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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 l-cases in Courland Livonian [PDF]
, 2022 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.
Rogier Blokland, Nobufumi Inaba
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Observations on affricates in Livonian
Eesti ja Soome-ugri Keeleteaduse Ajakiri, 2018 The aim of the current article is to observe affricates in Livonian. Studies on the Finnic languages have described affricates in South Estonian, Veps, Votic, and Karelian, while Livonian affricates are poorly studied.
Tuuli Tuisk
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Expressions of obligation, duty, and necessity in Livonian
Eesti ja Soome-ugri Keeleteaduse Ajakiri, 2014 In Livonian, obligation, duty, and necessity are expressed mainly by means of constructions containing a finite form of the auxiliary verbs piḑīm ‘must’ and piḑīks ‘should have to’, tūlda ‘to come’, lǟ’dõ ‘to go’, vȱlda ‘to be’ and līdõ ‘shall, will ...
Tiit-Rein Viitso
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Livonian social networks and language shift
Eesti ja Soome-ugri Keeleteaduse Ajakiri, 2018 This article presents a study of Livonian social networks in the beginning of the 20th century during a time of language shift. In this study, I examine whether the Livonian communities were experiencing a language shift irrespective of the population ...
Patrick O’Rourke
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Research into Livonian syntax: the results of previous studies and the tasks ahead
Eesti ja Soome-ugri Keeleteaduse Ajakiri, 2016 The objective of this article is to present the main findings of research into Livonian syntax. As is typical of the Finnic languages other than Estonian and Finnish, in the past, syntax-related issues have received little attention.
Miina Norvik
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Change-of-state predicates and their use for expressing the future: the case of Livonian
Eesti ja Soome-ugri Keeleteaduse Ajakiri, 2014 The present article considers change-of-state predicates in Livonian and their possible development into future copulas. The focus is on the verbs īedõ ‘remain, stay; become’, sǭdõ ‘get; become’, and līdõ (synchronically a future copula), but also the ...
Miina Norvik
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Eesti ja Soome-ugri Keeleteaduse Ajakiri, 2018 In the 18th century, the Livonian language in Salaca Parish became the subject of academic interest, and also persecution. This article examines the contradictory challenges posed by the Age of Enlightenment, primarily the exclusion of the Livonian ...
Aldur Vunk
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Areal relations of Indo-European loanwords in Finnic dialects
Eesti ja Soome-ugri Keeleteaduse Ajakiri, 2014 The areas of the distribution of Indo-European loanwords in Finnic dialects are described on many lexical maps of the Atlas Linguarum Fennicarum and the Atlas Linguarum Europae.
Vilja Oja
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