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Livonian place names: documentation, problems, and opportunities
Eesti ja Soome-ugri Keeleteaduse Ajakiri, 2020 Livonian is one of the most endangered languages in Europe. Place names of Livonian origin are found not only where Livonian was recently spoken, but also in territories historically inhabited by Livonians across Latvia.
Valts Ernštreits
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Eesti ja Soome-ugri Keeleteaduse Ajakiri, 2016 This article discusses developments affecting Livonian during the last decade. It describes actions to promote Livonian during this period, for example, the International Year of Livonian Language and Culture and also discusses the status of Livonian in ...
Valts Ernštreits
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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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Grammatical changes caused by contact between Livonian and Latvian
Eesti ja Soome-ugri Keeleteaduse Ajakiri, 2014 The article provides insight into the process of various grammatical changes in Livonian and Latvian that have taken place as a result of prolonged contact between the languages.
Valts Ernštreits, Gunta Kļava
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Dundaga parish oronyms (hill names) of Livonian origin in Juris Plāķis’ Latvian toponym publication
Eesti ja Soome-ugri Keeleteaduse Ajakiri, 2014 Each less known addition to the collection of authentic Livonian language materials is very valuable, and a small contribution can also be made by Juris Plāķis’ publication about Latvian, i.e., Courland toponyms, among which Livonian ones can be found as
Ojārs Bušs
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Non-modal phonation associated with stød vowels in Livonian
Eesti ja Soome-ugri Keeleteaduse Ajakiri, 2018 Livonian is unique among the Finnic languages in possessing a two-way tonal contrast in primary stressed syllables. Observed already in the earliest linguistic descriptions of Livonian, this two-way contrast between stressed syllables with stød (also ...
Uldis Balodis
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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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Eesti ja Soome-ugri Keeleteaduse Ajakiri, 2017 The present article studies the usage of the Estonian verb jääda and Livonian īedõ in various grammatical constructions. Although in both languages they can be attested to convey REMAIN and CHANGE, there are differences in their use depending on the ...
Miina Norvik, Külli Prillop
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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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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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