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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The Role of Syncretism in the Morphology of the Finnic Languages [PDF]
, 2010 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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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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Internationalisation and modern languages in Scottish Further and Higher Education [PDF]
, 2009 This scoping study investigated the impact of internationalisation strategies on modern language provision in Scottish further and higher education and was commissioned by the Subject Centre for Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies. It follows on from
Doughty, H. +3 more
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Finnic Stop Gradation as an Effect of Mora Sharing; pp. 161-181 [PDF]
Linguistica Uralica, 2011 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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Digital Etymological Dictionary of the Oldest Vocabulary of Finnish
Rasprave Instituta za Hrvatski Jezik i Jezikoslovlje, 2020 This paper presents the new project Digital etymological dictionary of the oldest vocabulary of Finnish (University of Helsinki, funded by the Kone Foundation) and discusses the present state and challenges of the (especially digital) etymological ...
Santeri Junttila +2 more
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Leisten die Baltismen in den ostseefinnischen Sprachen einen Beitrag zur Klärung der Entwicklungsetappen von balt. *ei?[Can the Baltic Loanwords in Finnic Languages Clarify the Stages of Development of the Baltic Diphthong *ei?]; pp. 26-31 [PDF]
Linguistica Uralica, 2016 I believe that the Baltic loanwords detected in Finnnic languages can indeed shed some light on the still somewhat unclear history of the Baltic vowel system.
Lembit Vaba
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