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Slavic aspect and its implications
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Linguistics and Philosophy, 1990.
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The semantics of the preposition na in Slavic spatial constructions
… usage in spatial constructions in the Slavic languages is frequently unpredictable and perplexing to the non-native speaker. This is especially true in the case of the preposition na. By examining categories of spatial phenomena with which the preposition na is used, it is possible to …
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The Paganist Totem Birds in Slavic Folklore: The Black and The White
… that pagan cosmology once ran strong through the Slavic countries and traces are visible through the passed down folklore that spread through the land. While we talk of animals and their representation in folklore, we usually only refer to the Christian written western folklore, but these pagan …
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Overcoming loneliness: first-generation Slavic immigrants' experience with loneliness in the Inland Northwest
… al. 2011). This thesis examined first-generation Slavic immigrants who have had a long history Inland Northwest. Social network theory and a phenomenological approach guided my question formation and qualitative data collection methods. I used participant observation, informal interviews, …
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Phonological Rules in the Nominative Singular and the Genitive Plural of the Slavic Substantive Declension
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Balkan Minds: Transnational Nationalism and the Transformation of South Slavic Immigrant Identity in Chicago, 1890-1941
… America.</p> <p>The vast majority of South Slavic immigrants arrived in the United States between 1890 and 1924. Emigration was a practical response to the profound economic, social and political changes occurring in the Balkans. The experience as émigrés and exiles allowed the South Slavs …
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Decorator or narrator: A contextualisation of Slavic and Australian pattern making and its relationship to my painting practice
… in art practice from two cultural perceptions, Slavic and Australian. Existing differences between the two cultural backgrounds will be used to debate how pattern is understood by the viewer or practiced by an artist in a particular chosen environment. The central argument focuses on pattern as …
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The acquisition of the distinction between unaccusative and unergative verbs by English speakers at the lower intermediate level of L2 Russian
… Department of Linguistics and Germanic, Slavic, Asian and African Languages, 2005
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The Bear Is Emaciated: Russia's Projected Demographic Decline and Collapse, and How the United States Must Prepare
… and 10 children per adult woman for every one Slavic child. My conclusion is that Russia will be an Islamic state well before the end of this century unless Moscow decides on highly xenophobic and/or territorially aggressive actions – both quite possible given Russia's historic animosity with …
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Mes gimėme didžią valandą: Ukrainos nacionalinio identiteto reformacija 2014-2023 metais /
… how the narrative of the brotherhood of the Slavic peoples was changed and finally changed after the Russian aggression in 2014. The fourth task is to define the impact of the war with Russia on the reformation of the Ukrainian national identity through the speeches of the leaders and …
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Language of the Enemy: Impacts of the 2022 Russo-Ukrainian War on Linguistic and National Identity Paradigms in Ukraine
… of national identity. Both the Eastern Slavic and ethnic Ukrainian national identity complexes evolved over the course of centuries of Russian subjugation of ethnic Ukrainians through imperial control, cultural erasure, and linguistic russification and standardization. This master’s …
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Harðhljóð og linhljóð: Um aðröddunartíma í íslensku, sænsku og búlgörsku
… aspirated stop phonemes), Bulgarian (as all Slavic and Romance languages has voiced vs unvoiced stops) and Swedish (where the two phonemes in each pair have allophones that are either voiced, unvoiced unaspirated and unvoiced aspirated). The figures for Icelandic and Swedish were taken from …
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Perfume of the Soul: Compositional Influences of Emile Naoumoff
… life: the early period, influenced by Slavic folk elements; the neoclassical period, from studies with Nadia Boulanger; the French art song period; and his current fascination with the art of improvisation. My main focus will be to define and analyze the distinct stylistic differences …
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Bulgarian Contribution in Building the Byzantine Commonwealth in the Ninth and Tenth Centuries.
… and interpreting of Byzantine culture by the Slavic nations is a process of mutual acculturation, with paramount importance for the creation of the European cultural body.</p> <p>The findings indicate that the cultural and political aspirations of the Bulgarian ruling class in the middle of …
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Grieving (and) Weaving (and) Spreading (and) Becoming
… and incorporating found images, video, Slavic motifs, text and text(iles) in a disembodied search for identity, reconnection and softness. My arts-informed research project uses weaving methodologies, our personal archives among the discourse of grief, trauma, the domestic space, ritual, …
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The collapse of the Soviet Union: A study of demokratizatsiia
… for future research with an emphasis on the Slavic and Baltic states.
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Parental Attitudes Towards Early Childhood Education in Lower Sorbian: Challenges in Developing Bilingualism in a Critically Endangered Language
… or Wendish is a critically endangered West Slavic minority language spoken in the area around Cottbus, a town in eastern Germany near the Polish border. As intergenerational transmission of Lower Sorbian has virtually ceased, bilingual education in daycare centres and schools was selected as …
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Rituales dramático-festivos en la Grecia Moderna. Estudio terminológico de los ritos del Ciclo Festivo de la Navidad (dodecamerón), del carnaval y de primavera: origen, evolución y desarrollo.
… language and its millennial history. Roman, Slavic, Turkish, Italian, and Frankish influences can be seen, which have shaped the various characters involved in the ritual and its dramatic plot.
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