Johanna Laakso

• University of Vienna

Tämä juhlakirja koostuu neljästäkymmenestäkolmesta professori Riho Grünthalin (s. 22.5.1964) 60-vuotispäiväksi kirjoitetusta lahjasta. Opiskelu- ja työtoverit sekä oppilaat tarkastelevat artikkeleissaan uralilaisen kielikunnan eri haaroja sekä kielten ja puhujayhteisöjen esihistoriaa. Kirjoituksissa käsitellään Grünthalille läheisiä aiheita. Tutkit...

Tämä juhlakirja koostuu neljästäkymmenestäkolmesta professori Riho Grünthalin (s. 22.5.1964) 60-vuotispäiväksi kirjoitetusta lahjasta. Opiskelu- ja työtoverit sekä oppilaat tarkastelevat artikkeleissaan uralilaisen kielikunnan eri haaroja sekä kielten ja puhujayhteisöjen esihistoriaa. Kirjoituksissa käsitellään Grünthalille läheisiä aiheita. Tutkit...

The chapter presents some apparent discrepancies between Uralic studies and other fields of linguistics and comments on various aspects of Uralic studies, grammar writing, language description, and all the factors that make an overall survey of the Uralic language family such a challenging task.

This chapter provides a concise overview of the standardization of Uralic languages, focusing on the Uralic minority languages and their orthographies. While the first attempts at creating a written form for the Saami languages were prompted by the Reformation in Scandinavia, most Uralic written standards have only come into being in the twentieth...

Ugric is an umbrella term for Hungarian and the two Ob-Ugric languages or language groups spoken in West Siberia, namely Khanty (in older literature, also known as “Ostyak”) and Mansi ("Vogul"). Traditionally, they have been considered to form a distinct subtaxon in the Uralic language family. However, although some common Ugric features can be fou...

This chapter provides an introduction to Part III, explaining the motivation of this collection of typological case studies from issues of phonology to syntax and information structuring. Overviews of this kind are an innovation; they have usually not been included in previous handbooks of Uralic languages. While the comparative-historical approach...

This chapter discusses the areal distribution of major strategies of nominal predication in Uralic: with an obligatory copula taking all necessary TAM and agreement markers, and without a copula (often in indicative present). The predicate nominal can in the latter case carry a) only markers of agreement in number, b) only markers in agreement in p...

The Uralic (Finno-Ugric) languages, the second largest language family in Europe, including three European nation-state languages (Hungarian, Finnish, Estonian) and a number of minority languages in Northern Eurasia, look back to a long history of research. However, a major part of this research has been conducted within diverse national traditions...

Tämä artikkelikokoelma on koottu professori Ulla-Maija Forsbergin (s. 2.8.1960) 60-vuotispäivän kunniaksi. Teos sisältää oppilaiden ja kollegoiden tieteellisiä artikkeleita Ulla-Maija Forsbergin uraan ja tuotantoon liittyvistä aiheista. Mukaan mahtuu myös kollegoiden muiste­loita uran varrelta. Tieteellisten artikkeleiden teemat kuvastavat osaltaan...

Tämä artikkelikokoelma on koottu professori Ulla-Maija Forsbergin (s. 2.8.1960) 60-vuotispäivän kunniaksi. Teos sisältää oppilaiden ja kollegoiden tieteellisiä artikkeleita Ulla-Maija Forsbergin uraan ja tuotantoon liittyvistä aiheista. Mukaan mahtuu myös kollegoiden muiste­loita uran varrelta. Tieteellisten artikkeleiden teemat kuvastavat osaltaan...

In Finno-Ugric linguistics, words are usually analyzed in terms of stems and affixes instead of abstract monosyllabic ‘roots’ in the Indo-European sense. However, there have been attempts to introduce the concept of ‘root’ alongside the historically disyllabic stems, in order to account for less regular connections between words and the non-canonic...

This book investigates the maintenance of multilingualism and minority languages in 12 different minority communities across Europe, all of which are underrepresented in international minority language studies. The book presents a number of case studies covering a broad range of highly diverse minorities and languages with different historical and...

