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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
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The Inverse Agreement Constraint in Uralic languages [PDF]
, 2013 The paper aims to answer the question why object–verb agreement is blocked in Hungarian, Tundra Nenets, Selkup, and Nganasan if the object is a first or second person pronoun.
É. Kiss, Katalin
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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
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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
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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.
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Мiryachit: A Culture‐Specific Startle Syndrome in the Saami People
Movement Disorders Clinical Practice, Volume 12, Issue 6, Page 807-816, June 2025.Abstract Background Miryachit is perhaps the most complex and least understood of the culture‐specific startle syndromes that include latah and the jumping Frenchmen of Maine. Objectives We carried out a field study to evaluate startle‐induced paroxysms in the Saami to determine if it is still endemic and, if so, to contrast it with the available ...
Marianna Selikhova +3 more
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The Great Past of Small Peoples (the case of the samoyeds)
Археология евразийских степей, 2022 Recent research suggests that the expansion history of the Uralic languages is closely connected with the so-called Seima-Turbino Transcultural Phenomenon (late 3rd to mid 2nd millennium BC), which involved trade in bronze objects from east to west along
Juha Antero Janhunen
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Ecology and Evolution, Volume 15, Issue 5, May 2025.Eurasian red squirrel (Sciurus vulgaris) has played an important role in Finnish traditional culture and livelihoods from pre‐historic times. Convergence of observations points to the case where the iconic mammal of the northern forests is in decline and migrating to the urban habitats, with a number of important consequences.
T. Mustonen
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The 11th International Congress for Finno-Ugric Studies: Finno-Ugric Peoples and Languages in the 21st Century [PDF]
, 2012 The 11th International Congress for Finno-Ugric Studies was one of the biggest conferences in the last years among the Finno-Ugric events. Finno-Ugric People and Languages in the 21st Century dealt mainly with the language and political situation of ...
F. Gulyás, Nikolett +3 more
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On the relationship between typology and the description of Uralic languages
Eesti ja Soome-ugri Keeleteaduse Ajakiri, 2018 Language typologists are dependent on data provided by descriptive linguists working on individual languages, who, in turn, benefit from typologists’ results, which give them new insights into the properties of their respective languages.
Matti Miestamo
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