Language change for the worse [PDF]
Many theories hold that language change, at least on a local level, is driven by a need for improvement. The present volume explores to what extent this assumption holds true, and whether there is a particular type of language change that we dub language
Schaden, Gerhard +16 more
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Derivational means of expressing locativity in the Erzya and Finnish languages
Финно-угорский мир, 2018 The semantic category “locality” is a common phenomenon in various languages and has various means of expression. The article deals with derivational means of expressing the category of locality on the material of the long-range Erzya and Finnish ...
Anna S. Migunova
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Nominal ellipsis reveals concord in Moksha Mordvin
Syntax, Volume 26, Issue 4, Page 355-403, December 2023., 2023 Abstract On the basis of original data from Moksha Mordvin (Finno‐Ugric), I argue that some languages have nominal concord even though modifiers of the noun generally do not show inflection. Evidence for the presence of concord comes from nominal ellipsis, under which inflection is phonologically realized and restricted in the same way as regular ...
Mariia Privizentseva
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Bilingualism in the Author’s Translation of the National Epic: on the Material of “Mastorava”
Polylinguality and Transcultural Practices, 2023 In 1994, the Erzya epic “Mastorava” was published in the Erzya language. The success of this work made us think about the need for its translation into Russian.
Alexander M. Sharonov +1 more
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Ways to quantify of abstract nouns in the modern Erzya language
Финно-угорский мир, 2021 Introduction. The article analyzes abstract nouns based on the material of the modern Erzya language, which in various contexts can be concretized, becoming the basis for the formation of their plural.
Lyubov P. Vodyasova
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Establishing a Role for Minority Source Language in Multilingual Facilitation
Nordlyd: Tromsø University Working Papers on Language & Linguistics, 2022 This document is dedicated to a young man, who, despite the number of times he has traveled around the Sun, is always open to new thoughts on ways to include languages, especially the smaller ones, and the people who speak them in far-reaching and
Jack Rueter +3 more
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The first neural machine translation system for the Erzya language [PDF]
, 2022 We present the first neural machine translation system for translation between the endangered Erzya language and Russian and the dataset collected by us to train and evaluate it.
Dale, David
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Translation of the “Gospel of Luke” (1821) into Erzya: some features of noun morphology
Финно-угорский мир, 2020 Introduction. This paper considers some features of noun morphology in the translation of the “Gospel of Luke” (1821) into the Erzya language, namely the indicators of such grammatical categories of the noun as number, case and the categories of ...
Ekaterina M. Deviatkina
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Geographical lexicon of the konovalovsky dialect of the Erzya-Mordovian language
, 2021 The article introduces into scientific circulation and analyzes the geographical lexicon of the Erzya-Mordovian dialect of the village of Konovalovka in the Borsky district of the Samara region.
Belenov, Nikolai V.
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The Condition of the Mordvin Languages as Suggested by the Results of the Terminological Dictionary Project ”Terminologia Scholaris * Shkol´naja terminologija”; pp. 278-289 [PDF]
Linguistica Uralica, 2015 On the initiative of the institute Collegium Fenno-Ugricum in 2010â2011 the school terminology of ten school subjects in five Finno-Ugric languages of Russia (Erzya, Moksha, Mari, Komi, Udmurt) has been elaborated to provide the means for writing ...
János Pusztay
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