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The Ebla Chancery Texts in the Light of Recent Linguistic Research
Altorientalische Forschungen. 2022. Vol. 49. No. 2. P. 183–196.
The article aims at establishing new, more reliable meanings and functions for a number of lexical and semi-grammatical elements of Eblaite (Syrian East Semitic). The so-called “chancery texts”, first published by Pelio Fronzaroli and Amalia Catagnoti as ARET 13, 16 and 18, are in the focus of the analysis. While feasible contextual interpretation is an absolute priority for the present authors, other (notably, comparative) methods are also used when applicable. As a result, a substantial progress in our understanding of these exceedingly difficult documents is expected to be achieved.
Keywords: Ancient Near East
Dezi A., Sesto San Giovanni: Mimesis, 2026.
This book is a metaphysical inquiry into the nature and origin of the manifold. Taking Schelling’s Erlangen lectures of 1820–1821 as its point of departure and hermeneutic horizon, it develops an interpretation of Nomos that transcends its political, juridical, and social determinations. Nomos thereby emerges as the ontological principle of an infinite, variegated multiplicity of ...
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Файзов Д., М.: Новое литературное обозрение, 2026.
Новая книга Д. Файзова пронизана голосами других поэтов. Речь не о расхожей постмодернистской центонности. Это микроинтертекстуальность на уровне конкретных слов и приемов, коллаж осколков чужих голосов, однако таких осколков, которые сохраняют способность отсылать к целому и к тому же вписаны — вклеены на манер аппликации — в узнаваемую интонацию самого поэта. Данил Файзов—поэт, культуртрегер, редактор. ...
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Vinogradov A., Rodionov O., Travaux et Memoires 2026 Vol. 30 No. 2 P. 1075–1089
This article examines the manuscript tradition of Kallistos Angelikoudes’ Hesychastic consolation, a fluid and complex corpus of thirty Logoi preserved primarily in Vat. gr. 736. The authors survey all known witnesses—including the autograph Barb. gr. 420, the Lond. Arund. 520, and several later copies—and analyze their textual relationships, variant readings, and codicological features. They demonstrate ...
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Громенко Е. С., Krongauz M., Антропологический форум 2026 № 70 С. 163–183
The paper describes the construction litso takoy-to natsionalnosti ‘a person of such-and-such an ethnicity’ in Russian with its semantic and pragmatic characteristics. The purpose of the study is to trace the appearance of the construction and analyse how it is used and how it is perceived. Three expressions representing this construction are considered in more ...
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Поцелуев В. А., Ural-Altaic Studies 2026 Vol. 62 No. 3 P. 62–81
In recent years, the researchers working on Uralic languages within Minimalism seem to have built a consensus on how to define the
position of negation in any language with a negative verb. The main and usually the only argument is based on the work [Mitchell 2006].
The argument is as follows: if the negative verb expresses tense, ...
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Государственный университет просвещения, 2026.
Настоящее издание представляет собой коллективный труд, посвящённый юбилеям основателей-руководителей научных школ лингвистического факультета Государственного университета просвещения Максименко Ольги Ивановны, доктора филологических наук, профессора, профессора кафедры теории языка, англистики и прикладной лингвистики, Председателя
диссертационного совета 72.2.020.05 и Хухуни Георгия Теймуразовича, доктора филологических
наук, профессора, профессора кафедры теории языка, англистики и прикладной лингвистики.
Цель издания – обобщение современных достижений в ...
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Zevakhina N., Щипкова А. А., Chinkova A., Voprosy Jazykoznanija 2025 No. 2 P. 105–122
This paper presents experimental evidence for the over-specification (redundant use) of Thai postnominal
numerals in referential communication. The first experiment reveals high rates of over-specification
in oral responses that include Thai postnominal and Russian prenominal numerals tested in a contrastive
multi-number visual context. The second experiment demonstrates lower but still relatively high
rates of over-specification in written responses that ...
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Вилинбахова Е. Л., Zevakhina N., Terra Linguistica 2025 Т. 16 № 3 С. 13–30
Настоящая работа посвящена исследованию употреблений испанского глагола resultar ‘оказываться’ в рамках эвиденциального подхода и подхода возникновения нового знания, представленных в литературе. Согласно первому подходу, глагол resultar передает
инферентивное значение: субъект оценки делает умозаключение на основании наблюдаемых
результатов. Сторонники второго подхода считают основным компонентом семантики глагола
возникновение нового знания, а инферентивное значение объясняется воздействием других
элементов контекста. В работе каждый ...
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Zevakhina N., Пономарева П., Краснощёкова С., Acta linguistica Petropolitana 2025 Vol. 21 No. 2 P. 270–286
The paper reports on an experimental study that reveals a difference
between two types of under-informative utterances with the quantifier “nekotoryj”
(‘some’) in Russian. The experiment was conducted as an inference task based on [Geurts,
Pouscoulous 2009; Val Tiel et al. 2016] with some modifications. The experiment
showed that both types of utterances more often have inference-based interpretations
rather than ...
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Zevakhina N., Voprosy Jazykoznanija 2026 No. 3 P. 54–70
The paper demonstrates that the Russian particle mol exhibits a combination of properties associated
with direct, indirect, and free indirect discourse (FID). First, mol-clauses license shiftable linguistic
items (adverbial indexicals, expressive speech acts, imperatives, evaluative lexical items) not
only in FID, as typically assumed for such linguistic items, but also in indirect discourse. Second,
first- and second-person pronouns in ...
