Predicative possession and a possible contact-induced phenomenon among Finnic and East Slavic languages: having a headache between the Baltic Sea and the sources of the Volga River [PDF]
Gianguido Manzelli
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Factors influencing conservatism and purism in languages of Northern Europe (Nordic, Baltic, Finnic)
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.
Iwona Piechnik
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DISSIMILATORY PLURAL FORMATIONS IN BALTIC FINNIC [PDF]
R T Harms
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Transitivity pairs in Baltic: between Finnic and Slavic [PDF]
Nicole Nau, Jurgis Pakerys
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Nina ZAITSEVA, Natalia KRIZHANOVSKAIA
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Abstract Despite intense research on grammaticalization, no satisfactory definition has so far been proposed. Some would argue that it is indeed impossible to come up with a precise definition as grammaticalization is an epiphenomenon. After pointing out problems in existing definitions, this article proposes a new definition of grammaticalization as a
Kasper Boye
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In Search of Toponymic Borders in Belozerye [PDF]
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]
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]
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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The Finnic Peoples of Russia: Genetic Structure Inferred from Genome-Wide and Y-Chromosome Data. [PDF]
Agdzhoyan A +10 more
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