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This volume brings together leading scholars and junior researchers to provide a comprehensive account of the Uralic language family, a group of languages spoken in northern Eurasia. It will be an essential reference for students and researchers specializing in the Uralic languages and for typologists and comparative linguists more broadly.
List of contents
- Transcription and glossing
- The contributors
- Mapping the distribution of the Uralic languages
- Introduction
- Part I: The Making of the Uralic Languages
- 1: Ante Aikio (Luobbal Sámmol Sámmol Ánte): Proto-Uralic
- 2: Janne Saarikivi: The divergence of Proto-Uralic and its offspring: A descendant reconstruction
- 3: Johanna Laakso: The making of the Uralic nation-state languages
- 4: Annika Pasanen, Johanna Laakso, and Anneli Sarhimaa: The Uralic minorities: Endangerment and revitalization
- 5: Konstantin Zamyatin: Language policy in Russia: The Uralic languages
- 6: Johanna Laakso and Elena Skribnik: Graphization and orthographies of Uralic minority languages
- Part II: Language descriptions
- 7: Eino Koponen: Saami: General introduction
- 8: Jussi Ylikoski: South Saami
- 9: Jussi Ylikoski: Lule Saami
- 10: Ante Aikio (Luobbal Sámmol Sámmol Ánte) and Jussi Ylikoski: North Saami
- 11: Taarna Valtonen, Jussi Ylikoski, and Ante Aikio (Luobbal Sámmol Sámmol Ánte): Aanaar (Inari) Saami
- 12: Eino Koponen, Matti Miestamo, and Markus Juutinen: Skolt Saami
- 13: Michael Rießler: Kildin Saami
- 14: Johanna Laakso: Finnic: General introduction
- 15: Johanna Laakso: Finnish, Meänkieli, and Kven
- 16: Anneli Sarhimaa: Karelian
- 17: Riho Grünthal: Veps
- 18: Elena Markus and Fedor Rozhanskiy: Ingrian
- 19: Elena Markus and Fedor Rozhanskiy: Votic
- 20: Helle Metslang: North and Standard Estonian
- 21: Karl Pajusalu: Seto South Estonian
- 22: Johanna Laakso: Livonian
- 23: Arja Hamari and Rigina Ajanki: Mordvin (Erzya and Moksha)
- 24: Sirkka Saarinen: Mari
- 25: Gerson Klumpp: Permic: General introduction
- 26: Nikolay Kuznetsov: Komi
- 27: Svetlana Edygarova: Udmurt
- 28: Elena Skribnik and Johanna Laakso: Ugric: General introduction
- 29: Marianne Bakró-Nagy, Katalin Sip¿cz and Elena Skribnik: North Mansi
- 30: Ulla-Maija Forsberg: East Mansi
- 31: Mária Sipos: North Khanty
- 32: Zsófia Schön and Katalin Gugán: East Khanty
- 33: István Kenesei and Krisztina Szécsényi: Hungarian
- 34: Beáta Wagner-Nagy and Sándor Szeverényi: Samoyedic: General introduction
- 35: Svetlana Burkova: Nenets
- 36: Florian Siegl: Enets
- 37: Beáta Wagner-Nagy: Nganasan
- 38: Olga Kazakevi¿: Selkup
- 39: Gerson Klumpp: Kamas
- Part III: General issues and case studies
- 40: Marianne Bakró-Nagy, Johanna Laakso, and Elena Skribnik: Introduction to Part III: General issues and case studies
- 41: Marianne Bakró-Nagy: Palatalization
- 42: Marianne Bakró-Nagy: Consonant gradation
- 43: Karl Pajusalu: Prosody
- 44: Seppo Kittilä, Johanna Laakso, and Jussi Ylikoski: Case
- 45: Gwen Eva Janda, Johanna Laakso, and Helle Metslang: Person marking
- 46: Jeremy Bradley, Gerson Klumpp, and Helle Metslang: Tense-Aspect-Mood (TAM) and evidentials
- 47: Matti Miestamo: Negation and negatives
- 48: Jussi Ylikoski: Non-finites
- 49: Maria Vilkuna: Word order
- 50: Riho Grünthal: Adpositions and adpositional phrases
- 51: Johanna Laakso and Beáta Wagner-Nagy: Existential, locational, and possessive sentences
- 52: Rigina Ajanki, Johanna Laakso, and Elena Skribnik: Nominal predication
- 53: Elena Skribnik: Clause combining
- 54: Gerson Klumpp and Elena Skribnik: Information structuring
- References
- Index
About the author
Marianne Bakró-Nagy is Professor Emerita at the Research Institute for Linguistics and the University of Szeged. She was formerly Head of Department and Deputy Director of the Research Institute and Chair of Finno-Ugric Studies at the University of Szeged, and has been a member of the Scientific Committee for Humanities of Science Europe, and an honorary member of the International Committee of Finno-Ugric Studies.
Johanna Laakso has been Professor of Finno-Ugric Studies at the University of Vienna since 2000. She is a corresponding member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, and a member of the Finnish Academy of Sciences and Letters and the Academia Europaea. From 2015-2021 she was President of the Organizing Committee for the International Congress in Finno-Ugric Studies.
Elena Skribnik is Professor Emerita and former Chair of Finno-Ugric and Uralic Studies at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. She has previously been Deputy Director of the Institute of Philology in the Siberian division of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Humboldt Research Fellow and DAAD Guest Professor at the University of Hamburg, and is a member of the Organizing Committee for the International Congress in Finno-Ugric Studies.
Summary
This volume brings together leading scholars and junior researchers to provide a comprehensive account of the Uralic language family, a group of languages spoken in northern Eurasia. It will be an essential reference for students and researchers specializing in the Uralic languages and for typologists and comparative linguists more broadly.
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The Oxford handbook may now be recognized as the most comprehensive and reliable general tool on the Uralic languages...One of the strong sides of the volume is that it consistently relies on the established methods of synchronic and diachronic linguistics without trying to make far-reaching linguistic conclusions by resorting to information from extralinguistic disciplines.
