Results 41 to 50 of about 7,935 (216)

Indo-Uralic and Altaic [PDF]

, 2010
Elsewhere I have argued that the Indo-European verbal system can be understood in terms of its Indo-Uralic origins because the reconstructed Indo-European endings can be derived from combinations of Indo-Uralic morphemes by a series of well-motivated ...
Kortlandt, Frederik H. H.
core  

Expression of Stimuli in Buryat Emotion Causation Constructions

Монголоведение
Goals. This paper discusses strategies of expressing Stimuli in Buryat emotive causative constructions. Results. We argue that a series of such constructions can be seen as a system that allows the speaker to put different components of the Stimulus ...
Elena K. Skribnik
doaj   +1 more source

Nivkh as a Uralo-Siberian language [PDF]

, 2010
In his magnificent book on the language relations across Bering Strait (1998), Michael Fortescue does not consider Nivkh (Gilyak) to be a Uralo-Siberian language.
Kortlandt, Frederik H. H.
core  

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

Indo-Uralic consonant gradation [PDF]

, 2010
Koivulehto and Vennemann have recently (1996) revived Posti’s theory (1953) which attributed Finnic consonant gradation to Germanic influence, in particular to the influence of Verner’s law. This theory disregards the major differences between Finnic and
Kortlandt, Frederik H. H.
core  

Linguistic Diversification and Rates of Change: Insights From a Diverse Sample of Sociolinguistic Studies

Language and Linguistics Compass, Volume 19, Issue 6, November/December 2025.
ABSTRACT Language diversification and change can be studied using phylogenetic modelling of families over thousands of years, or by close observation of changes unfolding over a few decades at the community level. While the phylogenetic approach uses data from hundreds of languages to make cross‐linguistic generalisations, community‐level studies of ...
John Mansfield
wiley   +1 more source

Uralist Aleksei Burõkin – ühe polühistori panus soome-ugri ja samojeedi rahvaste folkloori, etnoloogia ja keelte uurimisse [PDF]

Mäetagused
The article gives an overview of the contribution of Alexey Burykin (1954–2021), doctor of philology and history, to the study of the languages, folklore and ethnology of the Finno-Ugric and Samoyed peoples.
Szilárd Tibor Tóth
doaj   +1 more source

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
doaj   +1 more source

C. C. Uhlenbeck on Indo-European, Uralic and Caucasian [PDF]

, 2010
In his early years, C. C. Uhlenbeck was particularly interested in the problem of the Indo-European homeland (1895, 1897). He rejected Herman Hirt’s theory (1892) that the words for ‘birch’, ‘willow’, ‘spruce’, ‘oak’, ‘beech’ and ‘eel’ point to Lithuania
Kortlandt, Frederik H. H.
core  

An Algorithm For Building Language Superfamilies Using Swadesh Lists [PDF]

, 2020
The main contributions of this thesis are the following: i. Developing an algorithm to generate language families and superfamilies given for each input language a Swadesh list represented using the international phonetic alphabet (IPA) notation. ii. The
Mutabazi, Bill
core   +1 more source