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Russian-Estonian border in the context of post-soviet ethnic transformations
The authors explore the main trends and regional peculiarities of ethnic transformations during the post-Soviet period in the Russian and Estonian borderlands.
Andrei G. Manakov, Jaak Kliimask
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Future time reference in the Finnic languages: LEE(NE)- verbs [PDF]
The Finnic languages are often presented as an example of languages that use the present tense for expressing the future. As generalizations about future time reference in the Finnic languages have usually been made on the basis of Finnish and Estonian ...
Norvik, Miina
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A History of East Baltic through language contact [PDF]
Acknowledgements -- List of Tables -- Symbols and Abbreviations -- Data Sources and Conventions -- Introduction -- Part 1. Contacts with Known Languages. 1 Baltic–Slavic Contacts: 1.1 Early Slavic → Baltic Loans; 1.2 Early Baltic → Slavic Loans?
Jakob, Anthony
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The Finnic Tetrameter – A Creolization of Poetic Form? [PDF]
This article presents a new theory on the origins of the common Finnic tetrameter as a poetic form (also called the Kalevala-meter, regilaul meter, etc.).
Frog, -
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The present article gives an overview of the borrowed vocabulary of the Rus- sian dialect of the Kola peninsula, which mostly comes from Finno-Ugric languages.
David Pineda
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Finnic language islands in eastern Latvia: Archaeological background and perspective [PDF]
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, Heiki Valk
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Vironkielisten osallistujien kielitaito Yleisten kielitutkintojen suomen kielen testissä
Tarkastelemme tässä artikkelissa vironkielisten suomen oppijoiden osallistumista Suomen kansallisen kielitestin, Yleisten kielitutkintojen, keskitason tutkintoon ja heidän kielitaitoprofiiliaan tutkintotulosten valossa.
Mari Honko, Sari Ahola, Tuija Hirvelä
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Clustering Lexical Variation of Finnic Languages Based on Atlas Linguarum Fennicarum [PDF]
The article focuses on lexical relations of the Finnic languages. Here we studied whether lexical data is suitable for detecting the coarse-grained and fine-grained substructure within the Finnic group.
Honkola T. +7 more
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Indo-Uralic consonant gradation [PDF]
Koivulehto and Vennemann have recently (1996) revived Posti’s theory (1953) which attributed Finnic consonant gradation to Germanic influence, in particular to the influence of Verner’s law. This theory disregards the major differences between Finnic and
Kortlandt, Frederik H. H.
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Indo-Iranian loanwords in Finnic - a critical overview
The article deals with presumed Indo-Iranian loanwords in Finnic languages which have no cognates in other branches of the Uralic language family. A mainstream view, held by nearly all scholars of Uralic etymology, is that the contacts began already at ...
Holopainen, S
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