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The l-cases in Courland Livonian
Eesti ja soome-ugri keeleteaduse ajakiri. Journal of Estonian and Finno-Ugric Linguistics, 2020 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 expressions they have received less attention in the literature.
Blokland, Rogier, Inaba, Nobufumi
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Analogical development of Livonian i-adjectives
Eesti ja Soome-ugri Keeleteaduse AjakiriThis article presents both a diachronic and synchronic explanation for the occurrence of the suffix -i in Livonian adjectives. The suffix is prevalent among Livonian adjectives and in most cases it can be derived directly from the Finnic suffix *-in(En),
Patrick O'Rourke
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A century of Livonian studies at the University of Tartu
Eesti ja Soome-ugri Keeleteaduse Ajakiri, 2022 The significance of the Livonian language and culture to Estonians is greater than mere historical closeness. The discipline of Livonian studies has been a part of Estonian national self-definition.
Tuuli Tuisk, Karl Pajusalu
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Livonian features in Estonian dialects
Eesti ja soome-ugri keeleteaduse ajakiri. Journal of Estonian and Finno-Ugric Linguistics, 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. The features are present mainly in western and southwestern Estonia, but also more specifically in areas close ...
Patrick O’Rourke, Karl Pajusalu
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Livonian – the most endangered language in Europe?
Eesti ja Soome-ugri Keeleteaduse Ajakiri, 2014 Drawing on my experience as General Editor of the UNESCO Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger, as well as my own research interest in the Livonian language, the situation of Livonian is here compared with that of some other threatened languages of ...
Christopher Moseley
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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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Curonian linguistic elements in Livonian
Eesti ja soome-ugri keeleteaduse ajakiri. Journal of Estonian and Finno-Ugric Linguistics, 2014 Researchers of Finnic languages have stressed the special position of Livonian among its close relatives due to the great number of Latvian loan elements. The Latvian influence is noteworthy and present in all levels of the language. Baltic influence on Livonian is, however, more diverse both linguistically and chronologically.
Vaba, Lembit
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Eesti ja Soome-ugri Keeleteaduse Ajakiri, 2012 In this article, the names of Clupea harengus membras will be considered in Estonian, (Salaca) Livonian and Latvian (respectively räim, reńǵand reņģe ‘Baltic herring’). It will be shown that the source of all of these words is the Estonian-Swedish strämg
Udo Uibo
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Oskar Looritsa liivi folkloori kogu [PDF]
Mäetagused, 2022 The Estonian Folklore Archives of the Estonian Literary Museum hold a valuable collection of Livonian ethnography and folklore – Oskar Loorits’ collection of Livonian folklore.
Tuuli Tuisk
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The Livonian Jussive: A Corpus Analysis [PDF]
Linguistica Uralica, 2023 Livonian like other Finnic languages has a complex morphological system. Unlike, e.g., Finnish and Estonian, Livonian has not been systematically Âstandardised and thus exhibits vast variability in usage.
Milda Dailidėnaitė
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