Sep 2026· Buddhist Studies Review· Vol 43, pp. 36-79· 0 citations
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A study of the variants in the Thai Syāmaraṭṭha canon shows that in many cases they offer an equal or better reading than the other recensions. By “better” is meant more contextually relevant, earlier, and more accurate—that is, offering a better solution to arcane morphological and semantic problems. In many cases these variants may be traced back to the earliest layers of the canon, through a detailed examination of various factors of language change including diachronic evolution, dialect and/or koiné influence, the effects of bilingualism, and the vagaries and ambiguities inherent in the oral transmission process.
This article examines the impact of Scandinavian languages on the development of English, with particular attention to the contact between Old English and Old Norse. It argues that this contact led to significant and long-lasting linguistic changes during the Viking period. These changes affected multiple levels of the...
S. S. Mammadova· The Actual Problems of study...· 0 citations
Abstract:This essay revisits a long-standing question that has been renewed with some political urgency in the rise of the new disciplinary nomenclature of global Anglophone studies: what does it mean to make knowledge out of other people's languages? I explore this question through the works of two Chinese American wr...
An examination of early Middle English texts is essential for understanding the emergence and development of the
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thou
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Rahel Huwyler· Journal of Historical Pragma...· 0 citations
The article examines the concept of variation and its place in linguistics, its study and types, as well as the lexical features of phraseological variants used in the works of Sh. Isakhanova. The writer’s individual style in the use of phraseological units and the significance of phrasemes in revealing the distinctive...
Feruz Erkaboyeva· Ijtimoiy-gumanitar sohada il...· 0 citations
