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'Parasite h' in Soqotri Revisited
Journal Asiatique. 2022. Vol. 310. No. 2. P. 189–210.
Since the earliest studies on the Soqotri language (Modern South Arabian branch, Semitic family), it has been observed that a non-etymological h (labeled 'parasite h') often appears before the last vowel of nominal bases in some slots of their paradigm. Until now, the 'parasite h' has been thought to be related to vowel length (etymological or secondary). In the present contribution, the precise conditions for the emergence of the 'parasite h' are established, understood as a combination of phonological and morphological factors (and blurred to a certain degree by the recent process of paradigmatic levelling). None of them supports the traditional hypothesis of the 'parasite h' reflecting vowel length. Rather, the origin of the 'parasite h' lies in breathy phonation characteristic of final syllables ending in sonorants at a certain period in the history of Soqotri.
Moroz A., Издательство Уральского университета, 2026.
The field materials obtained through many years of work by folklore expeditions of RSUH and HSE University in various regions of Russia and the eastern regions of Belarus contain a large number of relatively uniform contexts in which an informant tells a story about events involving the manifestation of a demonological character, the manifestation of ...
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Виноградова Ю. С., Браташ В. С., Zubov V. et al., Вопросы образования 2026 Т. 1 № 3 С. 94–131
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Gippius A., Вопросы языкознания 2026 № 6 С. 7–26
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Karamalak O., Dionysios Zoumpalidis, English Today 2026 P. 1–11
The study explores the use of Anglicisms in the discourse of Russian speaking fashion influencers on YouTube, focusing on the thematic usage and linguistic adaptation of English borrowings to the Russian language. This topic is highly relevant due to the unprecedented popularity of digital social media and influencers who manipulate consumers’ opinions. Research methodology implies ...
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Чэнь Б., Penskaja E., Театр. Живопись. Кино. Музыка 2026 № 1 С. 150–162
Based on a wide range of unpublished archival documents the article presents a comprehensive philological and historical-theatrical analysis of the first Soviet production of the classical Chinese drama The Western Chamber (Wang Shifu, 13th century) — the play The Spilled Cup (Moscow Satire Theatre, 1952, dir. N. V. Petrov and V. N. Pluchek, adaptation by A. P. Globа). ...
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Penskaja E., Arts 2026 Vol. 15 No. 7 P. 172–203
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This paper is about the meeting between Nadezhda Yakovlevna Mandelstam and Sergei Vladimirovich Petrov (1911–1988), a poet, translator, and prose writer.³ He had been through prison and exile; after rehabilitation he taught foreign languages, and from 1960 he led a seminar of Scandinavianists in the literary translation section of the Leningrad branch of the Writers’ ...
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Minov S., Bible and Christian Antiquity 2026 Vol. 8 No. 1 P. 15–59
The article presents the editio princeps, translation, and commentary of a newly discovered parabiblical composition attested thus far only in Syriac: the Story of the Body of John the Baptist. Produced during the Islamic period in the East Syrian milieu, this work offers a detailed account of John’s life and death, as well as the ...
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Minov S., Scrinium: Journal of Patrology and Critical Hagiography 2026 Vol. 22 P. 145–193
The article surveys the most significant expressions of laughter and humor in Syriac Christian culture before the modern period. Starting with a general discussion of the dichotomy between the “high” and “low” cultures of laughter, it proceeds to examine various manifestations of gelastic discourse across different textual corpora: monastic and hagiographic literature from Late Antiquity, ...
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Павел Успенский, Новый мир 2026 № 10 С. 203–216
The article examines several Nikolai Gumilev's poems, which the author explored in discussion with Konstantin Polivanov. The focus is on such texts as "The Clever Devil," "Modernity," "Fragment," "The Giraffe," and others. The article analyzes the key features of the poetics of these texts. ...
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Павел Успенский, Логос 2026 Т. 36 № 3 С. 181–214
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М.: Елисаветинско-Сергиевское просветительское общество, 2026.
Сборник включает материалы XXVIII Елизаветинско-Сергиевских чтений, состоявшихся в Москве 1 ноября 2025 г., посвящённых 180-летию со дня рождения императора Александра III и 120-летию памяти великого князя Сергея Александровича, и завершающих культурную и научно-просветительскую программу выставки «Августейший хозяин Москвы» (организованной Фондом «Елизаветинско-Сергиевское просветительское общество» в Музее Москвы в июле — ноябре 2025 г.).
