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Proto-Indo-European verbal syntax [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
It is argued that the PIE thematic flexion can be compared with the objective conjugation of the Uralic languages.
Kortlandt, Frederik H. H.
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Linguistic Diversification and Rates of Change: Insights From a Diverse Sample of Sociolinguistic Studies

open access: yesLanguage 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

On the relationship between typology and the description of Uralic languages

open access: yesEesti 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
doaj   +1 more source

Мiryachit: A Culture‐Specific Startle Syndrome in the Saami People

open access: yesMovement 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
wiley   +1 more source

The Great Past of Small Peoples (the case of the samoyeds)

open access: yesАрхеология 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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An outline of Proto-Indo-European [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Indo-European is a branch of Indo-Uralic which was radically transformed under the influence of a North Caucasian substratum when its speakers moved from the area north of the Caspian Sea to the area north of the Black Sea (cf. Kortlandt 2007b).
Kortlandt, Frederik H. H.
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Traditional Knowledge and Conservation Priorities of Eurasian Red Squirrel (Sciurus vulgaris) in Finland

open access: yesEcology 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
wiley   +1 more source

Osobní zájmena ve fino-sámských jazycích v uralské perspektivě

open access: yesLinguistica Brunensia, 2013
In the article the personal pronouns of all Uralic languages are collected and summarized from the point of view of their declension. Personal pronouns of Balto-Finnic and Saamic languages are collected and analyzed on the basis of their internal ...
Lucie Hofírková, Václav Blažek
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Sounds of the future and past

open access: yesBritish Journal of Psychology, Volume 116, Issue 2, Page 316-335, May 2025.
Abstract We report evidence of sound symbolism for the abstract concept of time across seven experiments (total N = 825). Participants associated the future and past with distinct phonemes (Experiment 1). In particular, using nearly 8000 pseudowords, we found associations between the future and high front vowels and voiced fricatives/affricatives, and ...
David M. Sidhu, Johanna Peetz
wiley   +1 more source

Akusanat - A MediaWiki based online dictionary for Uralic languages

open access: yes, 2020
Akusanat is a MediaWiki based online dictionary system for Uralic languages. This repository contains the code for our custom-made XML-MediaWiki synchronization system.
Rueter, Jack, Hämäläinen, Mika
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