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Shades of empire: Evidence from Swedish and Polish–Lithuanian partitions in the Baltics
The Economic History Review, Volume 79, Issue 1, Page 342-376, February 2026.Abstract In this study, we explore the long‐run effects of Swedish and Polish–Lithuanian imperial legacies in the Baltic region. Using a robust regression discontinuity design, we identify persistent differences in socio‐economic development across the South Livonia–Courland and the South Livonia–Lettgallia borders that emerged as a result of the ...
Theocharis N. Grigoriadis, Alise Vitola
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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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Holocene Land‐Use and Climate Forcing of Ombrotrophic Peatland Dynamics in Northwest Estonia
Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, Volume 130, Issue 12, December 2025.Abstract We present a high‐resolution, multi‐proxy record from Mustjärve bog, northwest Estonia, covering the past ∼2,500 years. By integrating paleoecological, historical, and climate data, we evaluate how climate and land use shaped peatland hydrology, vegetation, and carbon dynamics.
Harry Roberts +9 more
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Livonian Canons and Challenge of the Reformation [PDF]
, 2019 The article examines five Livonian cathedral chapters — Riga, Dorpat, Osilia, Curonia and Reval — during the Reformation era (1522–1566): from the beginning of Livonian Reformation to the dissolution of the Chapter of Riga.
Maasing, Madis
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The Role of Contact in Explaining Linguistic Convergence1
Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 3, Page 479-513, November 2025.Abstract In this paper, I explore the question of how linguistic convergence emerges and what the role of contact might be. My case study is the spread of headed relative clauses built around wh‐relative markers in the Standard Average European languages.
Nikolas Gisborne
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LähivõrdlusiItämerensuomalaisten kielten keskinäisen ymmärrettävyyden tutkimus on osoittanut, että kielten äidinkieliset puhujat luottavat itämerensuomalaisten kielten samankaltaisuuteen pyrkiessään ymmärtämään sukukieltä.
Aleksi Palokangas
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Representation of the Livonian clergy in 13th–16th century sigillographic sources [PDF]
, 2021 The paper focuses on the investigation of the sigillographic sources — pendant wax seals, that belonged to the representatives of Livonian Bishops and Archbishops of Riga.
Jekele, Ilona
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Syntactic and aspectual functions of Latvian verbal prefixes in Livonian
, 2019 This paper presents an analysis of an assumed contact-induced change in the Livonian modes of expressing perfective aspect: the adoption of Latvian-origin verbal prefixes expressing perfective aspect.
Jantunen, Santra
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Eesti ja Soome-ugri Keeleteaduse Ajakiri, 2016 Using vocabulary examples from the letters of the only two editors of the 1930s Livonian language newspaper “Līvli”, this article shows that it is possible to find new words in sources which have been little utilized up until now in linguistic studies ...
Renāte Blumberga
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Reexamining Latvian lake names ending in -eris, -ēris, and -ieris [PDF]
Linguistica UralicaThis article discusses Latvian lake names ending in -eris, -Äris, and -ieris as names of possible Finnic origin. The article is an inventory of limnonyms â names of lakes and ponds â ending in -eris, -Äris, and -ieris, i.e.
Anta Trumpa, Valts Ernštreits
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