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Fufaeva I., Русистика 2026 Т. 24 № 3 С. 423–438
Historical consonant alternations in the Russian verbal paradigm (e.g., pustit – pušču) have lost their phonetic motivation, making it relevant to study their productivity in the adoption of new words. Given the active development of the lexicon, investigating how native speakers form the 1st person singular of new verbs allows us to assess the dynamics ...
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Касаткина Т. А., Корбелла К., Сергеева В. С. et al., М.: ИМЛИ РАН, 2025.
В книге ставится задача описать ряд имплицитных авторских теорий творчества, вскрываемых анализом текстов и подтверждаемых эксплицитными высказываниями автора, в том числе такими, которые могут на неискушенный взгляд совсем не относится ни к каким авторским "теориям", высказываниям словно совсем о другом - но вскрывающими сердцевину авторского мировидения и, соответственно, главные принципы его творчества. ...
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Loesov S., Häberl C., Journal of the American Oriental Society. American Oriental Society 2026 Vol. 146 No. 2 P. 325–338
This study examines the tradition of David and Uriah the Hittite, as related by Syriac Orthodox Christians in the upper Mesopotamian region of Ṭur ʕAbdīn in southeastern Türkiye. The narrative, recounted by Nisane Ergün, a native speaker of Ṭuroyo, reflects a localized adaptation of the biblical tale inspired by regional folklore. Unlike the canonical account, ...
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Shteynman M. A., Studia Religiosa Rossica: научный журнал о религии 2024 № 2 С. 156–171
Social reality of the “Game of Thrones” is considered in this
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Kolmogorova A., Ekaterina Yavshitz, Margolina A. et al., Association for Computational Linguistics, 2026.
Automatic classification of aphasia severity presents persistent challenges, particularly for languages with limited clinical speech re sources such as Russian. This paper explores a multimodal approach to severity estimation that combines acoustic and semantic representa tions of pathological speech. Acoustic features are extracted using pretrained Wav2Vec 2.0 models, while semantic information is obtained from the ...
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Zhivlov M., Journal of Language Relationship 2025 No. 23(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. ...
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Bulakh M., al-Daʕrhi A. ʕ., al-Daʕrhi ʕ. G. et al., Brill's Journal of Afroasiatic Languages and Linguistics 2025 Vol. 17 No. 2 P. 244–288
Soqotri is a Semitic language belonging to the Modern South Arabian branch and spoken by the approximately 100,000 inhabitants of the island of Soqotra. As elsewhere in Semitic, Soqotri verbal derivation involves a complex system of the so-called verbal stems. The present contribution deals with morphology and semantics of the stem formally corresponding to Arabic ...
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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. ...
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Savelyev A., Вопросы языкового родства 2025 № 23/1-2 С. 137–167
This article represents the first part of a two-part study devoted to the analysis of Turkic loanwords of the Bulghar-Chuvash type in the Permic languages. In this part, general criteria are proposed for distinguishing Bulgharic borrowings within the corpus of Udmurt and Komi words of Turkic origin. In addition, a “core” layer of Bulghar-Chuvash loanwords ...
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Savelyev A., Российская тюркология 2024 № 40-41 С. 24–52
The paper deals with the Chuvash language materials recorded by the participant of the Great Northern Expedition, academician Gerhard Friedrich Müller. In 1733, Müller documented more than 300 Chuvash lexical items in northern Chuvashia and in the vicinity of Kazan. His materials should be considered the earliest detailed source on the “historical” dialects of Chuvash. It is shown ...
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Belozerova A., Kharitonova A., al-Da‘arhi A. ‘., Folklore 2025 Vol. 136 No. 1 P. 62–83
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Bulakh M., Leiden: Brill, 2024.
The book presents the results of a field research on the verbal system of Soqotri, a little-known language spoken on the island of Soqotra in the Arabian sea and belonging to the Modern South Arabian branch of Semitic. The investigation focuses on the so-called T-stems (marked by the infix -t-), mostly employed as derivational means ...
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