If questioning how (gender) policies can be changed, it is not only inevitable to find out which knowledge is required, but how the actors might acquire this (new) knowledge: It must be examined where the knowledge in this policy field usually originates from, which the influential think tanks are, and how the knowledge is
dissimilated and by whom.
4), who analyzes the Avestan reduplicated stem ja[??]na- (ganljan 'slay') as
dissimilated from the intensive stem *jan[??]na-.
Muller-Kessler appears to be unfamiliar with the precise meaning of the linguistic terms assimilation and dissimilation, since elsewhere she describes the form [??] 'young men' as "a
dissimilated spelling of [??]" See C.
Also,
dissimilated forms have been separated as in the case of [??] (p.
Nevertheless the supposed dissimilation process has no exact parallels in Middle Indic; moreover, the assumption of an analogical generalization of the
dissimilated stem is not so obvious from a psychological point of view: indeed, it may be thought that morphological analogy would have rather tended to restore the undissimilated form in the 2nd singular.
Here GaB pays too much attention to the suggestion that the initial 'ayin might be a
dissimilated prosthetic aleph.
According to Barth, la sometimes
dissimilated to li, resulting in forms such as [delta]alika (ms).
9): _[TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] M163:24 is not equivalent to _[TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII], but is either a shortened and
dissimilated form of _[TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] by dissimilation of [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] and assimilation of [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] to [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII], or stands for _[TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] meaning "before"; cf.
For example, with the deictic element h' it forms the adverb hkh or h(')k' "here, hither," (3) which appears in Classical Syriac in a
dissimilated variant hrk' (4) and in modern West Aramaic (e.g., Ma'lula) on account of phonetic change as hoxa.
*fuldoer,
dissimilated from *furdaer; Thordarson 1989a: 465)
56 Melchert (1983, 159) recognizes that *twu is an "awkward sequence" and indicates the possibility of its being "immediately
dissimilated to *tu." But what would have motivated the analogical creation of the awkwardness in the first place?
This reviewer still prefers the interpretation of l as
dissimilated from *n before the following n, as proposed in 1965 and preferred also by J.
