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Hokan I: A review of comparative studies
Journal of Language Relationship. 2024. No. 1-2(22). P. 162–188.
The article reviews the history of Hokan studies, from the formulation of the Hokan hypothesis by Dixon & Kroeber in 1912–1913 to the present day. Despite more than a hundred years of research, there is yet no consensus on the validity of the Hokan hypothesis. The article argues that one of the reasons for this is the fact that many attempts to compare Hokan languages used a non-standard methodology, in which the study stops at listing the observed sound correspondences, instead of the classical comparative method, which requires a search for complementary distributions and a comprehensive reconstruction of proto-phonology.
Степанов А. Г., Slavica Tergestina. Italy 2025 Т. 35 № 2 С. 158–193
The connection of the poetic form with the content is investigated. The free verse, developed by W. Whitman in the second half of the 19th century, took root in the USSR with difficulty. In modern Russian poetry, the free verse, while preserving the aura of Western poetic culture, often combines gender and political meanings, broadcasting ...
Added: October 16, 2026
Podobryaev A., Ivlieva N., Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 2026 Vol. 11 No. 1 P. 1–25
Unlike many other Turkic languages, Balkar normally demonstrates obligatory subject-verb
number agreement in finite clauses with 3rd person subjects: when a subject is plural-marked,
so is the verb. However, there are cases when the subject is not overtly plural-marked, but the
verb can be. We argue for an account where such facts are not reduced to any form ...
Added: October 15, 2026
Zenkin S., P.: Classiques Garnier, 2025.
In the 19th and 20th centuries, visual image (painting, sculpture, photography, etc.) can often be a character in literary and film plots, an element of the fictional world. Its narrative forms and functions are explored from a theoretical and comparative perspective. ...
Added: October 13, 2026
ИДВ РАН, 2026.
This paper addresses the issue perceiving the national Vietnamese costume as a tool of cultural representation in the context of official state events held in Vietnam and abroad. The study focuses on specific cases of protocol visits, meetings, forums, and beauty contests, where the ao dai and other types and elements of national clothing are ...
Added: October 12, 2026
Qiang S., Linguistic Research 2025 No. 3 P. 76–85
The determination of new words and meanings is a key issue in lexical history studies. However,
common reliance on identifying “the earliest examples” can be challenged by textual complexity and subjective
disagreements. Focusing on the emergence of the FAST meaning of kuai (快), this study proposes criteria for
identifying new meanings from the perspective of the lexical system. ...
Added: October 12, 2026
Budennaya E., Русская речь 2026 Т. 4 С. 57–78
This study analyzes non-calendar and hypocoristic Christian names
within the Russian white clergy. It identifi es two active periods of name formation using Slavic hypocoristic suffi xes: the 11th — 14th centuries (peaking
in the 12th) and the 16th — 17th centuries.
The fi rst period is tied to the general adoption of Christian names, where
diminutive forms acted ...
Added: October 11, 2026
Budennaya E., Slovĕne 2026 Т. 1 С. 31–67
The article examines Old Russian anthroponyms with the suffix -ec-, originally conveying the meaning ‘less than X’. A diachronic corpus study of
11th–17th-century texts reveals that while this suffix lacked inherent pejorative
connotations in Old Russian sources, contextual (adherent) pejoration is clearly
observable. For pre-15th-century chronicles, two primary usage patterns are
identified—1) characters with explicit negative evaluation, and 2) ...
Added: October 11, 2026
Seleznev M., Луппова А. А., Вестник Свято-Филаретовского института 2026 Т. 18 № 1(57) С. 10–35
The story of the Tower of Babel (Gen 11:1-9) is one of the key episodes in the narratives of the Book of Genesis. In modern scholarship, various—often sharply divergent—datings of this pericope are proposed, as well as different interpretations of its place in the picture of the formation of the biblical text that was put ...
Added: October 9, 2026
Seleznev M., Луппова А. А., Вестник Свято-Филаретовского института 2026 Т. 18 № 2 (58) С. 322–349
Like other narratives in the Book of Genesis, the story of Cain and Abel (Gen 4:1–16) has been studied and commented upon for more than two millennia. However, recent scholarship has introduced significant revisions to traditional interpretations. Over the past five years, several monumental commentaries on Genesis 1–11 have been published, offering new—and sometimes mutually ...
