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Rahvalaulud ja rahvamuusika Virumaal [PDF]
The article discusses folk songs in Virumaa region, starting from their earliest forms until today. Like Estonian folk songs in general, folk songs in Virumaa are also divided into two main historic-stylistic layers: the ancient or runo verse (in Finland
Ingrid Rüütel
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Pseudolingvistika kui folkloorinähtus [PDF]
The article discusses pseudo-linguistic theories about the kinship of the Estonian language published since the 1920s. The author describes these theories, pointing to their characteristic features and causes of origin, and then proceeds to give an ...
Maarja Villandi
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THE PREPOSITIVE ADNOMINAL GENITIVE IN BALTIC, BALTO-FINNIC AND SCANDINAVIAN LANGUAGES: A HISTORICAL SURVEY Summary The article deals with the parallel preposited adnominal non-partitive genitive in Baltic, Balto-Finnic and Scandinavian languages ...
Terje Mathiassen
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SEMANTIC MODEL “DILIGENT” IN THE BALTIC-FINNIC LANGUAGES
The article presents a semantic-motivational analysis of twenty Baltic-Finnic dialect and literary language words used to nominate a hard-working person. The source of the material was the dialect dictionaries of individual Baltic-Finnish languages and their file cabinets. The data of etymological dictionaries are also involved. The undertaken research
Irma Ivanovna Mullonen +1 more
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Etnolingvistiniai santykiai priešistorinėje Šiaurės rytų Europoje
ETHNOLINGUISTIC SITUATION IN THE PREHISTORIC NORTH-EAST EUROPESummaryThe hitherto known facts allow to state that in the period between the disintegration of Indo-European community and the expansion of Mongolian-Turkic peoples four groups of langua ...
Leszek Bednarczuk
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Hipoteza Witolda Mańczaka o ugrofińskim substracie w językach bałtyckich
Witold Mańczak’s Hypothesis about the Finno-Ugric Substrate in the Baltic Languages The paper discusses Witold Mańczak’s hypothesis concerning a Finnic (particularly Balto-Finnic) substrate in the Baltic languages (Mańczak 1990: 29–38; 1993: 151; 2008:
Krzysztof Tomasz Witczak
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Finnic language islands in eastern Latvia: Archaeological background and perspective
This article discusses the archaeological background of the Leivu and Lutsi Finnic language islands. In contrast to the earlier research tradition, a hidden Finnic presence is suggested by the distribution area of Roman Iron Age tarand graves up to and ...
Valk, Heiki
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The article studies pre-Christian Finnic anthroponyms and their spread in the northern Baltic Sea area at the end of Middle Ages (c. AD 1520). This is done by analysing village names based on pre-Christian Finnic personal name elements.
Raunamaa, Jaakko
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Finnic anthroponymy in the Middle Ages : Perspectives on pre-Christian and early Christian personal names [PDF]
This dissertation investigates personal names attested among Baltic-Finns during the Middle Ages (c. 1200¬−1550 AD). The focus is on pre-Christian anthroponymy, but foreign names, mainly Christian ones, are addressed as well.
Raunamaa, Jaakko
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Baltic context of some Estonian periphrastic causative constructions
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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