The Uralic Languages

2. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-1-138-65084-8
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 648 Seiten, Format (B × H): 242 mm x 163 mm, Gewicht: 1648 g

Reihe: Routledge Language Family Series

The Uralic Languages, second edition, is a reference book which brings together detailed discussions of the historical development and specialized linguistic structures and features of the languages in the Uralic family.

The Uralic languages are spoken today in a vast geographical area stretching from Dalarna County in Sweden to Dudinka, Taimyr, Russia. There are currently approximately 50 languages in the group, the largest one among them being the state languages Finnish, Estonian, and Hungarian; other Uralic languages covered in the book are South Saami, Skolt Saami, Võro, Moksha Mordvin, Mari, Udmurt, Zyrian Komi, Mansi, Khanty, Nganasan, Forest and Tundra Enets, Nenets, and Selkup. The book also contains a chapter on Finnic languages, the reconstruction of Uralic, the history of Uralic studies, connections of Uralic to other language families, and language names, demographics, and degrees of endangerment. This second and thoroughly revised edition updates and augments the authoritative accounts of the first edition and reflects recent and ongoing developments in linguistics and the languages themselves, as well as our further enhanced understanding of the relations and patterns of influence between them. Each chapter combines modern linguistic analysis and documentary linguistics; a relatively uniform structure allows for easy typological comparison between the individual languages.

Written by an international team of experts, The Uralic Languages will be invaluable to students and researchers within linguistics, folklore, and Siberian studies.

Zielgruppe

Academic, Postgraduate, and Undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Abondolo, Daniel

Valijarvi, Riitta-Liisa

Valijärvi, Riitta-Liisa

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Enzyklopädien, Nachschlagewerke, Wörterbücher
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of contributors

Acknowledgements

List of abbreviations

1. Introduction to the Uralic languages, with special reference to Finnish and Hungarian

Daniel Abondolo and Riitta-Liisa Valijärvi

2. On the demography, endangerment, and revitalization of the Uralic languages

Tapani Salminen

3. Reconstruction of Proto-Uralic

Mikhail Zhivlov

4. Connections between Uralic and other Language Families

Stefan Georg

5. Notes on the history of Uralic linguistics

Péter Simoncsics

6. South Saami

Torbjörn Söder

7. Skolt Saami

Timothy Feist

8. North and Standard Estonian

Reili Argus and Helle Metslang

9. Võro South Estonian

Helen Plado, Liina Lindström and Sulev Iva

10. The Finnic Languages

Riho Grünthal

11. Moksha Mordvin

Jack Rueter

12. Mari

Jeremy Bradley and Jorma Luutonen

13. Udmurt

Pirkko Suihkonen

14. Zyrian Komi

Rogier Blokland

15. Mansi

Susanna Virtanen and Csilla Horváth

16. Khanty

Márta Csepregi

17. Nganasan

Beáta Wagner-Nagy

18. Enets

Olesya Khanina and Andrey Shluinsky

19. Nenets

Nikolett Mus

20. Selkup

Gerson Klumpp and Josefina Budzisch

21. Relative clauses in Uralic

Ksenia Shagal

22. Definiteness

Merlijn de Smit and Gwen Eva Janda

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Daniel Abondolo was Reader in Hungarian at University College London, UK.

Riitta-Liisa Valijärvi is Associate Professor of Finnish and Minority Languages at University College London, UK, and Senior Lecturer in Finnish and Finno-Ugric Languages at Uppsala University, Sweden.