On the Uralic (*)m-Accusative [PDF]
Linguistica Uralica, 2022 A language universal supposed by L. Palmaitis is worded as follows: "In those systems where the special form of accusative is attested, the category of gender does exist." A. P.
Ago Künnap
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Genes reveal traces of common recent demographic history for most of the Uralic-speaking populations [PDF]
Genome Biology, 2018 Background The genetic origins of Uralic speakers from across a vast territory in the temperate zone of North Eurasia have remained elusive. Previous studies have shown contrasting proportions of Eastern and Western Eurasian ancestry in their ...
Kristiina Tambets +35 more
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’Habere’ «po-ural'ski». ’Habere’ in Uralic; pp. 161-177 [PDF]
Linguistica Uralica, 2008 The paper discusses the modes of expressing the habitive (or existential-possessive) structure ('somebody has something') and the possessive attributive construction ('somebody's something') in Uralic languages, their morphological structures and the ...
László Honti
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Rhyme Correspondences between Sinitic and Uralic Languages: On the Example of the Finnish -ala and -aja Rhymes; pp. 94-108 [PDF]
Linguistica Uralica, 2014 The present study explores rhyme correspondences between Finnic (~ Uralic) and Sinitic languages, taking the Finnish -ala and -aja rhymes as an example.
Jingyi Gao
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Polar Interrogatives in Uralic Languages. A Typopogical Perspective; pp. 1-21 [PDF]
Linguistica Uralica, 2011 The paper surveys the domain of polar interrogation in the Uralic language family in a typological perspective. An overview of the ways in which polar interrogation is marked in the worldâs languages is presented and the encoding of the domain in ...
Matti Miestamo
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THE INTENSIVE CONTROVERSY ON CHINESE HISTORICAL PHONOLOGY: REFUTATION OF THE LIQUID MEDIAL FOR DIVISION-2 IN OLD CHINESE [PDF]
Trames, 2021 The present paper reports the intensive controversy on Chinese historical phonology that broke out in 2002. After sorting through over 150 Chinese papers on the intensive controversy by the Sino-linguistsâ side and the descriptivistsâ side, the ...
Jingyi Gao
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Distances among Uralic and Other Northern Eurasian Languages [PDF]
Linguistica Uralica, 2022 The present occurrence or non-occurrence of 46 structural features is analyzed in language groups ranging from Finnic to Eskimo-Aleut. Normalized measures of commonalities and distances between two languages are developed and used for graphical ...
Rein Taagepera, Ago Künnap
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On etymology of Sinitic, Indo-European and Uralic terms for 'star' supported by regular sound correspondences [PDF]
Archaeoastronomy and Ancient Technologies, 2020 Using etymological methods, the present study has researched four Sinitic and Germanic shared (Sino-Germanic) etymologies (etyma) and two Sinitic and Uralic shared (Sino-Uralic) etyma. Two of the Sino-Germanic etyma form a rhyme correspondence.
Gao, J.
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Identification of the Etymon of Indo-European 'Moist', Sinitic 'South', Tibeto-Burman 'Sun, Day, Sky' and Hungarian nap 'Sun, Day' [PDF]
Archaeoastronomy and Ancient Technologies, 2021 Using etymological methods, the present study has identified two Sinitic and Germanic shared (Sino-Germanic) etymologies (etyma):【南, 陰】. These two etyma form a rhyme correspondence.
Gao, J.
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Sino-Uralic etymology for 'Jupiter, year' supported by rhyme correspondence [PDF]
Archaeoastronomy and Ancient Technologies, 2020 Using etymological methods, the present study has identified seven Sinitic and Uralic shared etymologies (etyma). Three of them form a rhyme correspondence. Two of them form an onset correspondence. Four of them form another rhyme correspondence.
Gao, J.
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