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Proto-Indo-European verbal syntax [PDF]
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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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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On the relationship between typology and the description of Uralic languages
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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Мiryachit: A Culture‐Specific Startle Syndrome in the Saami People
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)
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]
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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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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Osobní zájmena ve fino-sámských jazycích v uralské perspektivě
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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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
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Akusanat - A MediaWiki based online dictionary for Uralic languages
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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