Confronting the Extinction Narrative: Diversity research, media, and folk views on language endangerment [PDF]
The presentation is based on experiences from the EU-FP7 research project ELDIA, in which comparative research on the maintenance of linguistic diversity was conducted with a wide range of multilingual minority communities across Europe.
Laakso, Johanna
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What is India speaking: The "Hinglish" invasion [PDF]
While language competition models of diachronic language shift are increasingly sophisticated, drawing on sociolinguistic components like variable language prestige, distance from language centers and intermediate bilingual transitionary populations, in ...
Chand, Vineeta +3 more
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Gaussian process models for geographic controls in phylogenetic trees. [PDF]
Hartmann F, Jäger G.
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The study aims to determine the origin of names designating ‘pain’ and ‘disease’ in the Karelian language. On the one hand, the article analyzes the etymology of dialectisms with the meaning of pain sensations and a state of malaise in the Karelian language in relation to the linguistic and cultural contacts of Karelians and Russians. On the other hand,
Tatjana Vladimirovna Pashkova +1 more
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From Chud to Merya [Review of: Rahkonen, P. (2013). South-Eastern Contact Area of Finnic Languages in the Light of Onomastics. Jyväskylä: Bookwell Oy] [PDF]
The article reviews the work by Pauli Rahkonen devoted to the research of substrate Finno-Ugric hydronymy of the Upper Volga region and adjacent territories where there lived Merya, Muroma, Meshchera and Chud — peoples mentioned in old manuscripts.
Irma I. Mullonen
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Economic Co-operation Across the Finnish-Russian Border - Factors of Sluggish Development and Success of Enterprises [PDF]
The post-Cold War era in Europe in the 1990s has caused people to recognize the complexity of economic development and economic co-operation. The opening of borders has not always meant an increase cross-border economic activities in general.
Rautio, V., Tykkylaeinen, M.
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Антропонимия Карелии. Краткий обзор истории сбора и некоторых направлений современного изучения [Anthroponymy of Karelia. A Brief Overview of the History of Collection and Some Areas of Modern Study] [PDF]
Denis Kuźmin
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The fate of the reform: Russian peasantry in government policy before and after the abolition of serfdom (1830-1890-ies) [PDF]
In this impressive new book, Igor΄ Khristoforov assesses the impact of the 1861 emancipation legislation on rural Russia. How successful were the state’s attempts to reform the countryside in the mid-nineteenth century?
Dennison, Tracy
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Factors predicting willingness to quit snus and cigarette use among young males. [PDF]
Danielsson M +5 more
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Long-term outcome of vestibular function and hearing in children with congenital cytomegalovirus infection: a prospective cohort study. [PDF]
Kokkola E +7 more
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