Linguistica Uralica

One of the most striking features of South Estonian among other Finnic languages is the occurrence of the glottal stop /ʔ/ as a phoneme, which in modern Võro and Lutsi orthographies is represented by the letter q. While the other grammatical and lexical functions of /ʔ/ are shared amongst the South Estonian varieties, the distribution of the glottal stop in the lative forms varies across diale…

The adaptation of West Old Turkic (WOT) loanwords into Hungarian is reevaluated in this work, with an emphasis on phonetic and phonological changes that occur during borrowing and the adaptation processes. Building on the previous work that measured phonetic distances using an improved Levenshtein distance algorithm, this study includes dataset adjustments and theoretical understanding of the dif…

This study investigates the morphosyntactic coding of core arguments in Northern Khanty, with a focus on the use of active/passive voice and subjective/objective conjugation. The goal is to offer a more detailed understanding of the coding patterns across dialects. To achieve this, I analyze corpus data from four Northern Khanty dialects: Obdorsk, Shuryshkary, Tegi, and Kazym Khanty, using a data…

This research is devoted to the study of linguistic elements present in Besermyan and Komi, but absent from Udmurt or most of its dialects. The Besermyan language has not been object of areal research to the present day. The purpose of the study is to identify and describe Besermyan-Komi isoglosses. In the course of our research, we revealed that those isoglosses were formed as a result of late s…

The paper examines the ways how the concept of ”synagogue” has been verbalized in the Veps and Karelian translations of the Gospels according to Matthew and Mark, comparing it with the expression of this concept in Hebrew and Ancient Greek. The study employs a comparative method addressing the ways of expressing one concept in different languages, as well as analysis of semantics and word-for…

The paper discusses the discourse-interactional functions of the past tense forms of the ’be’-verb in Udmurt (val and vylem). We focus on the analytic past tenses, in which forms of the ’be’-verb are traditionally analysed as auxiliaries. Our main attempt is to characterise these discourse-interactional uses, and their relation to analytic past tense forms and functions. We claim that the…

ПАМЯТИ А. К. МИКУШЕВА 11 января 1993 г. скоропостижно скон- чался известный коми фольклорист и ли- тературный критик, доктор филологических наук профессор Анатолий Констан- тинович Микушев.А. К. Микушев родил- ся 5 ноября 1926 г. в г.Усть-Сысольске в Коми автономной области (ныне г

сматривала `южноселькупские числитель- ные в аспекте их склонения, деривации и <интаксических функций.Внимание слу- шателей привлекли своеобразные модели образования селькупских числительных, по поводу которых задавалось много вопро- сов.Е