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Evolution and Spread of Politeness Systems in Indo‐European
Abstract In this paper, we investigate the phenomenon of pronominal politeness in the Indo‐European languages and demonstrate that the processes of change of pronominal systems related to politeness follow two evolutionary regimes, one inside the ‘Standard Average European’ (SAE) linguistic area and another outside of it.
Michael Dunn, Kate Bellamy
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The phonetic system is one of the most important aspects of the language. The study of the structure and features of this system allows tracing both the current state and the history of the development of a language.
Mihail V. Mosin, Natalya M. Mosina
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The Finno-Ugric Languages and The Internet Project
This paper describes a Kone Foundation funded project called "The Finno-Ugric Languages and The Internet" together with some of the achieved results. The main activity of the project is to crawl the internet and gather texts written in small Uralic languages.
Jauhiainen, Heidi +2 more
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Participation in sociolinguistic research
Abstract Involving speakers in research on their linguistic practices has been at the core of sociolinguistics since the inception of the field. In contrast to social sciences, however, sociolinguists have rarely addressed the issues surrounding the participation of those involved and engaged in the research process.
Csanád Bodó +7 more
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Introduction. In the languages of different systems, there are many cases when the morphemic structure of a word is not clear. As a result of a comparative analysis of a word with etymologically related words and their reconstructed stems and meanings ...
Mihail V. Mosin, Natalya M. Mosina
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Abstract Research has described several features shared between musical rhythm and speech or language, and experimental studies consistently show associations between performance on tasks in the two domains as well as impaired rhythm processing in children with language disorders.
Enikő Ladányi +2 more
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The Finnish logophoric pronoun hän: a quantitative approach
The paper examines the logophoric use of hän ‘he/she’ in contemporary Finnish conversation data. A logophoric pronoun is a device used in reported speech referring to the original speaker of a reported utterance.
Katri Priiki
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Automatic Generation of Wiktionary Entries for Finno-Ugric Minority Languages [PDF]
Zsanett Ferenczi +2 more
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On the syntax of comitative constructions: the case of Finnish mukana, mukaan ‘with, along’
The topic of this article is the syntax of Finnish comitative markers mukana and mukaan ‘with, along’. Comitative markers express accompaniment relations, which are typically conceived of being asymmetrical: the accompanee is the predominant participant,
Krista Ojutkangas
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Anthroponyms in Finno-Permic Compound Plant Names [PDF]
With reference to Finno-Permic languages (a branch of Finno-Ugric languages excluding Ugric languages), the article analyses compound names of plants (phytonyms) containing Permic languages, which, inter alia, can be explained by the incompleteness of ...
Igor V. Brodsky
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