The Finnish logophoric pronoun hän: a quantitative approach
Eesti ja Soome-ugri Keeleteaduse Ajakiri, 2017 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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Europe: So Many Languages, So Many Cultures [PDF]
, 2011 The number of different languages in Europe by far exceeds the number of countries. All European countries have national languages, and in nearly all of them there are minority languages as well, whereas all major languages have dialects.
Steinhauer, H. (Hein)
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On the syntax of comitative constructions: the case of Finnish mukana, mukaan ‘with, along’
Eesti ja Soome-ugri Keeleteaduse Ajakiri, 2017 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]
Вопросы ономастики, 2017 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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From a restricted to full linguistic space: an ‘affirmative action’ strategy for the Udmurt language [PDF]
, 2013 This study analyzes the long-term reasons why Udmurt occupies a restricted linguistic space in the post-Soviet state – the low status of Udmurt, due to Soviet language and other policies; urbanization; population shifts; myths and stereotypes about ...
Williams, Christopher
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On the Origin of Russian Anthroponyms with the Stems Yamysh- and Yemash- [PDF]
Вопросы ономастики, 2016 The article analyses the surnames Yamyshev and Yemashev attested in one 18th-century Russian regional manuscript Stolp prikhodnoy pyskorskoy denezhnoy kazny 1741 godu (The Pyskor Factory Receipt Book of the Year 1741) (Solikamsk district, Perm province ...
Roman V. Gaidamashko +1 more
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The Finno-Ugric Languages and The Internet Project
Septentrio Conference Series, 2015 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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Finno-Permic Phytonymic Portraits: Centaurea
Oriental Studies, 2018 The paper provides a phytonymic portrait of Centaurea (cornflower) in the Finno-Permic languages that form a branch of the Finno-Ugric language family, the other being that of the Ugric languages.
Igor Brodsky
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The Condition of the Mordvin Languages as Suggested by the Results of the Terminological Dictionary Project ”Terminologia Scholaris * Shkol´naja terminologija”; pp. 278-289 [PDF]
Linguistica Uralica, 2015 On the initiative of the institute Collegium Fenno-Ugricum in 2010â2011 the school terminology of ten school subjects in five Finno-Ugric languages of Russia (Erzya, Moksha, Mari, Komi, Udmurt) has been elaborated to provide the means for writing ...
János Pusztay
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The impact of Finno-Ugric languages in second language research: Looking back and setting goals
Lähivõrdlusi, 2012 This state of the art review aims at discussing the potential relevance of Finno-Ugric languages in the larger context of second language research. Key results received in the studies conducted in the field of Finno-Ugric languages as second languages ...
Minna Suni
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