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Traditional Knowledge and Conservation Priorities of Eurasian Red Squirrel (<i>Sciurus vulgaris</i>) in Finland. [PDF]

Ecol Evol
Eurasian red squirrel (Sciurus vulgaris) has played an important role in Finnish traditional culture and livelihoods from pre‐historic times. Convergence of observations points to the case where the iconic mammal of the northern forests is in decline and migrating to the urban habitats, with a number of important consequences.
Mustonen T.
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A Simple Explanation for Harmonic Word Order. [PDF]

Cogn Sci
Abstract Harmonic word order is a well‐established tendency in natural languages, which has previously been explained as a single ordering rule for all head‐dependent relations. We propose that it can be more parsimoniously explained as an outcome of word‐class frequencies, where the purported “head” is the most frequently instantiated word class in a ...
Mansfield J, Krapp LS.
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Karelian Heritage in the Toponymy of the Southeastern Lake Onega Area [PDF]

Вопросы ономастики, 2015
The article focuses on place names of Karelian origin on the territory of Southeastern Lake Onega region and provides linguistic and historical evidence of Karelians’ migrations to the area in question.
Anton I. Sobolev
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Tradition and ownership

Approaching Religion, 2023
A new dispute about the ownership of Karelian laments emerged in Finland in 2021. The severely endangered Karelian language is the closest relative of Finnish.
Viliina Silvonen, Kati Kallio
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Christian Names of Karelians [PDF]

Вопросы ономастики, 2016
The article analyses the forms of Christian names used in the past and in the present on the territory of the Karelian ethnic group’s settlement — in Finland, as well as in Russian Karelia, Tver and Leningrad regions.
Denis V. Kuzmin
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И ’барин’, и ’господин’ – народные наименования нарыва, фурункула, чирья в диалектах карельского языка [Both ’master’ and ’mister’ — Folk Names for an Abscess, Boil in Dialects of the Karelian Language] [PDF]

Linguistica Uralica, 2021
The article analyzes the origins of the popular names of abscess, boil in dialects of the Karelian language, which were extracted from the dictionaries of the Karelian language, samples of the Karelian speech, as well as the author’s field materials ...
Tatjana Pashkova
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Lexical Interference of Russian and Karelian in the Diachronic Aspect of Language Policy

Дискурс, 2022
Introduction. At the moment the territory of the Russian Federation comprises 138 endangered languages, which determines the relevance of studying the influence of the state’s language policy on the development of the Karelian language.
V. A. Ivanova, L. A. Ulianitckaia
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Use of the Karelian language online: websites in Karelian

AFinLAn vuosikirja, 2022
The use of the Karelian language on the internet has grown strongly over recent decades. The aim of this article is to analyze the visibility of the Karelian language on the internet, focusing on websites using Karelian as the language of the interface.
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‘Bigwig hatred’ and the emergence of the first Scandinavian agrarian‐populist party

Scandinavian Political Studies, Volume 46, Issue 3, Page 144-166, September 2023., 2023
Abstract In the genealogy of the Scandinavian populist‐party family, agrarian populism has been largely neglected and, when discussed at all, it is traced back to Finland in the late 1950s. This paper argues: (i) that agrarian populism long predated the 1950s and that it was politically salient from the decade before Finnish independence in 1917; (ii ...
David Arter
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People with aphasia and their family members proposing joint future activities in everyday conversations: A conversation analytic study

International Journal of Language &Communication Disorders, Volume 58, Issue 2, Page 310-325, March/April 2023., 2023
Abstract Background In everyday conversations, a person with aphasia (PWA) compensates for their language impairment by relying on multimodal and material resources, as well as on their conversation partners. However, some social actions people perform in authentic interaction, proposing a joint future activity, for example, ordinarily rely on a ...
Asta Tuomenoksa, Suzanne Beeke, Anu Klippi   +2 more
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