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International Journal of Literary Linguistics, 2016 This article analyzes the representation of linguistic variation in the Finnish translations of four Swedish coming-of-age stories depicting migrant or minority perspectives: Mikael Niemi’s 2000 Popular Music from Vittula, Jonas Hassen Khemiri’s 2003 Ett
Simo Määttä
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Holistic corpus-based dialectology [PDF]
, 2011 This paper is concerned with sketching future directions for corpus-based dialectology. We advocate a holistic approach to the study of geographically conditioned linguistic variability, and we present a suitable methodology, 'corpusbased dialectometry',
Szmrecsanyi, Benedikt, Wolk, Christoph
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По прочтению скандинавских переводов Б. Акунина
(On Scandinavian Translations of B. Akunin)
Poljarnyj Vestnik: Norwegian Journal of Slavic Studies, 2003 The name of B. Akunin appeared on the Russian literary market five years ago. The author Grigory Tkhartishvili, a well-known man of letters, translator and a connoisseur of Japanese language and culture, is now known all over the world, and translations ...
Olga Komarova
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A Scandinavian Island in a Slavonic Linguistic Environment. The Dialect of Gammalsvenskby: Nouns
Slovene, 2013 This paper initiates a series of publications on the morphology of the dialect of Staroshvedskoye (Sw. Gammalsvenskby), which is the only surviving Scandinavian dialect on the territory of the former Soviet Union.
Alexander E. Mankov
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Zilbes intonāciju stabilitāte divu paaudžu laikā
Baltistica, 2011 STABILITY OF SYLLABLE INTONATION IN TWO GENERATIONS Material for the history of Latvian intonationsSummaryThe purpose of this study is to investigate: 1) the retention of the Latvian language syllable intonation in the course of an individual's lifetime,
Velta Rūķe-Draviņa
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Écart entre la norme et l’usage : le cas du finnois [PDF]
Echo des Etudes Romanes, 2015 Finland was a Swedish province from the 13th century until 1809, when it was annexed by the Russian Empire as an autonomous Grand Duchy. In spite of the annexation, the country preserved its administrative and legislative institutions.
Havu Jukka
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The dialect of Gammalsvenskby: compiling a dictionary of an unexplored language (slō — slǟp ˈǖt) [PDF]
Вестник Православного Свято-Тихоновского гуманитарного университета: Сериа III. ФилологияThe dialect of the village of Gammalsvenskby (Rus. Старошведское; current Ukrainian name Змiïвка) belongs historically to the Swedish dialects of Estonia, which were spoken before World War II in the Noarootsi peninsula (Sw.
Alexander Mankov
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‘Pitch accent’ and prosodic structure in Scottish Gaelic: Reassessing the role of contact [PDF]
, 2015 This paper considers the origin of ‘pitch accents’ in Scottish Gaelic with a view to evaluating the hypothesis that this feature was borrowed from North Germanic varieties spoken by Norse settlers in medieval Scotland. It is shown that the ‘pitch accent’
Pavel Iosad
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General linguistics and Indo-European reconstruction [PDF]
, 2010 There is good reason to be ambivalent about the usefulness of general considerations in linguistic reconstruction. As a heuristic device, a theoretical framework can certainly be helpful, but the negative potential of aprioristic considerations must not ...
Kortlandt, Frederik H. H.
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