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Compound formation principles in Livonian
Eesti ja Soome-ugri Keeleteaduse Ajakiri, 2018 Compounding is one of the most productive types of Livonian word formation. Compounds typically are synthetic and contain one or more modifiers, which follow the head of the compound. Most compound nouns have a singular genitive modifier.
Valts Ernštreits
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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 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 +2 more
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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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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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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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