Added: October 9, 2026
Seleznev M., Vestnik Drevnei Istorii 2026 Vol. 3 No. 86 P. 589–592
The article reconstructs the 'biography' of an alleged (in fact, non-existent) fragment of
4QDeutq said to contain a non-Masoretic reading of Deut 32 : 8. It traces how erroneous
references to the fragment emerged during the preliminary publication of the Scrolls in the
1950s, the scholarly attention this fragment received, its eventual disappearance from Qumran
studies after the official ...
Added: October 9, 2026
Ronko R., Тимофеева В. Д., Индоиранские языки 2026 Т. 2 № 2 С. 117–146
The paper is devoted to the variable number marking in Shughni
nouns and reports the results of corpus and experimental studies. In some languages,
including Shughni, the marking of plural nouns is not compulsory. Many
factors such as animacy, referentiality, morphological and semantic properties,
or syntactic position may determine the presence or absence of number marking.
The corpus study investigates ...
Added: October 8, 2026
Ronko R., Zemicheva S., Труды института русского языка им. В.В. Виноградова 2026 Т. 3 № 49 С. 133–149
In the dialects of the Russian-Belarusian borderland, the verb byt’ ‘to be’ in the present tense is represented by a set of short (e, ё) and full forms (ecть, ёсць, etc.). This article investigates the variability of these forms in the dialect corpus of the village of Spiridonova Buda (Zlynkovskij District, Bryansk Region) and in ...
Added: October 8, 2026
Ronko R., RHEMA. РЕМА 2026 № 1 С. 9–20
In the introductory article to the thematic volume devoted to grammatical research on the speech of several villages, the main linguistic-geographical information about the dialect is presented, along with a description of the key methodological principles for working with the material. The dialects under study belong to the group of the Pskov dialects and border ...
Added: October 8, 2026
Rezvykh P. V., Вестник Российского университета дружбы народов. Серия: Философия 2026 Т. 30 № 1 С. 127–143
The issue delivers an analysis of schellingian motives in the later works by A.F. Losev. The author brings information about Losev’s retrospective evaluation of Schelling’s influence on the formation of his own philosophical approach, it’s specific character and it’s grade. The author shows that all the main investigation projects of the later Losev which have ...
Added: October 7, 2026
Pershkina A., Slovĕne 2026 Т. 15 № 1 С. 174–192
The article newly presents archival materials from the Directorate of Imperial Theaters relative to the organization of a crocodile exhibition held in St. Petersburg Passage department store in the autumn of 1864, along with newspaper reports on the event. The close analysis of specific articles demonstrates that this exhibition served as the direct inspiration and ...
Added: October 5, 2026
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 ...
Added: October 2, 2026
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. ...
Added: October 2, 2026
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. ...
Added: September 27, 2026
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. ...
Added: October 29, 2025
Балтийский федеральный университет им. Иммануила Канта, 2022.
Представлены доклады участников международной научно- практической конференции «Публично-правовые аспекты юридической компаративистики. V Прокопьевские чтения», состоявшейся в Балтийском федеральном университете им. И. Канта. ...
Added: December 28, 2023
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 ...
Added: April 8, 2022
Zhivlov M., Etnografia 2019 No. 3 P. 167–180
The article analyzes an areal polysemy ‘earth/year’ in the languages of North America. The distribution of the trait largely coincides with the cultural region of California. Within this area, the polysemy ‘earth/year’ is attested from Molala in the north to Seri in the south. The trait in question is apparently old in Yuman, Chumashan and ...
Added: November 19, 2019
Starostin George, Journal of Language Relationship 2018 Vol. 16 No. 1-2 P. 19–61
This paper is the first one in an intended series of publications on lexicostatistical relations between several linguistic groupings that have all been assigned by Joseph Greenberg to the hypothetical Khoisan macrofamily. Here, we examine the numbers and natures of various matches between the basic lexicon of two such groupings: the closely related cluster of ...
Added: October 22, 2018
Zhivlov M., Journal of Language Relationship 2018 Vol. 16 No. 2 P. 138–161
In this paper I present a detailed analysis of a number of morphological comparisons between the branches of the hypothetical Hokan family. The following areas are considered: 1) subject person/number markers on verbs, as well as possessor person/number markers on nouns, 2) so-called ‘lexical prefixes’ denoting instrument and manner of action on verbs, 3) plural infixes, used with ...
Added: October 2, 2018