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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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Verbal 'prefixation' in the Uralic languages [PDF]
The paper sets out with an overview of preverbs and prefixes in the Uralic languages. It will be shown that most Uralic languages have separable preverbs and only a few have verbal prefixes. These verbal prefixes have been borrowed from Slavic.
Honti, László, Kiefer, Ferenc
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Karelian Heritage in the Toponymy of the Southeastern Lake Onega Area [PDF]
The article focuses on place names of Karelian origin on the territory of Southeastern Lake Onega region and provides linguistic and historical evidence of Karelians’ migrations to the area in question.
Anton I. Sobolev
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Improving Reliability of Onomastic Etymology (with Reference to the Southeastern Lake Onega Region)
The paper addresses the problem of improving reliability of onomastic etymologies using the example of historical and modern personal and place names of southeastern Lake Onega region.
Anton I. Sobolev
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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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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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This article analyses dialect lexemes recorded in the Russian dialects of Karelia, which genetically go back to the Finnic lexical fund and represent a fragment of the semantic field “A speaking person”.
Irina Alekseevna Kyurshunova
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Basic vocabulary of the Karelian and Vepsian languages in the linguistic and geographical aspect
Introduction: Karelian and Vepsian vocabulary has been collected and studied by linguists from Russia and Finland for two centuries. An invaluable source for research in the dialectology of the North-East group of the Baltic-Finnish languages is the «Comparative and Onomasiological Dictionary of the Karelian, Vepsian and Sami Languages» (2007).
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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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In Search of Toponymic Borders in Belozerye [PDF]
The article presents some results of the expedition aimed at documenting toponymic and lexical substratal data in the Lake Beloye area (Belozerye). The survey was carried out in the summer of 2015 in the south-western part of Belozersky District around ...
Ekaterina V. Zakharova +2 more
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