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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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Factors influencing conservatism and purism in languages of Northern Europe (Nordic, Baltic, Finnic) [PDF]
, 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.
Piechnik, Iwona; Uniwersytet Jagielloński
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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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Finnic Numerals for ’8’ and ’9’ and a Possible Parallel from Samoyed [PDF]
Linguistica Uralica, 2022 The paper deals with a suffix contained in the Finnic numerals for âeightâ and ânineâ, such as the Estonian kahe-ksa and ühe-ksa. Taking into consideration the forms of some southern varieties of Finnic, such as Votic and Livonian, it is ...
Valentin Gusev
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In Search of Toponymic Borders in Belozerye [PDF]
Вопросы 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
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Lembit Vaba, Über eine mögliche baltische Herkunft von frühosfi. *lēćća *’Blasebalg’ [On the Possible Baltic Origin of the Early Proto-Finnic *lēćća *’bellows’]; pp. 161-167 [PDF]
Linguistica Uralica, 2016 There is still no consensus about the origin of the Finnic word family represented by, e.g. Fin lietsa, Est lõõts etc. The alleged Germanic etymology ~ ÂProto-Germ *blÄstra-z (cf. Old Norse blástr m âBlasen, Schwellungâ etc).
Lembit Vaba
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’Ščast´je’ i ’udača’ v finno-ugorskih jazykah [Abstract. The Concepts ’luck’ and ’success’ in Finno-Ugric Languages]; pp. 265-275 [PDF]
Linguistica Uralica, 2012 The language material analysed enables the conclusion that in different Finno-Ugric languages the concepts âluckâ and âsuccessâ are expressed using various linguistic means, such as polysemous nouns, verb phrases, or idioms.
Jevgenij Cypanov
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