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Cognate maximization versus cognate minimization: in search of a "golden middle" for Altaic etymology
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Szeged: Szegedi Tudomanyegyetern/University of Szeged, 2022.
Дмитрий Калугин, Наталья Мовнина, Slavic Literatures (ранее - Russian Literature) 2024 Т. 149 № 149 С. 33–50
The topic of this article is the pair of concepts “enjoyment-suffering”, which, as
linguistic intuition shows, correlates with a large quantity of lexemes: enjoyment is
synonymous with pleasure, bliss; while suffering is synonymous with pain, torment,
passion. Enjoyment-suffering is at times antithetical, and at other times mutually complementary, creating unexpected combinations. The fundamental hypothesis of this
article is that ...
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Kassian A., Starostin G., Zhivlov M. et al., Journal of Historical Linguistics 2025 Vol. 15 No. 3 P. 463–481
Relationships between universally recognized language families represent a hotly debated topic in historical linguistics, and the same is true for correlation between signals of genetic and linguistic relatedness. We developed a weighted permutation test which represents the classical permutation tests with weights introduced for individual Swadesh concepts according to their typological stability. Further, the obtained ...
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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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М.: Институт славяноведения РАН, 2023.
The current volume of the series “Slavic and Balkan Linguistics” contains a monograph titled “Baltoslavic Comparative Studies. Accentology. Distant Language Relations. Vladimir A. Dybo in memoriam” by an international team of authors. The collective monograph's sections are dedicated to discussing the latest research results in the field of Balto‑Slavic accentology and morphology against the Indo‑European ...
Added: March 28, 2024
Kalugin D., Маслов Б., Новое литературное обозрение 2023 № 6(184) С. 301–316
The modern Russian concept of chelovechnost’ (humanity) evolved under the influence of the French humanité, which — similarly to its analogues in other languages — derives from the Latin humanitas. The article touches on a set of methodological questions: does the concept of humanity represent merely a construct of cultural history? is its alienness to ...
Added: March 13, 2024
Starostin G., Journal of Language Relationship 2023 Vol. 21 No. 1-2 P. 110–116
In this response to Alexander Militarev’s paper on the Afroasiatic (Afrasian) affiliation of Hadza, I attempt to identify the major theoretical issues with his lexicostatistical analysis of the similarities between Hadza and the various branches of the Afroasiatic family, explaining why this analysis cannot be accepted as conclusive, and suggesting some steps that could be ...
Added: November 15, 2023
Robbeets M., Bouckaert R., Gruntov I. et al., Nature 2021 Vol. 599 No. 7886 P. 616–621
The origin and early dispersal of speakers of Transeurasian languages—that is, Japanese, Korean, Tungusic, Mongolic and Turkic—is among the most disputed issues of Eurasian population history. A key problem is the relationship between linguistic dispersals, agricultural expansions and population movements. Here we address this question by ‘triangulating’ genetics, archaeology and linguistics in a unified perspective. ...
Added: November 11, 2021
Starostin G., Etnograficeskoe Obozrenie 2021 No. 4 P. 43–50
The paper offers a critical analysis of several Afrasian etymologies with presumably “military” semantics, put forward by Alexander Militarev. The conclusion is that these etymologies typically suffer from multiple problems, such as lack of proper attention to the historical typology of semantic shifts and insufficient consideration for the distribution of potential reflexes in daughter languages. ...
Added: October 15, 2021
Kalugin D., Slavic Literatures (ранее - Russian Literature) 2021 Т. 119 С. 103–130
Similarly to many other important terms of our social vocabulary, the concept of
dignity is employed within different discourses, but in Russia a special role in its
development belongs to literature. This article discusses the use of the collocation
“dignity of a poet” in Russia in the 18th century, when cultural production started
to become autonomized and the status ...
Added: September 21, 2021
Kassian A., Zhivlov M., Starostin G. et al., Linguistics 2021 Vol. 59 No. 4 P. 949–979
In this article we present a new reconstruction of Indo-European phylogeny based on 13 110-item basic wordlists for protolanguages of IE subgroups (Proto-Germanic, Proto-Slavic, etc.) or ancient languages of the corresponding
subgroups (Hittite, Ancient Greek, etc.). We apply reasonably formal techniques of linguistic data collection and post-processing (onomasiological reconstruction, derivational drift elimination, homoplastic optimization) that have ...
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Lukhovitskiy L., Zharkaya V., Jahrbuch der Osterreichischen Byzantinistik 2020 Vol. 70 P. 271–288
The article focuses on the historical semantics of πειθανάγκη. It is a postclassical creation with the earliest attestation in Polybius and the earliest conscious usage as an oxymoron in Cicero. In Late Antiquity and Early Byzantium it occurs rarely and means “coercion” or “extortion” — a device used by those in power to force their ...
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Калугин Д. Я., Маслов Б. П., М.: Новое литературное обозрение, 2019.
В книге собраны статьи, посвященные исторической семантике. ...
Added: October 5, 2018