Proto-Asiatic Elements in Ostyak-Samoyed Culture

The Elements of Culture

ture, mainly through an operationalist perspective (operationalism is explained in 5.4.1.). Other approaches to the unpackaging of culture, rooted in different schools of thought, are also possible. Yet, operationalizations of abstract concepts are needed to understand the empirical realities that they target. This chapter briefly dwells on what can be called particular elements of culture: tho...

Cerebellar cortical abiotrophy in a Samoyed dog

Serebellar abiotrofi birçok hayvan türünde cinsiyetten bağımsız, otozomal, kalıtsal nitelikte tipik olarak Purkinje hücrelerinin progresif kaybıyla karakterize bir durumdur. Mevcut vakada travma veya başka hastalık hikayesi olmayan ataksi gözlenen bir haftalık Samoyed ırkı bulunmaktadır. Fiziksel muayenede kontrolsüz hareketler, gövdede ılımlı ataksi ve başta şiddetli titremeler gözlendi. Ayrıc...

Samoyed Security and mobility framework Interim report of project Samoyed 2004

The Semantics of Northern Ostyak Evidentials

This paper deals with the semantics of the Evidential marker in Northern Ostyak. As far as I know, the semantics of grammaticalized Evidentials has not been studied in detail for the (eastern) Uralic languages, although in the modal system of some of them the Evidential category plays an important role. I will analyze the different meanings of the Ostyak Evidentials, and suggest that the appare...

The Most Important Elements in Japanese Culture

Japanese culture is not easy to understand for the Westerner examining it from the outside. It takes many years of study for a foreigner to get a grip on it, be able to understand what is going on, and at least in some cases see why something is happening. I have put together a list of the major components as I understand it but apologize in advance for things that I have missed or imperfectly ...