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Interperformative relationships in Ingrian oral poetry [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
The aim of this article is twofold: to introduce the Ingrian poetic singing culture, which is often referred to when discussing Kalevala-metric poetry, and to discuss aspects of performance and intertextuality. The central point here is to highlight that
Kallio, Kati
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Manner expressions in Finnish and Estonian: their use in quotative constructions and beyond

open access: yesLinguistics
In this study, we look at manner demonstratives (such as ‘so’ and similative prepositions such as ‘like’) in complex sentences of two Finnic languages: Finnish and Estonian.
Teptiuk Denys, Tuuling Eda-Riin
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Negative Pronouns in Finnic Languages (Based on Materials from the Gospel Translations)

open access: yesTomsk Journal of Linguistics and Anthropology
В работе на материале шести прибалтийско-финских идиомов (вепсского, северного и ливвиковского вариантов карельского языка, сето, финского и эстонского) рассматривается подкласс неопределенных местоимений, который в литературе часто именуется отрицательными местоимениями. Материалом исследования послужили переводы текстов Евангелий на эти языки.
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Estonian alphabet and pronunciation [PDF]

open access: yes
Introduction to the Estonian alphabet, spelling, and ...
Moseley, Christopher
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Towards standardized inflected lexicons for the Finnic languages

open access: yes
We introduce three richly annotated lexicons of nouns for Livonian, standard Finnish and Livvi Karelian. Our datasets are distributed in the machine-readable Paralex standard, which consists of linked CSV tables described in a JSON metadata file. We built on the morphological dictionary of Livonian, the VepKar database and the Omorfi software to ...
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Factors influencing conservatism and purism in languages of Northern Europe (Nordic, Baltic, Finnic)

open access: yes, 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.
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