Language diversity is now often openly proclaimed as a goal of European and global language policies, and many studies indicate that its most important ‘ingredient’, individual and societal multilingualism, is beneficial for individuals and societies. However, language diversity as a dimension on a more general level, beyond the status and maintena...

The aim of this paper is to explore the relationship of Finno-Ugric studies and language teaching: What can the Finno-Ugric inheritance or relatedness mean in the practice of teaching and learning Finno-Ugric languages as a second or foreign language? Beyond the background knowledge which is typically incorporated in the academic teaching of the Fi...

Developments and innovations in the history of a language are customarily explained as either “native” or “contact-induced”. Traditionally, these are considered as mutually exclusive, at least in practice. In the case of two competing explanations, some linguists prefer the “native solution”, while some opt for the explanation which is technically...

The paper surveys the current situation of endangered Finno- Ugric/Uralic languages on the basis of the three domains: the relationship between theory, documentation and application can be conceptualised as a triangle in which documentation feeds into theory and theory is realised in application (language education and language policies). In the ot...

The idea of the uniqueness of the Hungarian language is firmly rooted in Hungarian culture and discourse. Accordingly, the language reform (“nyelvújítás”)—the movement which led to the standardization of Modern Hungarian orthography and grammar and a radical renewal of the lexicon, especially by way of numerous neologisms, in the nineteenth century...

“Lahivordlusi. Lahivertailuja” ilmub nuud juba 24. korda. See on kuues kord praeguses vormis, Eesti Rakenduslingvistika Uhingu valjaandena. Oleme uhked ja onnelikud selle viimastel aastatel uha mahukamaks muutunud rahvusvahelise ajakirja ule, kus ilmub jatkuvalt artikleid soome, eesti ja teiste soome-ugri keelte kasutamisest, oppimisest ja opetamis...

Lahivordlusi. Lahivertailuja (LV) ‘Close Comparisons’ now appears already for the 24th time in its history, and this is the sixth issue published in the current format: LV appears both online and on paper, as a publication series of the Estonian Association for Applied Linguistics. We are proud of this international series, which has in the last fe...

“Lahivordlusi. Lahivertailuja” ilmestyy nyt jo 24. kerran, ja jo kuudennen kerran tassa nykyisessa muodossaan Viron soveltavan kielitieteen yhdistyksen julkaisuna, seka paperilla etta verkossa. Olemme ylpeita ja onnellisia tasta viime vuosina yha mittavammaksi paisuneesta kansainvalisesta sarjastamme, johon jatkuvasti tarjotaan eriaiheisia kirjoitu...

Although Hungarians in Austria are an officially recog-nised ethnic minority, surprisingly little attention has been given to the specific problems in teaching Hungarian as a heritage language. This paper focuses on the situation of heritage-language students who study Hungarian as part of a university curriculum in Vienna, together with German spe...

Introduction: The Finno-Ugric/Uralic Language FamilyLanguage Contact Situations Involving Finno-Ugric: An OverviewSome Central QuestionsNotesReferences

Developments and innovations in the history of a language are customarily explained as either "native" or "contact-induced". Traditionally, these are considered as mutually exclusive, at least in practice. In the case of two competing explanations, some linguists prefer the "native solution", while some opt for the explanation which is technically...

The area around the Baltic Sea has for millennia been a meeting-place for people of different origins. Among the circum-Baltic languages, we find three major branches of Indo-European — Baltic, Germanic, and Slavic, the Baltic-Finnic languages from the Uralic phylum and several others. The circum-Baltic area is an ideal place to study areal and con...

This paper deals with the role of female pioneers and later "feminization" in the Nationalwissenschaften, in particular, Finnish and Finno-Ugric linguistics (which originally belonged closely together but became increasingly separated during the 20th century), folkloristics and ethnography. Due to the positivism and general historicism in these sci...

Abstract: The translative derivational suffix NE in Finnic languages. Väitösk. -- Helsingin yliopisto.