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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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
Piechnik, Iwona
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Contact‐Induced Changes in Morphosyntax: An Introduction
, 2023 Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 121, Issue 3, Page 331-335, November 2023.
Michele Bianconi, Robin Meyer
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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]
Linguistica Uralica, 2014 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]
Mäetagused, 2014 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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Distances among Uralic and Other Northern Eurasian Languages [PDF]
Linguistica Uralica, 2022 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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Anmerkungen hinsichtlich einer baltischen Herkunft von osfi. *vana *’Hochwasser, Überschwemmung’ [On the Baltic Origin of the Finnic *vana *’flood, inundation’] [PDF]
Linguistica Uralica, 2021 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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The Morphosyntax of Balto-Finnic Numeral-Noun Constructions
, 2021 This research program concerns puzzles in the morphology, syntax, and maybe even semantics of numeral-noun constructions in Balto-Finnic languages (basically just Finnish and Estonian)
Mark Norris
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Ecology of Finnic minority languages: Comparative analysis of post-communist trajectories
, 2022 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. This study analyzes materials kept in museums or research institutions, but also uses ethnographic survey ...
Danto, Anatole, Pertel, Léa
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