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Life is never easy in a migrant center; for refugees in Hungarian camps, it may soon get harder still.
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Life is never easy in a migrant center; for refugees in Hungarian camps, it may soon get harder still.
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Many parliamentarians concerned over election of ‘fascists’ and rising level of intolerance in the country.
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Now in the hundreds, the elves try to turn the tide in the comment sections of the country's websites.
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President Emomali Rahmon suggests holding the holidays on consecutive days in the latest of a series of eccentric proposals.
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The trial of a partially blind housewife and wheelchair-bound former biology student is being viewed as a snapshot of a continent that is rescinding its welcome to migrants.
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The new field and archive data on three groups of the Mansi dialects (Northern, Western and Eastern) are analysed inthe article. On the basis of comparing these data and analysis them in the phonetic program the Proto-Mansi vowel systemis reconstructed and it differs from the previous ones.
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The Tungusic languages have the so called “locative case” -la. It is usually polysemous; the set of its spatial meanings is quite intriguing and varies across the languages; it also tends to have no specialized function: in all its uses it competes with one of the main spatial cases to a greater or a lesser extent. La-case can mark a) LOCATION (essive), b) GOAL (lative), c) PATH (prolative). The paper deals with the puzzle of the meanings of the la-case and proposes the possible scenario of their diachronic development. This scenario suggests LOCATION+GOAL as an initial cluster of meanings and PATH as the last stage of the semantic development of -la. This stage can be observed in Nanai, where the central function of -la is prolative whereas the other two are also attested. Thus, the data of Nanai which are considered in detail in the paper let us trace and explain the diachronic semantic shifts between the spatial meanings of the la-case on a micro level andto make some clarifications on the category of Prolative in a cross-linguistic perspective. The crucial notion for the polysemy of the la-case seems to be the CONTACT with the Trajector.
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The article is devoted to the affinity of the Turkic and Mongoliс languages in vocabulary, the author deals with the wordsdenoting phenomena of inanimate nature. The author analyses the landscape vocabulary, the names of different types ofsoil, water objects, atmospheric phenomena, the celestial spheres etc. The data of the Khalkha Mongolian and Old WrittenMongolian languages are studied in the first place, the data of Buryat and Kalmyk are used when they exist in these languages.The data of the Old Turkic language were compared with the Mongolic ones, and presence of similar words saysabout the Turko-Mongolic lexical affinity. In most cases analysis of the common words allows to establish their Turkic origin.The large number of common words, which origin is identifed as Turkic, indicates numerous ancient contacts between theTurkic and Mongolic languages, which led to the hybridisation of the Mongolic lexicon.
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The article is devoted to the research of a genetic relationship of the Altaic languages, which is alternative to the hypothesisof a contact origin of the similarities between the groups of languages of the Altaic family (the Turkic, Mongolic andTungusic languages). The author critically examines the methods of opponents’ studies, shows the impossibility of solvingthe question of relationship of language groups outside the Altaic family, failure of some points of view on the history of theAltaic languages and V. Kotvich’s false interpretation on the Altaic problem. The author shows that only the recognition of the genetic relationship of the Altaic languages allows to distinguish the original Altaic vocabulary and the multidirectionalborrowings.
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