Baltic context of some Estonian periphrastic causative constructions [PDF]
Eesti ja Soome-ugri Keeleteaduse Ajakiri, 2017 I discuss 4 Estonian periphrastic causative constructions based on laskma, andma, panema, and sundima with respect to semantic shift from non-causative to causative use.
Jurgis Pakerys
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Factors influencing conservatism and purism in languages of Northern Europe (Nordic, Baltic, Finnic) [PDF]
, 2014 This paper shows common extralinguistic factors influencing conservatism and purism in languages of Northern Europe (Nordic, Baltic, Finnic). Users’ motivation, environment, culture, history and conscious policy are the keys to understand some tendencies in the slower rate of change of these languages.
Piechnik, Iwona
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The Finnic Peoples of Russia: Genetic Structure Inferred from Genome-Wide and Y-Chromosome Data. [PDF]
Genes (Basel)Background: Eastern Finnic populations, including Karelians, Veps, Votes, Ingrians, and Ingrian Finns, are a significant component of the history of Finnic populations, which have developed over ~3 kya.
Agdzhoyan A +10 more
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Finnic comparative constructions in an areal context [PDF]
, 2023 This paper discusses comparative constructions in the Finnic languages. The main focus is on the southern Finnic languages with separate attention paid to dialect variation.
Norvik, Miina, Saar, Eva
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In Search of Toponymic Borders in Belozerye [PDF]
Вопросы ономастики, 2016 The article presents some results of the expedition aimed at documenting toponymic and lexical substratal data in the Lake Beloye area (Belozerye). The survey was carried out in the summer of 2015 in the south-western part of Belozersky District around ...
Ekaterina V. Zakharova +2 more
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Zur baltischen Herkunft von osfi. *mokka ’Lippe, Lefze’ [On the Baltic Origin of the Finnic *mokka ’(animal) lip, mouth’]; pp. 104-108 [PDF]
Linguistica Uralica, 2018 The possible Baltic origin of the Finnic word mokka â(animal) lip, mouthâ is discussed: Baltic *smaka-, cf. Lithuanian smãkras etc. âchin; beardâ, Latvian smakris etc. âchin, palateâ, Lithuanian smãkÄs pl. âpig snout, elephantâs trunk;
Lembit Vaba
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On the Problem of the Pre-Christian Finnic Personal Names in the Toponymy of the Russian North [PDF]
Вопросы ономастики, 2017 The article addresses an understudied problem of pre-Christian Finnic personal names in the toponymy of the Russian North. In his observations, the author notes a considerable share of toponyms including such personal names recorded in the region ...
Janne Saarikivi
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Die ostseefinnische Bezeichnung für den Zapfen bzw. Wirtel von Nadelbäumen *kerk(k)ä [The Finnic Word *kerk(k)ä for the Cone or Whorl of Coniferous Trees]; pp. 1-5 [PDF]
Linguistica Uralica, 2020 The article discusses the possible Baltic etymology of the Finnic *kerk(k)ä Ââannual growth of the top or twigs of coniferous trees, whorl etc; cone of spruce or pineâ: Baltic *kerk-: Lithuanian kerkulÄ âtwo or more trees grown from one stumpâ,
Lembit Vaba
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K proischozhdeniju nazvanij soli v finno-permskich jazykach [On the Origin of the Word for ’Salt’ in Finnic-Permic Languages]; pp. 161-176 [PDF]
Linguistica Uralica, 2015 The Finnic-Permic word for âsaltâ, traditionally reconstructed as *salÉ (*sala) and explained as an Aryan loanword (cf. Skr. salilá- âsalty water, seaâ < PIE *sal- âsaltâ) is reconsidered. First, the Proto-Finnic-Mordvinian form, when based
V. V. Napol´skich
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Contact‐Induced Changes in Morphosyntax: An Introduction
, 2023 Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 121, Issue 3, Page 331-335, November 2023.
Michele Bianconi, Robin Meyer
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