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Introductory survey of the South Estonian language islands
The South Estonian language islands – Leivu, Lutsi, Kraasna – are three historically South Estonian-speaking exclaves located not only beyond the borders of Estonia, but also geographically separated from the main body of South Estonian speakers for at ...
Uldis Balodis, Karl Pajusalu
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THE BEAR AND THE YEAR : ON THE ORIGIN OF THE FINNISH LATE IRON AGE FOLK CALENDAR AND ITS CONNECTION TO THE BEAR CULT [PDF]
The role of the bear as a calendric deity among the Finnic and Finno-Ugric peoples echoes it general importance in all aspects of the northern cultures.
Ridderstad, Marianna P.
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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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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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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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Symmetric and asymmetric alternations in direct object encoding [PDF]
This paper examines two different strategies found in direct object encoding on the basis of a sample of 159 languages. In particular, this paper deals with the differences between symmetric (i.e.
Iemmolo, Giorgio
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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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Parameter sharing between dependency parsers for related languages
Previous work has suggested that parameter sharing between transition-based neural dependency parsers for related languages can lead to better performance, but there is no consensus on what parameters to share.
Augenstein, Isabelle +3 more
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The present article gives an overview of the borrowed vocabulary of the Rus- sian dialect of the Kola peninsula, which mostly comes from Finno-Ugric languages.
David Pineda
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