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Livonian polar questions in their areal context
, 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.
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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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The Effect of Covid-19 on Livonian Language Learning Opportunities
, 2021 This article describes two projects created by the Livonian Institute at the University of Latvia to promote Livonian language learning during the Covid-19 pandemic. The value and role of digital solutions increased during this period, becoming a part of
Kļava, Gunta, Kļava, Gunta,
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Medieval Livonian County Metsepole and the Historical and Linguistic Border between Livonians and Estonians; pp. 253-268 [PDF]
Linguistica Uralica, 2009 The article focuses on the issue of the northern border of Metsepole in the Chronicle of Henry of Livonia and in two earlier treaties from the 13th century.
Urmas Sutrop, Karl Pajusalu
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Introductory survey of the South Estonian language islands
Eesti ja Soome-ugri Keeleteaduse Ajakiri, 2021 The South Estonian language islands – Leivu, Lutsi, Kraasna – are three historically South Estonian-speaking exclaves located not only beyond the borders of Estonia, but also geographically separated from the main body of South Estonian speakers for at ...
Uldis Balodis, Karl Pajusalu
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Survey of Previous Research on Livonian Prosody; 23-28 [PDF]
Linguistica Uralica, 2007 Livonian prosody is unique among the Uralic languages in that it contrasts short and long monophthongs, diphthongs, and triphthongs, prevocalic single and geminate consonants and word-final short and long consonants, word-final short and long consonants,
Tiit-Rein Viitso
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Eesti ja soome-ugri keeleteaduse ajakiri. Journal of Estonian and Finno-Ugric Linguistics, 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 article studies these forms and related forms of the lative, sublative, and excessive case forms ...
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Perifrastic Future Devices in Salaca Livonian; pp. 27-40 [PDF]
Linguistica Uralica, 2012 In Finnic languages, the future is often expressed by means of the present tense. In addition to the present tense, there are also periphrastic devices that convey the future.
Miina Norvik
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“THE NORMAL EXCEPTION”: EDOARDO GRENDI, MICROANALYSIS, AND GENERALIZATIONS*
History and Theory, Volume 65, Issue 2, Page 237-256, June 2026.ABSTRACT “The normal exception” has long been a slogan of microhistory. This oxymoronic phrase is the iconic rendering of an incidental sentence that appeared in a 1977 article by Edoardo Grendi. His article, titled “Micro‐analisi e storia sociale” (Microanalysis and Social History), is cited more often than it is read.
FRANCESCA TRIVELLATO
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Declension Classes in Livonian – a Language-User Abstractive Approach; pp. 1-21 [PDF]
Linguistica Uralica, 2019 This paper aims to present an abstractive study of Livonian declension classes which lends support to the pedagogical analyses offered in Viitso, Ernštreits 2012. In this study I identify and discuss additional inflexional patterns in the language which
Zeprina-Jaz Ainsworth
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