“A Time to Gather Stones…”: On the Birth of a New Science. Review of the book: Napolskikh, V. V. (2015). Ocherki po etnicheskoi istorii [An Outline of Ethnic History]. Kazan: Kazanskaia nedvizhimost’. [PDF]
The reviewed volume addresses issues related to the origins of Finno-Ugric peoples, their contacts with other languages and ethnic groups, it examines cultural influences and borrowings from different chronological periods as reflected in language ...
Oleg V. Smirnov
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NOMINAL WORD-FORMATION IN THE FINNO-UGRIC LANGUAGES [PDF]
The article examines word-formation in the Finno-Ugric languages. The basic means of derivation in the Finnish, Hungarian and Mordovian (Moksha and Erzya) languages are identified. Special attention is paid to the formation of nouns and adjectives from different parts of speech.
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Finno-Ugric Languages in Russian Education: the changing legal-institutional framework and falling access to native language learning [PDF]
After the collapse of the USSR, not only the former union republics, but also autonomous republics and regions inside post-Soviet Russia adopted extensions of native-language teaching in school as one of the central goals of their national revival and ...
Zamyatin, Konstantin
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This article substantiates the possibility of obtaining data on extinct Finno-Ugric languages of Central Russia through a formalized catalogue of substrate toponyms of Finno-Ugric origin within the historical Merya lands (HML).
Oleg Vitalyevich Smirnov
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The State of the Permic Languages on the Basis of the Terminological Dictionary Project ”Terminologia Scholaris * Школьная tерминология”; pp. 304-313 [PDF]
On the initiative of the institute Collegium Fenno-Ugricum, in 2010â2011 the school terminology of ten subjects in five Finno-Ugric languages of Russia (Erzya, Moksha, Mari, Komi, Udmurt) has been elaborated to provide means for Âwriting school books ...
János Pusztay
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On the Etymology of Lexemes with the Root ринд-/рынд- in the Northern Russian Dialects
This article attempts to find out the origin of a number of homonyms, as well as their correlates (phonetic, lexical-semantic variants, and derived words), i.e ри́нда / ры́нда, ры́н(д)ега / ры́нюга, ринь / рынь, etc.
Lyubov Aleksandrovna Feoktistova
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The Role of Contact in Explaining Linguistic Convergence1
Abstract In this paper, I explore the question of how linguistic convergence emerges and what the role of contact might be. My case study is the spread of headed relative clauses built around wh‐relative markers in the Standard Average European languages.
Nikolas Gisborne
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Trust and Income Among Immigrants in Europe
ABSTRACT Social trust, a key cultural trait influencing economic behavior, plays a critical yet understudied role in immigrant integration. This paper examines how trust, both as an individual disposition and as a culturally inherited norm, relates to the economic integration of immigrants in Europe, measured by household income.
Niclas Berggren +2 more
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Collective value? Finland‐Swedish literature in the Nordic literary prize culture
Abstract Unlike many other minority literatures, Finland‐Swedish literature is very well embodied in the literary prize culture. Statistically, Finland‐Swedish authors are overrepresented among the nominees and recipients of the largest and most prestigious awards in Sweden and Finland, as well as the major joint Nordic literary prizes.
Tomi Riitamaa
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Improving translation for low-resource Finno-Ugric languages with Neural Machine Translation models
Training a good neural machine translation model requires a lot of data. The majority of languages in the world have low amounts of suitable data available for this task.
Tars, Maali
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