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Eesti ja soome-ugri keeleteaduse ajakiri. Journal of Estonian and Finno-Ugric Linguistics, 2018 In the 18th century, the Livonian language in Salaca Parish became the subject of academic interest, and also persecution. This article examines the contradictory challenges posed by the Age of Enlightenment, primarily the exclusion of the Livonian ...
Vunk, Aldur
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The forms of third person and demonstrative pronouns in spoken Livonian recordings
Eesti ja Soome-ugri Keeleteaduse Ajakiri, 2022 This article studies the inflectional forms of Livonian third person and demonstrative pronouns as used in spoken language recordings. In Standard Livonian, these words have the nominative singular forms tämā/ta ‘he/she; this’, se ‘this’, tūo ‘that ...
Marili Tomingas
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Amsterdamer Beiträge zur älteren Germanistik, 2019 This paper investigates formulaic syntax in the Livonian Rhymed Chronicle (German: Livländische Reimchronik), a Middle High German (MHG) verse history composed around 1290.
Murray, AV
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The l-cases in Courland Livonian
Eesti ja Soome-ugri Keeleteaduse Ajakiri, 2018 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
Rogier Blokland, Nobufumi Inaba
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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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The South Estonian language islands in the context of the Central Baltic area
Eesti ja Soome-ugri Keeleteaduse Ajakiri, 2021 This article offers a comparative analysis of several morphosyntactic and phonological features in the South Estonian language islands: Leivu, Lutsi, and Kraasna.
Miina Norvik +6 more
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Grammatical changes caused by contact between Livonian and Latvian
Eesti ja Soome-ugri Keeleteaduse Ajakiri, 2014 The article provides insight into the process of various grammatical changes in Livonian and Latvian that have taken place as a result of prolonged contact between the languages.
Valts Ernštreits, Gunta Kļava
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Livonian features in Estonian dialects
Eesti ja Soome-ugri Keeleteaduse Ajakiri, 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.
Patrick O’Rourke, Karl Pajusalu
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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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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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