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Wie der Wegerich in den ostseefinnischen Sprachen zu seinem Namen kam [PDF]
Linguistica Uralica, 2022 The plantain (Plantago) has many names in Finnic languages. Names motivated by âroadâ as the habitat of the plant can be found not only in every Finnic language, but also in most of their more distant relatives.
Vilja Oja
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On the Evidence of the Verbal 3rd Person Suffix *-sV in Uralic [PDF]
Linguistica Uralica, 2022 In the olden times the Uralic languages involved in parallel both personal pronouns and personal suffixes. The clarification of the reasons for phonetic similarities of the consonant matter in personal pronouns and personal suffixes is not quite possible
Ago Künnap
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On the Finnic and Samoyedic Genitive and Accusative Plural; pp. 34-40 [PDF]
Linguistica Uralica, 2008 Samoyedic languages have strong traces about contacts with Finnic languages up to the transition of Samoyeds to the Finnic language form. The supposed onetime accusative singular ending *-m and accusative plural Âending *-j could not produce in Finnic ...
Ago Künnap
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Parallelism in Karelian Laments [PDF]
, 2017 Karelian laments are performed by women during a ritual -- funerals, weddings, and recruiting ceremonies -- and were once commonly used in other contexts of everyday life. Laments are works of a special kind of improvisation. They were created during the
Stepanova, Eila
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Transactions 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
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Clustering Lexical Variation of Finnic Languages Based on Atlas Linguarum Fennicarum; pp. 161-184 [PDF]
Linguistica Uralica, 2019 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.
Terhi Honkola +3 more
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Person matters in impersonality
Syntax, Volume 25, Issue 2, Page 147-187, June 2022., 2022 Abstract The Basque impersonal is a detransitivized construction where the internal argument is the only overt argument and the external argument, although semantically present, does not have any morphological reflex. This article argues that, despite its intransitive shape, the impersonal involves a particular kind of Voice projection that we term ...
Ane Berro, Ane Odria, Beatriz Fernández
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World Englishes, Volume 40, Issue 4, Page 631-649, December 2021., 2021 Abstract ‘Native‐like’ use of discourse markers is a good indicator of language proficiency. Analysing four subcorpora of English‐language tweets posted by Twitter users from the Nordic countries of Finland, Norway, and Sweden, this study considers the effects of discursive context and L1 influence on the correlation between semantic function and ...
Jukka Tyrkkö +2 more
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Reconnecting and Reconsidering. Remarks on the Final Discussion of the International Linguistic Symposium "Reconnecting Finnic", Hold in Helsinki, 14.-16. 11. 2002; pp. 197–212 [PDF]
Linguistica Uralica, 2022 In the final discussion of the symposium "Reconnecting Finnic" on attempt was made to probe into the question of why the fields of general linguistics on the one hand and Finnic/Uralic studies on the other take so little note of one another or build so ...
Anna Widmer
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Ecology of Finnic minority languages: Comparative analysis of post-communist trajectories
Slovo, 2022 Épisciences - Slovo This article aims to compare the trajectories of Finnic minority or dialect languages within the post-communist area of Latvia, Estonia, the Leningrad oblast and the Republic of Karelia. It is based on an interdisciplinary work in social sciences.
Danto, Anatole, Pertel, Léa
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