Uralilaisen kielentutkimuksen bibliografia

Kirja-arvioLänsimäki, Maija ym. (toim.): Bibliographia Studiorum Uralicorum 1917-1987. III. Kielitied

Kirjakielten variaatiosta

On the variation in literary languages The article discusses the formation and development of several literary languages. The main objects of the study are the Finno-Ugric languages spoken in the Volga-Kama region (Russia), and Chuvash, but, for comparison, Norwegian, Arabic, Russian, Finnish and some other Finno-Ugric languages are treated, as well. A general classification of cases where linguistic variation tends to occur in standard languages is put forward. The author also discusses the question whether some kind of universal “normal” amount of variation can be defined for literary languages. The conclusion is that the degree of variation allowed in a literary norm is highly language-specific and depends on the characteristics of the linguistic situation and the history of the literary standard.Siirretty Doriast

Perustietoa suomen sukukielistä ja -kansoista

Kirja-arvioLaakso, Johanna (toim.): Uralilaiset kansat. Tietoa suomen sukukielistä ja niiden puhujista

Nykyinen ersän ja mokšan kieliä koskeva keskustelu diskurssianalyysin näkökulmasta

The current discussion on the Erzya and Moksha languages from the viewpoint of discourse analysis The article contains an analysis of 21 texts in which the current situation of the Mordvin languages and nationalities (Erzya and Moksha) in Russia is discussed. The texts were taken from the Internet and date from the late 1990s to the end of the first decade of the third millennium. The method used in the study is critical discourse analysis (Norman Fairclough). As a result of the analysis, eight different discourses were identified. These discourses reveal different viewpoints on the ongoing changes as well as attempts to influence the current linguistic situation. Further, these discourses reflect different ways of conceiving the national and linguistic reality.Siirretty Doriast

Harakter vydelitel'nogo affiksa -i i vopros of kategorii vydelitel'nosti v chuvashskom jazyke

[Title]  The character of the distinctive affix ‑i and the question of the category of distinction in the Chuvash language In the article, the "distinctive suffixes" of the Chuvash language -i, -χi, and -sker, as well as the third person possessive suffix -i /-ĕ expressing definiteness, are investigated on the basis of grammatical literature. The author agrees with some Chuvash scholars that regard the "category of distinction" as problematic but considers "distinctive suffix" to be an appropriate name for the suffix ‑i, which combines the characteristics of  the Turkic distinctive suffix *-ki and the definite possessive suffix.  The author also discusses the absence of ‘marking definiteness’ among the functions of the possessive suffixes in Chuvash grammatical tradition.</p