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Morphological features of the translation of the «God’s Law» (1912) into the Udmurt language

Финно-угорский мир, 2019
Introduction. The relevance of the study lies in the fact that the Udmurt written monuments are studied only partially at the moment. Today more than 400 names of pre-revolutionary Udmurt monuments are known, but most of them are still not described.
Maria P. Bezenova
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Demographic Momentum and Fertility Responses to Pronatalist Policies: The Case of Ethnic Minorities in Russia

Population, Space and Place, Volume 32, Issue 2, March 2026.
ABSTRACT Russia's Maternal Capital policy initially increased total fertility rates, stimulating much discussion on whether it would result in more births or only earlier births. Effects of that policy upon different ethnic groups within Russia, however, have not received systematic attention.
Konstantin Kazenin, Sergei Zakharov, Sunnee Billingsley   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Relative Chaoticity of Natural Languages

Complexity, Volume 2026, Issue 1, 2026.
This paper presents a novel approach to analyzing and grouping natural languages based on the degree of their chaoticity. It clusters 52 languages from 18 language families, according to the value of the entropy–complexity pair, to reveal the chaotic properties of semantic trajectories.
Assel S. Yerbolova, Korney K. Tomashchuk, Alexandra S. Kogan, Nhu Q. Dang, Inna V. Skrynnikova, Vasilii A. Gromov, Tao Zhou   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Udmurt Mad’ Song: Paradox of a Genre [PDF]

, 2011
The genre system of Udmurt folk songs has been researched by scholars many times. The accumulation and publication of new folklore and ethnographic material requires reconsideration of the general concept and definition. The folklore of northern Udmurtia
Nurieva, Irina
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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
wiley   +1 more source

Az inferencialitás kategóriájának leírási problémái az uráli nyelvekben

Jelentés és Nyelvhasználat
Tanulmányunk olyan, az inferencialitás kategóriájával összefüggő definíciós és leíró jellegű problémákat tárgyal, melyek nem csupán az uráli nyelvek kapcsán, hanem tipológiai munkákban is felmerülnek.
Kubitsch, Rebeka, Szeverényi, Sándor
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Playing the sycophant card: The logic and consequences of professing loyalty to the autocrat

American Journal of Political Science, Volume 69, Issue 3, Page 1180-1195, July 2025.
Abstract Despite the centrality of the loyalty–competence framework in research on authoritarian politics, scholars have only focused on material aspects of what elites do in their service to the dictator. Yet nonmaterial aspects such as sycophantically praising the autocrat in speech—a common, everyday practice under authoritarianism, have been ...
Alexander Baturo, Nikita Khokhlov, Jakob Tolstrup   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

From a restricted to full linguistic space: an ‘affirmative action’ strategy for the Udmurt language [PDF]

, 2013
This study analyzes the long-term reasons why Udmurt occupies a restricted linguistic space in the post-Soviet state – the low status of Udmurt, due to Soviet language and other policies; urbanization; population shifts; myths and stereotypes about ...
Williams, Christopher
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The role of Lowering and non-cyclic heads in Udmurt stress placement

, 2023
In this paper, we propose that stress assignment in three different types of verbs in Udmurt (indicatives, stressed on the final syllable, and negated verbs and imperatives, stressed on the initial syllable) is determined by their morphosyntactic ...
Georgieva, Ekaterina, Borise, Lena
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Влияние иных культур в удмуртских названиях божьей коровки [The Influence of Other Cultures Traced in the Names for ­’ladybug’ used in the Udmurt Language]; pp. 134-140 [PDF]

Linguistica Uralica, 2017
The article is devoted to the names of ’ladybug’ in the Udmurt language, which reflect the influence of neighboring cultures. For example, at first glance the ­composite čužanai̯/papa (literally ’maternal grandmother + insect’) is in no doubt
S. Maksimov
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