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Sigdel E., Zevakhina N., Krasnoschekova S., Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Language and Literature 2026 Vol. 23 No. 1 P. 217–234
The paper investigates Russian interrogatives and exclamatives with multiple wh-phrases based on two experiments, with additional support of the data from the Russian National Corpus. Since exclamatives are often viewed parallel to interrogatives, it is important to study both types of clauses with multiple wh-phrases alongside and to look for similarities and/or differences in their ...
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Zevakhina N., Studi slavistici 2026 Vol. 23 No. 1 P. 111–126
Using syntactic embeddability diagnostics, the paper demonstrates that Russian wh-exclamatives
with the quotation particle mol and/or with the complementizer čto are embeddable and thus
contributes to the ongoing theoretical and cross-linguistic discussion of embedded wh-exclamatives
and their (in)subordination status. This analysis is applicable to rhetorical questions (with the quotation
particle mol and/or with the complementizer čto), which are traditionally ...
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Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2026.
This collection of papers explores the epic traditions of the ancient Near East and Eastern Mediterranean, bringing together insights from remarkable scholars. Topics range from the cuneiform epic of Erra to Homeric epics and Greco-Roman literature, shedding light on the role of epic texts in shaping collective identities and understanding ancient societies. The validity of ...
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Arkhipov I., Клыгина Ю. А., Широкова М. А., Вестник древней истории 2026 Т. 86 № 1 С. 216–259
Первый русский перевод ARET 13 1, одного из наиболее пространных и необычных документов из Эблы (Сирия, XXIV в. до н.э.) с подробным историко-филологическим комментарием. Главными героям произведения являются правитель Эблы, не названный по имени, и царь соседнего государства Мари по имени Хинна-Даган. Царь и Хинна-Даган посещают дом божеств, обозначенных как Отец и Мать Богов, чтобы спросить ...
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Arkhipov I., Kogan L., Journal of Cuneiform Studies 2026 Vol. 78 P. 3–25
Until recently, Assyriologists have been mostly unaware of the existence of prescriptive cuneiform law as early as in the Early Dynastic period. A deeper inquiry into the so-called chancery texts from Ebla has allowed Massimo Maiocchi and the present authors to independently conclude that compendia of prescriptive legal provisions, in their typology broadly identical to ...
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Arkhipov I., , in: Archives paléo-babyloniennes : 150 ans de publications et d’études (1872-2022).: P.: SEPOA, 2026. P. 387–406.
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Alexandrov B., Multidisciplinary research in archaeology 2025 No. 2 P. 125–148
This article surveys the political organization of Bronze Age Middle Euphrates states, focusing on Emar (Tell Meskene). It analyzes the scholarly debate about the city’s unique, non-linear political evolution. Third-millennium sources attest to rulers with the title EN (“lord”), yet 18th-century B.C. texts reveal a complete absence of kingship, with authority vested in communal assemblies ...
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Alexandrov B., Social Evolution & History 2025 Vol. 24 No. 2 P. 168–173
The article surveys the major approaches towards the typological features of the Middle Euphrates states of the Bronze Age ...
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Arkhipov I., Kogan L., Studia Eblaitica 2025 Vol. 11 P. 65–88
During the past five years, the authors of the present study have been intensely occupied with grammar, lexicon and contents of the Eblaite “chancery texts” – a highly informative, yet seriously underinvestigated group of thematically heterogeneous compositions published as part of ARET 13, 16 and 18. The present article is the second in a series ...
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Arkhipov I., Nouvelles assyriologiques brèves et utilitaires 2025 No. 3 P. 98–99
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Boston, Leiden: Brill, 2025.
This volume presents contributions in honour of Askold Ivantchik on his sixtieth birthday. Since his main academic interest lies in the Black Sea region in ancient times inhabited by diverse cultural groups who also had frequent contacts with people from far beyond, we collected articles on this topic. The volume presents papers analyzing different kinds ...
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Arkhipov I., , in: Greeks and Barbarians Networking on the Shores of the Black Sea and Beyond.ἘΠΙΣΚΎΘΙΣΟΝ: Studies Presented to Askold Ivantchik on his Sixtieth Birthday, May 2, 2025.: Boston, Leiden: Brill, 2025. P. 242–256.
Ancient Mesopotamia is considered to be the birthplace of the river ordeal. Across millennia, the town of Hit on the Middle Euphrates was the centre of this ritual, used for establishing truth by divine intervention both in criminal investigations and civil lawsuits. Mesopotamian river ordeals were documented by a variety of textual genres, including instructions ...
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Arkhipov I., Bennett E., George A. R. et al., Muenster: Zaphon, 2025.
This volume continues the task of publishing the Schøyen Collection’s Old Babylonian archival documents, already begun with two volumes of letters and one volume of school texts. The last few letters—ten late Old Babylonian exemplars mainly from Dūr-Abiešuḫ—are included here alongside twelve other documents from archives deriving from the same site. These add materially to ...
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Arkhipov I., Revue d'Assyriologie et d'Archeologie Orientale 2024 Vol. 118 P. 182–185
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