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Methods for expanding the Livonian lexicon

Eesti ja Soome-ugri Keeleteaduse Ajakiri, 2016
This article explores opportunities for expanding the vocabulary of Livonian through compounds, borrowings, derived words, and calques. It is clear that these methods have been effectively used already throughout the entire period of development of the ...
Valts Ernštreits
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Livonian features in Estonian dialects

Eesti ja Soome-ugri Keeleteaduse Ajakiri, 2016
This article presents linguistic innovations which are typical of both Courland and Salaca Livonian and are also known in the neighbouring Estonian dialect areas. These innovative features are phonological, morphological, and morphosyntactic.
Patrick O’Rourke, Karl Pajusalu
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Livonian in the linguistic landscape

Eesti ja Soome-ugri Keeleteaduse Ajakiri, 2022
In the context of endangered languages, the linguistic landscape is viewed as an effective way of expressing the symbolic value of a language and enhancing language awareness.
Gunta Kļava, Valts Ernštreits
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The order between productivity and non-productivity – are Livonian frequentative verbs derivatives or lexicalised?

Eesti ja Soome-ugri Keeleteaduse Ajakiri, 2014
This paper takes a look at productive part of derivation of verbs in Finnic languages, frequentative verbs that have an l-derivational suffix in Livonian and how they occur and are constructed. The research is based on data of 15 different l-suffix verbs.
Santra Jantunen
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Notes on an obsolete tensed negative pronoun construction in Livonian

Eesti ja Soome-ugri Keeleteaduse Ajakiri, 2022
In language contact situations indefinite pronouns are susceptible to borrowing and/or calquing, and Livonian, which has been under strong influence of Latvian, is no exception.
Rogier Blokland
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The Livonian language as used in letters in the 1930s: a view into the correspondence of the editors of “Līvli”

Eesti ja Soome-ugri Keeleteaduse Ajakiri, 2016
Using vocabulary examples from the letters of the only two editors of the 1930s Livonian language newspaper “Līvli”, this article shows that it is possible to find new words in sources which have been little utilized up until now in linguistic studies ...
Renāte Blumberga
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Delights and distractions: descriptions and vocabulary in the 1927 and 1928 Livonian ethnographic expedition materials of Ferdinand Linnus

Eesti ja Soome-ugri Keeleteaduse Ajakiri, 2018
Estonian researcher Ferdinand Linnus (1895–1942) was the first professional ethnologist to work with the Livonians. During three expeditions in 1927 and 1928, he spent seven months in the Livonian villages and recorded his observations and consultant ...
Renāte Blumberga
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The Livonian-Estonian-Latvian Dictionary as a threshold to the era of language technological applications

Eesti ja Soome-ugri Keeleteaduse Ajakiri, 2014
This article outlines the multiple use of electronic source materials from the Livonian-Estonian-Latvian Dictionary of 2012 in a “Kone Foundation” funded project for developing finite-state morphological parsers.
Jack Rueter
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The essive in Livonian

Eesti ja Soome-ugri Keeleteaduse Ajakiri, 2016
In Livonian, there is a small set of word forms denoting locality or time and answering the questions where? and when?, and can be considered forms of the essive case on the basis of their case endings just as similar forms in other Finnic languages. The
Tiit-Rein Viitso
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The supine inessive construction in Salaca Livonian

Eesti ja Soome-ugri Keeleteaduse Ajakiri, 2018
The supine inessive form in Salaca Livonian appears in a copular construction or as a sole predicate, and is usually associated with progressive and futurate readings.
Miina Norvik, Helle Metslang, Karl Pajusalu   +2 more
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