Areal relations of Indo-European loanwords in Finnic dialects
The areas of the distribution of Indo-European loanwords in Finnic dialects are described on many lexical maps of the Atlas Linguarum Fennicarum and the Atlas Linguarum Europae.
Vilja Oja
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Finnic language islands in eastern Latvia: Archaeological background and perspective
This article discusses the archaeological background of the Leivu and Lutsi Finnic language islands. In contrast to the earlier research tradition, a hidden Finnic presence is suggested by the distribution area of Roman Iron Age tarand graves up to and including the Medieval Period when the presence of a Finnic population in northeastern Latvia (“the ...
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Lutsi speakers and rememberers in the late 20th and early 21st centuries
This article describes the language of the last speakers of Lutsi as well as their family background and the sources of their language knowledge, in order to show the paths by which Lutsi language knowledge – even if only of a fragmentary sort – has ...
Uldis Balodis
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Ujfalvy’s place in the development of Finno-Ugrian language studies in the second half of the 19th century in France [PDF]
The article presents the work of Charles Eugène de Ujfalvy de Mező-Kövesd [Hung. Mezőkövesdi Ujfalvy Károly Jenő] (1842–1904), still less known French-Hungarian researcher, who played an important role as an initiatior of the Finno-Ugrian language ...
Piechnik, Iwona
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The Finnic Tetrameter – A Creolization of Poetic Form?
This article presents a new theory on the origins of the common Finnic tetrameter as a poetic form (also called the Kalevala-meter, regilaul meter, etc.).
- Frog
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Baltic context of some Estonian periphrastic causative constructions
I discuss 4 Estonian periphrastic causative constructions based on laskma, andma, panema, and sundima with respect to semantic shift from non-causative to causative use.
Jurgis Pakerys
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Cross-Categorial Case = Cross-Categorial Case [PDF]
A kutatás számos újdonságot derített ki a gazdag esetrendszerekkel rendelkező nyelvekről, valamint a kognitív és a nyelvi logikák közötti határokról. A nyelvtankönyvekben általában az eset (-ban, -ról, stb.) a főnévhez kapcsolódik (ház-ban, ház-ról, stb.)
Tamm, Anne
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Real Language, Real Literature: Problems of Authenticity in Modern Finnic Minority Literatures [PDF]
Alongside the nation-state languages Finnish and Estonian, their sister varieties - such as Meänkieli in Sweden, Kven in Norway, Karelian in Finland and Russia, Veps in Russia, or Võro in southern Estonia - are now either recognized or striving for recognition as minority languages.
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Forgotten Laxdæla poetry : a study and an edition of Tyrfingur Finnsson's Vísur uppá Laxdæla sögu [PDF]
The paper discusses the metre and the diction of a previously unpublished small poem about characters of Laxdæla saga, composed in 18th century. The stanzas are ostensibly in skaldic dróttkvætt; the analysis shows it to be an imitation of the classical ...
Sverdlov, Ilya, Vanherpen, Sofie
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Historical phonology from Proto-Finnic to Proto-Livonian [PDF]
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Kallio, P.
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