейской руники
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 ...
Added: November 1, 2023
The Old Church Slavonic Corpora and Their Use in Language Studies at the University
Afanasev I., Babanov A., , in: Literature, Language and Computing: Russian Contribution.: Springer, 2023.
Added: September 15, 2023
Reconstruction of Proto-Uralic
Zhivlov M., , in: The Uralic Languages. Second edition.: NY, Abingdon: Routledge, 2023. Ch. 3 P. 117–175.
Added: July 22, 2023
The first person prefixes in South Ethio-Semitic
Bulakh M., Journal of African Languages and Linguistics 2023 Vol. 44 No. 1 P. 1–23
South Ethio-Semitic (SES) is a genealogical branch of Ethio-Semitic (ES), a subgroup of Semitic found almost entirely in Ethiopia and Eritrea. The paper considers two features characteristic of several South Ethio-Semitic languages. Firstly, the Prefix Conjugation displays a common 1sg/1pl prefix in various SES languages. Secondly, an innovative 1pl suffix is often employed in the ...
Added: July 7, 2023
Lexicostatistical studies in Khoisan II/2: Towards a more precise phylogeny for the Tuu family
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 ...
Added: October 28, 2022
The value of "triangulation" in determining phylogenetic relationship: on the areal and genetic connections of the Berta languages
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 ...
Added: October 28, 2022
Reflections on the Suffix Conjugations in Semitic
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 ...
Added: October 15, 2022
A History of the Passive in Pre-modern Aramaic: An Outline
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
Studies in Yukaghir etymology I
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
Pre-Proto-Yukaghir Consonant Clusters
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
On the Names of Chinese Tones in Japanese
Zapryagaev A., , in: Japanese/Korean Linguistics Volume 29.: CSLI Publications, 2022. P. 329–338.
Added: June 16, 2022
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