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Karelian Anthroponymic Heritage in Russian Zaonezhye [PDF]

Известия Уральского федерального университета. Серия 2: Гуманитарные науки, 2023
This article analyses non-calendar Karelian anthroponyms identified in archival documents from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries on the Zaonezhye Peninsula and testifying to the Karelian heritage of this marker for the culture of the Russian North.
Irma Ivanovna Mullonen
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On the use of the adessive case in Tver Karelian

Lähivõrdlusi, 2019
This study provides a descriptive account of the adessive case in the endangered and scarcely documented Tver Karelian variety of the Karelian language.
Nicklas Oranen
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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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Dialectal attribution of the Karelian language in “Guide and translator to remote outskirts of Russia” by A. V. Starchevsky

Финно-угорский мир, 2022
Introduction. The article examines the Karelian-language material contained in a late XIX century lexicographic edition “Guide and translator to remote outskirts of Russia” by A. V. Starchevsky.
Irina P. Novak, Svetlana V. Nagurnaya
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Half a Century of Onomastic Research in Karelia [PDF]

Вопросы ономастики, 2020
The article marks the 50th anniversary of onomastic research in Karelia which has brought about 12 monographs and dictionaries, as well as several hundred articles.
Ekaterina V. Zakharova, Denis V. Kuzmin, Irma I. Mullonen   +2 more
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Analysis of Karelian Dialect Division Based on Algorithmic Clustering [PDF]

Linguistica Uralica, 2021
The article presents an algorithm for clustering dialects by similarity of data in the dialect atlas of the Karelian language (Бубрих, Беляков, Пунжина 1997). By repeating the procedure we get a hierarchy of dialects.
Irina Novak, Martti Penttonen
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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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Karelian Toponymy in the State Index of Place Names: Mistakes Correction

Вопросы ономастики, 2022
The article tackles the problem that is topical for all areas of Russia with ethnic minority populations: how local toponyms are presented in the State Index of Place Names.
Ekaterina V. Zakharova, Denis V. Kuzmin, Irma I. Mullonen   +2 more
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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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