My mother had an extraordinarily rich repertoire of songs. I listened to these songs all my childhood. I feel that they are greetings and words, left by the generation that lived before my time, that generation of my people to whom I am grateful for…
The dissertation is a synchronic description of adnominal person in the highly synthetic morphological system of Erzya as attested in extensive Erzya-language written-text corpora consisting of nearly 140 publications with over 4.5 million words and…
Introduction
The position of Erzya among the Finno-Ugric languages has been considered to be exceptional in many respects. Its grammar is extraordinarily rich in complex suffixal forms and morphosyntactic categories. Erzya is the language with the…
Gustaf John Ramstedt (1873–1959) is one of the brightest stars in the history of Finnish learning. From an unfavourable background of poverty he was able to rise to the heights of scientific research.
The study of the linguistic geography of Saami has in the main been based on phonological and morphological criteria. This study takes another approach, though, and discusses spatial variation in Saami from the point of view of lexicon. The point of…
Suomalais-Ugrilaisen Seuran Toimituksia 252 on Syrjänische Texte -sarjan viimeinen nide. Sarjaan kuuluvat muut neljä nidettä ovat SUST/MSFOu 186, 193, 202 ja 221. Syrjänische Texte -sarja on kokoelma saksaksi käännettyjä foneettisella…