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Contact‐Induced Changes in Morphosyntax: An Introduction
Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 121, Issue 3, Page 331-335, November 2023.
Michele Bianconi, Robin Meyer
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Ecology of Finnic minority languages: Comparative analysis of post-communist trajectories
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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Rhyme Correspondences between Sinitic and Uralic Languages: On the Example of the Finnish -ala and -aja Rhymes; pp. 94-108 [PDF]
The present study explores rhyme correspondences between Finnic (~ Uralic) and Sinitic languages, taking the Finnish -ala and -aja rhymes as an example.
Jingyi Gao
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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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Finnic comparative constructions in an areal context
This paper discusses comparative constructions in the Finnic languages. The main focus is on the southern Finnic languages with separate attention paid to dialect variation.
Norvik, Miina, Saar, Eva
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The Role of Syncretism in the Morphology of the Finnic Languages [PDF]
Syncretism and the overlapping of morphologi- cally distinct units or entire categories have different influences on morphosyntactically cumulative and less cumulative forms.
Grünthal, Riho
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Distances among Uralic and Other Northern Eurasian Languages [PDF]
The present occurrence or non-occurrence of 46 structural features is analyzed in language groups ranging from Finnic to Eskimo-Aleut. Normalized measures of commonalities and distances between two languages are developed and used for graphical ...
Rein Taagepera, Ago Künnap
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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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Anmerkungen hinsichtlich einer baltischen Herkunft von osfi. *vana *’Hochwasser, Überschwemmung’ [On the Baltic Origin of the Finnic *vana *’flood, inundation’] [PDF]
The possible Baltic origin of the Finnic word *vana âflood, inundationâ is discussed: Baltic *tvana-: Lithuanian tvãnas, tvãnai pl âdeluge of a river, inundation, flood; a large number (of); abscessâetc.
Lembit Vaba
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Finnic Stop Gradation as an Effect of Mora Sharing; pp. 161-181 [PDF]
Finnic radical stop gradation affected stop consonants in the onset position of unstressed syllables. The stops were weakened before closed syllables, and remained unweakened before open syllables.
Külli Prillop
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