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Constructing the perception of ‘annoying’ words and phrases in interaction: An analysis of delegitimisation strategies used in interviews and online discussions in Finnish

Open Linguistics, 2023
This study examines the linguistic metadiscourse on expressions perceived as ‘annoying’ and the strategies used to justify this perception. Two different types of data are examined in which verbal hygiene is practised in interaction: language biography ...
Priiki Katri
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Mediated receptive multilingualism: Comprehension of Finnish via Estonian by Russian-dominant upper secondary school students

Eesti Rakenduslingvistika Ühingu Aastaraamat, 2023
This study deals with mediated receptive multilingualism in comprehension of Finnish by Russian-dominant upper secondary school students in Estonia. The objective of the experiment is to analyse whether students with Russian as L1 and Estonian as L2 ...
Tatjana Nikitina
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The Morphology of Mari Negation; pp. 32-43 [PDF]

Linguistica Uralica, 2016
Mari — like most of the cognate Finno-Ugric/Uralic languages — is using negative auxiliary as means of negation. Yet on the surface it differs very much from its close cognate, Finnish.
Péter Simoncsics
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Suomenkielisten idiomien ymmärtäminen – virolaisten päättelystrategioista

Lähivõrdlusi, 2022
Tässä artikkelissa kuvataan niitä strategioita, joita vironkieliset käyttävät ratkoessaan sukukielisten idiomien merkityksiä. Tarkastelun kohteena on kyselytutkimuksen avulla kerätty aineisto. Kyselytutkimukseen osallistui kaksi ryhmää, opiskelijoiden ja
Pirkko Muikku-Werner
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Become-Constructions in Finnish and Estonian: Diachronic and Contrastive Perspectives; pp. 81-99 [PDF]

Linguistica Uralica, 2015
We focus on so-called become-constructions in Finnish and Estonian. There are many constructions expressing becoming and change. We examine three types of become-construction based on the verbs saada/saama ’to get’ and tulla/tulema ’to (be)come’.
Hanna Jokela, Kirsi-Maria Nummila
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The Loanword mei(j)u in Finnic Languages; pp. 161-171 [PDF]

Linguistica Uralica, 2014
The custom of bringing home young birches and green branches for spring/summer festivities has been practised by Proto-Finnic as well as by Germanic peoples ever since pre-Christian times.
Vilja Oja
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Healthcare professionals on the move: Investing in learning a new language for work

Lähivõrdlusi, 2021
This article investigates the interrelationship of migration and language in the context of the migration experience of healthcare workers migrating from Hungary to Finland and Sweden and becoming speakers of Finnish or Swedish in the process.
Nóra Schleicher, Minna Suni
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Moniverbiset konstruktiot ja oppijansuomen kompleksisuus kielitaidon eri tasoilla

Lähivõrdlusi, 2023
"Verb constructions and complexity across proficiency levels in learner Finnish". Learner language development can be analysed by measuring complexity, accuracy and fluency. Complexity, our focus here, can be defined as the range and sophistication
Taina Mylläri
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Features of acquiring a foreign language (Finnish, Hungarian) by bilinguals

Финно-угорский мир, 2020
Introduction. The article examines the problems arising in the acquisition of Finnish and Hungarian as a foreign language among students who are native speakers of the Mordovian (Moksha or Erzya) and Russian languages, i.e. bilinguals.
Natalya M. Mosina, Nina V. Kazaeva, Svetlana V. Batina   +2 more
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On the use of the adessive case in Tver Karelian

Lähivõrdlusi, 2019
This study provides a descriptive account of the adessive case in the endangered and scarcely documented Tver Karelian variety of the Karelian language.
Nicklas Oranen
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