Uniparental Genetic Heritage of Belarusians: Encounter of Rare Middle Eastern Matrilineages with a Central European Mitochondrial DNA Pool [PDF]
Ethnic Belarusians make up more than 80% of the nine and half million people inhabiting the Republic of Belarus. Belarusians together with Ukrainians and Russians represent the East Slavic linguistic group, largest both in numbers and territory ...
A Fechner +94 more
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Foreword to the Special Issue on Uralic Languages
In this introduction we have tried to present concisely the history of language technology for Uralic languages up until today, and a bit of a desiderata from the point of view of why we organised this special issue.
Tommi A Pirinen +5 more
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Rethinking case marking and case alternation in Estonian [PDF]
In this paper, we argue for a view of case marking that does not treat case as the passive realisation of other morpho-syntactic properties of a construction but as independently bringing information to a clause.
Abney +44 more
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Polar Interrogatives in Uralic Languages. A Typopogical Perspective; pp. 1-21 [PDF]
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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Morphophonological Nature of Mari Accentuation as Viewed from the Uralic Perspective; pp. 184-207 [PDF]
This paper analyses the system of accentuation in Mari. Based on the data collected in the village of Staryj Torjal, the author argues that Mari stress cannot be described only on the phonetic/phonological level.
Fedor Rozhanskiy
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Seinsverben und Kopulae im Uralischen [Verbs for ’be’ and Copulas in Uralic Languages]; pp. 241-272 [PDF]
Like in Indo-European languages a lot of suppletion is observed in the morphology of âbeâ verbs in the Uralic languages. In both language families those verbs are the main option for a copula, but not the only one.
László Honti
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Studies in Uralic Etymology I: Saami Etymologies; pp. 161-174 [PDF]
This paper is the first part in a series of studies that present additions to the corpus of etymological comparisons between the Uralic languages, drawing data from all the major branches of the language family.
Luobbal Sámmol Sámmol Ánte
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Tracking Typological Traits of Uralic Languages in Distributed Language Representations [PDF]
Although linguistic typology has a long history, computational approaches have only recently gained popularity. The use of distributed representations in computational linguistics has also become increasingly popular.
Augenstein, Isabelle, Bjerva, Johannes
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Europe: So Many Languages, So Many Cultures [PDF]
The number of different languages in Europe by far exceeds the number of countries. All European countries have national languages, and in nearly all of them there are minority languages as well, whereas all major languages have dialects.
Steinhauer, H. (Hein)
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Since the early 19th century, linguists have collected enough linguistic data to draw a remarkably stable Uralic language family tree. However, the traditional Uralic language family tree has two main problems.
Peter Z. Revesz
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