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Factors influencing conservatism and purism in languages of Northern Europe (Nordic, Baltic, Finnic)

open access: green, 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.
Iwona Piechnik
openaire   +3 more sources

Grammaticalization as Conventionalization of Discursively Secondary Status: Deconstructing the Lexical–Grammatical Continuum

open access: yesTransactions of the Philological Society, Volume 121, Issue 2, Page 270-292, July 2023., 2023
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
wiley   +1 more source

In Search of Toponymic Borders in Belozerye [PDF]

open access: yesВопросы 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
doaj   +1 more source

Zur baltischen Herkunft von osfi. *mokka ’Lippe, Lefze’ [On the Baltic Origin of the Finnic *mokka ’(animal) lip, mouth’]; pp. 104-108 [PDF]

open access: yesLinguistica Uralica, 2018
The possible Baltic origin of the Finnic word mokka ’(animal) lip, mouth’ is discussed: Baltic *smaka-, cf. Lithuanian smãkras etc. ’chin; beard’, Latvian smakris etc. ’chin, palate’, Lithuanian smãkės pl. ’pig snout, elephant’s trunk;
Lembit Vaba
doaj   +1 more source

On the Problem of the Pre-Christian Finnic Personal Names in the Toponymy of the Russian North [PDF]

open access: yesВопросы 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
doaj   +1 more source

The Finnic Peoples of Russia: Genetic Structure Inferred from Genome-Wide and Y-Chromosome Data. [PDF]

open access: yesGenes (Basel)
Agdzhoyan A   +10 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

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