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Yiddish varieties in the Livonian contact area
Eesti ja Soome-ugri Keeleteaduse Ajakiri, 2022 The aim of this article is to discuss the Yiddish varieties of Courland and Estonia in the general context of the co-territorial languages: Baltic German, Latvian, Livonian, and Estonian. As a rule, discussion of Yiddish in the region is mostly based on
Anna Verschik
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The South Estonian language islands in the context of the Central Baltic area
Eesti ja Soome-ugri Keeleteaduse Ajakiri, 2021 This article offers a comparative analysis of several morphosyntactic and phonological features in the South Estonian language islands: Leivu, Lutsi, and Kraasna.
Miina Norvik +6 more
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Eesti ja Soome-ugri Keeleteaduse Ajakiri, 2022 Today the Livonian core area includes 14 coastal villages on the northern Courland peninsula in the northwest of Latvia. Yet, the manifestations of Livonian intangible heritage can be observed in several cultural landscapes as Livonians once inhabited ...
Lolita Ozoliņa +3 more
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Livonian polar questions in their areal context
Eesti ja Soome-ugri Keeleteaduse Ajakiri, 2022 This paper analyses strategies for forming polar questions and their historical sources in the two main varieties of Livonian – Courland Livonian and Salaca Livonian.
Miina Norvik +3 more
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The l-cases in Courland Livonian
Eesti ja Soome-ugri Keeleteaduse Ajakiri, 2018 Courland Livonian is the only Finnic language where the habitive expressions of giving, taking, and having do not use the so-called l-cases, but instead the dative, the elative or a postposition. As the l-cases mostly only occur in a number of fossilised
Rogier Blokland, Nobufumi Inaba
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The relationship between Salaca Livonian and Courland Livonian dialects
Eesti ja Soome-ugri Keeleteaduse Ajakiri, 2014 The article examines the relationship between the two prominent forms of Livonian: Salaca Livonian, spoken on the territory of historical Livonia, and Courland Livonian.
Karl Pajusalu
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Verbiprefiksid Salatsi liivi keeles
Eesti ja Soome-ugri Keeleteaduse Ajakiri, 2017 Artikkel käsitleb Salatsi liivi verbiprefiksite esinemist Johann Andreas Sjögreni materjalide põhjal. Arvestades Kuramaa liivi vastavaid uurimusi ja asjaolu, et Sjögreni ajal oli Salatsi liivi juba väljasurev keel, oleks ootuspärane verbiprefiksite ...
Eberhard Winkler
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Main features of the Livonian sound system and pronunciation
Eesti ja Soome-ugri Keeleteaduse Ajakiri, 2016 The aim of this article is to give an overview of the Livonian sound system and pronunciation. Regarding Livonian dialectal variation, the main difference is between East and West Livonian, while Central Livonian forms a transition area. The basis of the
Tuuli Tuisk
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Eesti ja Soome-ugri Keeleteaduse Ajakiri, 2014 The article deals with loanword strata in Livonian. The first part of the article compares loanword strata in Courland Livonian to those of Salaca Livonian with regard to source language (Middle Low German, Latvian, High German, and Russian) and parts of
Eberhard Winkler
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Historical Phonology from Proto-Finnic to Proto-Livonian
Eesti ja Soome-ugri Keeleteaduse Ajakiri, 2016 This article serves as an attempt to reconstruct the approximate chronological order of the major sound laws between (Late) Proto-Finnic and Proto-Livonian.
Petri Kallio
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