Thisbook is part of a dissertation by Konstantin Zamyatin. The dissertation focuses on the phenomenon of granting minority languages official status. The concepts of official language and minority language do not seem to be outright compatible and…
Skolt Saami is an Eastern Saami language within the Uralic family. This grammar presents an overview of the phonology, morphology and syntax of Skolt Saami, paying particular attention to its highly complex morphophonological and inflectional…
What do we know about the prehistory of languages and cultures in areas, such as Northern Europe that do not have written documents or large extinct cities? For decades, archaeology and linguistics, two disciplines weaving together multiple…
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…
Pekka Lehtimäki, Tutkijan tikapuut. Zusammenfassung: Die Laufbahn des Forschers. Terho Itkonen, -siin vai -hin monikon illatiivissa? (1959). Summary: -siin or -hin in the Illative Plural?; Sananrajaisten äänneilmiöiden synkroniaa ja diakroniaa…
Dieses Werk hat hundert ausführliche Wortartikel zum Inhalt, in denen insgesamt 156 finnische Wörter etymologisch behandelt werden. Für die Ethnogenese des finnischen Volkes spielt die reiche Terminologie, die mit der Hochzeit und den damit…
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.
Alho Alhoniemi, Über einige nichtadverbale Verwendungsweisen der Woher-Kasus im TscheremissischenPaul Alvre, Eesti terminatiivse emmis-konstruktsiooni päritolustPaul Ariste, Paarist vadja sõnastRaija Bartens, Zur Syntax der Nominalsätze und der…
P. Ariste, Wotisch larrolainGéza Bárczi, Zur Geschichte der finnisch-ugrischen Verschlusslaute in urungarischer ZeitKnut Bergsland, The Lapp dialects south of LapplandD. R. Fuchs, Eine charakteristische Ablativ-KonstruktionP. Hajdú, Etymologische…
Pentti Aalto, Some South-Mongolian ProverbsÖdön Beke, Ung. innen, onnan, honnanKnut Bergsland, Remarques sur les pronoms démonstratifs laponsD. R. Fuchs, Ostj. kel 'Wort' und 'Strick'Lauri Hakulinen, BedeutungsgeschichtlichesAlbert Hämäläinen, Der…
In this monograph a brief historical overview is given with results of research on the Mordvin definite conjugation. My primary purpose is to present various diachronic layers of synthetic verbal forms in the context of my previous…
Abstract
Mordvin is a Finno-Ugrian language pair that is considered to be more closely related to the Saami and Finnic groups than any other language. Nevertheless, Erzya-Mordvin has word stress that does not conform to any previously described…