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Syntactic functions of the inessive of II infinitive in the Veps language: dynamics of development
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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Neutrality and variation: what are they? [PDF]
In this brief contribution, I will raise two basic issues – where basic is meant both as ‘elementary’ and as ‘fundamental’) that are at the heart of Rebrus and Törkenczy (2015).
Siptár, Péter
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Blowing specific words : verbal charms as material suspended events [PDF]
This article undermines the actuality of a strict boundary between language and materiality by presenting verbal charms (puheged, vajhed/pakitas in Vepsian) among Veps, an Indigenous minority group of Northwest Russia.
Siragusa, Laura, Zhukova, Ol'ga Yu
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Vepsian designations of some diseases, according to popular beliefs, sent to a person by three active elements — forest spirits (mec), water (vezi) and wind (tullei) — for disobedience, bad behavior in the forest, in the water, in nature are considered.
O. Yu. Zhukova, N. G. Zaitseva
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Onomasticon of Levänluhta and Käldamäki region [PDF]
The water burials in the Levänluhta (the Isokyrö parish) and Käldamäki (the former Vöyri parish) sites in Ostrobothnia have been a great mystery for the scholars because of their unique character.
Rahkonen, Pauli
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Parallelism in Karelian Laments [PDF]
Karelian laments are performed by women during a ritual -- funerals, weddings, and recruiting ceremonies -- and were once commonly used in other contexts of everyday life. Laments are works of a special kind of improvisation. They were created during the
Stepanova, Eila
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No forest, no masters: cosmology, resources, and relations with space in a Vepsian village [PDF]
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Localization of vepsians hystorical toponyms in contemporary mapping
The article is analyzed the aspects of the historical mapping of Vepsians toponyms in the Leningrad and Vologda regions of Russia. The purpose of creating the map was to apply all the existing and most of the previously existing Vepsians toponyms to the topographical basis. In addition to the localization of toponyms, the map was prepared by localizing
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Baltic and Finnic linguistic relations reflected in geolinguistic studies of the Baltic languages [PDF]
The article provides insight into the reflection of Baltic and Finnic language contacts in geolinguistic studies of the Baltic languages. These contacts have a rather long history, and are particularly intense between the Latvian language and Finnic ...
Stafecka, Anna
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The article presents an analysis of a collective monograph devoted to the literature of Karelia. This publication demonstrates a creative union of writers working in Karelian (proper Karelian dialect, Livvik dialect, Ludik dialect), Vepsian, Finnish and ...
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