Facing Finnic – Some challenges to historical and contact linguistics

Facing Finnic – Some challenges to historical and contact linguistics

Facing Finnic. Some challenges to historical and contact linguistics. [Papers from a symposium held in Tartu, August 2000.] Castrenianumin toimitteita 59. 2000. 234 p. (ISBN 952-5150-40-2) 12 €.

Foreword. Hannele Forsberg, The Finnic potential mood and the potential of Finnic. Riho Grünthal, Typological characteristics of the Finnic languages: a reappraisal. Cornelius Hasselblatt, The Finnic verb pattern: clues to (morpho)syntactic change? Petri Kallio, Posti's superstrate theory at the threshold of a new millennium. Eino Koponen, Zu Methoden und Prinzipien der ostseefinnischen Etymologie: der rätselhafte Mensch. Johanna Laakso, Sound history vs. historical morphology: some Finnic problems. Krista Ojutkangas, Grammaticalising habitive constructions in Finnic: käsi 'hand' in Estonian and Finnish. Karl Pajusalu, Alternation of e and a, ä in non-initial syllables in the southern group of the Finnic languages. Helka Riionheimo, When sisters meet: Ingrian Finnish and Estonian. Anneli Sarhimaa, Neighbours getting together in Karelia. Bernhard Wälchli, Livonian in a genetic, areal and typological perspective, or is Finnish better Finnic than Livonian? Nina Zajceva, Das Verhältnis von Regeln und Ausnahmen in der Grammatik des wepsischen Verbs.

Johanna Laakso (ed.)

Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, Helsingin yliopisto

2000

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