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Lexical and Social Effects on the Learning and Integration of Inflectional Morphology
Abstract People learn language variation through exposure to linguistic interactions. The way we take part in these interactions is shaped by our lexical representations, the mechanisms of language processing, and the social context. Existing work has looked at how we learn and store variation in the ambient language. How this is mediated by the social
Péter Rácz, Ágnes Lukács
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Language Reconstruction – Applied to the Uralic Languages
After pointing out the shortcomings and methodological weakness of the general theory of linguistic reconstruction, the author disputes the alleged antiquity of Uralic.
Paolo Agostini
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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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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. A recent development is to learn distributed representations of language, such that typologically similar languages are spatially close ...
Bjerva, Johannes, Augenstein, Isabelle
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WE…WITH ANNA: THE INCLUSORY PLURAL PRONOMINAL CONSTRUCTION IN FINNISH AND FENNO‐SWEDISH*
Abstract This article provides a syntactic analysis of the inclusory plural pronominal construction in Fenno‐Swedish and Finnish. In this construction, a plural pronoun has a singular reading: vi …med Anna (literally “we …with Anna”) means ‘Anna and I’. In addition to the plural pronoun, the construction includes a comitative PP.
Klaus Kurki
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Digital Etymological Dictionary of the Oldest Vocabulary of Finnish
This paper presents the new project Digital etymological dictionary of the oldest vocabulary of Finnish (University of Helsinki, funded by the Kone Foundation) and discusses the present state and challenges of the (especially digital) etymological ...
Santeri Junttila +2 more
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Abstract This paper contributes to ongoing scholarly debates on the merits and limitations of computational legal text analysis by reflecting on the results of a research project documenting exceptional COVID‐19 management measures in Europe. The variety of exceptional measures adopted in countries characterized by different legal systems and natural ...
Clara Egger +4 more
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Uralist Aleksei Burõkin – ühe polühistori panus soome-ugri ja samojeedi rahvaste folkloori, etnoloogia ja keelte uurimisse [PDF]
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
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A typology of denominal verb formation strategies
Abstract This article aims to fill a gap in the typological literature by discussing the typology of overt denominal verb formation strategies, that is, morphosyntactic strategies other than conversion/zero‐derivation that are used to derive a verb from a nominal base.
Simone Mattiola, Andrea Sansò
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