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Livonian polar questions in their areal context [PDF]
, 2022 This paper analyses strategies for forming polar questions and their historical sources in the two main varieties of Livonian - Courland Livonian and Salaca Livonian.
Metslang, Helle +7 more
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Enlightenment Influences on Lutheran Liturgical Life in Livonia in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries [PDF]
Acta Historica Tallinnensia, 2022 This article examines the influence of the Enlightenment on the liturgical life of the Livonian Lutheran Church in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, when many clergymen set aside traditional liturgical forms and introduced new ones ...
Darius Petkūnas
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The Economic History Review, Volume 76, Issue 4, Page 1333-1356, November 2023., 2023 Abstract By relying on longitudinal data on two rural parishes in the Russian Baltic province of Livland, the article analyses two questions concerning famine's short‐run effects on mortality in a manorial system: (1) whether there is evidence of a social gradient in mortality during the famine of 1844–6 and (2) whether the manors could protect the ...
Kersti Lust +2 more
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Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 120, Issue 1, Page 103-127, March 2022., 2022 Abstract It has long been noticed that the Slavic superlative prefix nai‐/naj‐ comprises two components: *na + *i. The former can be identified with the preposition Sl na ‘on(to)’ which developed an intensifying meaning when used as a prefix. The origin of the second component, on the other hand, has not been determined satisfactorily so far.
Florian Wandl
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The Loanword mei(j)u in Finnic Languages; pp. 161-171 [PDF]
Linguistica Uralica, 2014 The custom of bringing home young birches and green branches for spring/summer festivities has been practised by Proto-Finnic as well as by Germanic peoples ever since pre-Christian times.
Vilja Oja
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The Temporal Structure of Livonian Tri-, Tetra- and Pentasyllabic Words; pp. 177-195 [PDF]
Linguistica Uralica, 2015 The article focuses on Livonian trisyllabic, tetrasyllabic and pentasyllabic words, comparing the temporal structures of non-initial syllables and secondary-stressed feet.
Tuuli Tuisk
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Lutsi speakers and rememberers in the late 20th and early 21st centuries
Eesti ja Soome-ugri Keeleteaduse Ajakiri, 2021 This article describes the language of the last speakers of Lutsi as well as their family background and the sources of their language knowledge, in order to show the paths by which Lutsi language knowledge – even if only of a fragmentary sort – has ...
Uldis Balodis
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Australian Economic Papers, Volume 59, Issue 4, Page 319-335, December 2020., 2020 Abstract This study focuses on the creation of economic innovation out of tradition in small–medium‐size hospitality industry enterprises in the north‐eastern part of Thailand. We looked at the role of the roots of the business on its development and the roots vary from existing old traditional accommodations, to accommodations that developed out of a ...
Adisak Suvittawat
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Development, Research and Sources of Written Livonian; pp. 55-67 [PDF]
Linguistica Uralica, 2012 Written Livonian started forming in the mid-19th century, when the first more comprehensive language studies as well as editions containing language samples began to be published.
Valts Ernštreits
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A Few More Possible Traces of the Lost Language Chain of North-East Europe [PDF]
Linguistica Uralica, 2022 There are numerous exceptional similarities between some of the east- and southward Finnic languages and Permic languages, in particular in case of the Veps, South-Estonian and Komi languages.
Ago Künnap
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