Full Description
This volume offers the most comprehensive and wide-ranging treatment available today of the Uralic language family, a group of languages spoken in northern Eurasia. While there is a long history of research into these languages, much of it has been conducted within several disparate national traditions; studies of certain languages and topics are somewhat limited and in many cases outdated. The Oxford Guide to the Uralic Languages brings together leading scholars and junior researchers to offer a comprehensive and up-to-date account of the internal relations and diversity of the Uralic language family, including the outlines of its historical development, and the contacts between Uralic and other languages of Eurasia.
The book is divided into three parts. Part I presents the origins and development of the Uralic languages: the initial chapters examine reconstructed Proto-Uralic and its divergence, while later chapters provide surveys of the history and codification of the three Uralic nation-state languages (Hungarian, Finnish, and Estonian) and the Uralic minority languages from Baltic Europe to Siberia. This part also explores questions of endangerment, revitalization, and language policy. The chapters in Part II offer individual structural overviews of the Uralic languages, including a number of understudied minority languages for which no detailed description in English has previously been available. The final part of the book provides cross-Uralic comparative and typological case studies of a range of issues in phonology, morphology, syntax, and the lexicon. The chapters explore a number of topics, such as information structure and clause combining, that have traditionally received very little attention in Uralic studies. The volume will be an essential reference for students and researchers specializing in the Uralic languages and for typologists and comparative linguists more broadly.
Contents
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The contributors
Timo Rantanen, Outi Vesakoski, and Jussi Ylikoski: Mapping the distribution of the Uralic languages
Marianne Bakró-Nagy, Johanna Laakso, and Elena Skribnik: 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 Sipxocz 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%c: 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
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