Metaphors of language: the Vepsian ecology challenges an international paradigm [PDF]
At present Veps, a Finno-Ugric minority in north-western Russia, live in three different administrative regions, i.e., the Republic of Karelia, and the Leningrad and Vologda Oblasts.
Laura Siragusa
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Frequentative and Momentative Verbal Derivation in Veps Language; pp. 261-280 [PDF]
This article examines the structure, use and semantics of frequentative and momentative verbal derivation in Veps. The study is based on a corpus of context-embedded derivatives collected firstly from early twentieth century texts and secondly from ...
Ulriikka Puura
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Syntactic functions of the inessive of II infinitive in the Veps language: dynamics of development [PDF]
Introduction. The feature of the Baltic-Finnish languages is a system of infinitives and infinitive constructions. The article analyzes the syntactic roles of the inessive of the II infinitive, which according to the Baltic-Finnish syntax classification ...
Maria V. Kosheleva
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Morphological inflectional rules for Karelian Proper verbs
A methodology for the development and implementation of inflectional rules for verbs in Karelian Proper is presented. The materials for this study were lemmas and word forms from the Open corpus of Veps and Karelian languages (VepKar) and the electronic ...
Natalia Krizhanovskaya +3 more
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Preservation of the Language and Culture of a Small Ethnic Group (on the Example of the Veps)
The article is devoted to the problem of preserving the language and culture of the Vepsian people. The author proceeds from the fact that the situation with the languages of the small peoples of the Russian Federation is close to critical. Dependence of
G. P. Ivanova
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Impersonal or passive? Some approaches to analysis (based on the Veps and Estonian languages)
This article deals with constructions of the form “to be + passive participle” in Veps and Estonian. Depending on the syntactic context, these constructions can be considered either impersonal or passive.
Polina Oskolskaia
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Вепсскиe обозначения печи в доме и печи в бане (лингвогеографический и этимологический аспекты); pp. 6-17 [PDF]
Veps language materials are represented in a number of linguistic atlases: they are occasionally found on maps in the âAtlas Linguarum Europaeâ, were included in the 3-volume âAtlas Linguarum Fennicarumâ, and now the âLinguistic Atlas of the ...
Nina Zaitseva
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The Words for Malt in Finnic Languages [PDF]
The article analyses the words used for malt in Finnic dialects, taking into account their structure, etymologies, semantics and area of distribution. The words come from six different roots: variants of idu are used for malt in Karelian, Ludic, Veps and
Vilja Oja
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A Few More Possible Traces of the Lost Language Chain of North-East Europe [PDF]
There are numerous exceptional similarities between some of the east- and southward Finnic languages and Permic languages, in particular in case of the Veps, South-Estonian and Komi languages.
Ago Künnap
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Areal Distribution of Veps Topographical Vocabulary; pp. 106-123 [PDF]
The paper is based on data provided by the Linguistic Atlas of the Veps Language, which is currently under preparation at the Institute of Linguistics, Literature and History of the Karelian Research Centre, Russian Academy of Sciences.
Nina Zaitseva
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