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The Role of Contact in Explaining Linguistic Convergence1
Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 3, Page 479-513, November 2025.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
Kyklos, Volume 78, Issue 4, Page 1496-1513, November 2025.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
Orbis Litterarum, Volume 80, Issue 4, Page 370-394, August 2025.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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The Inverse Agreement Constraint in Uralic languages [PDF]
, 2013 The paper aims to answer the question why object–verb agreement is blocked in Hungarian, Tundra Nenets, Selkup, and Nganasan if the object is a first or second person pronoun.
É. Kiss, Katalin
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Towards a semantic typology of specific determiners [PDF]
, 2017 This paper investigates properties of a class of determiners which can be loosely la- belled specific in that their distribution falls in between maximally-quantifying definite determiners and indefinites which only contribute existential quantification.
Simonenko, Alexandra
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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]
, 2016 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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Dairy Terms in Languages of the Ural-Volga Region: A Linguistic Geographical Aspect
Oriental StudiesIntroduction. The article deals with names of dairy products used by peoples inhabiting the Ural-Volga Region. Goals. The study seeks to identify general (characteristic of the Ural-Volga peoples at large), genetic (characteristic of a specific language ...
Rimma T. Muratova, Ildar R. Vildanov
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Scandinavian Journal of Caring Sciences, Volume 38, Issue 3, Page 648-656, September 2024.Abstract Background It is important to map the clinical competence of newly graduated nurses in Nordic countries. The use of a common Nordic instrument could provide insights into nurses' levels of self‐assessed clinical competence and perceptions of their need for professional development.
Anna Anåker +7 more
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Наименования домового в диалектах коми-зырянского языка [Designations of House Spirits in the Dialects of Komi-Zyrian] [PDF]
Linguistica UralicaThe paper provides linguistic analysis of more than 40 mythonyms denoting the house spirit in the Komi-Zyryan language. Among the analyzed names both original lexical units (separate lexemes and phrases) and those borrowed from Russian folk dialects are ...
Evgenia Aibabina, Olga Nekrasova
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Sohranenie jazykov i finno-ugorskij mir. Language Maintenance and Finno-Ugric World; pp. 127-142 [PDF]
Linguistica Uralica, 2009 The article focusses on various ethnolinguistic consequences of the new, postmodern world order and its implications on Finno-Ugric and Uralic languages in particular.
Mart Rannut
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