A presentation on Scandinavian/Norse loanwords in Saami, particularly on their dating criteria and the determining of the source form.

In the established Proto-Uralic reconstruction, a detransitivizing verbal suffix *-w is reconstructed on the basis of the Saami -ōj ~ -uvv- (SaaN oidnot ‘to be seen’, čuolbmaduvvat ‘to get entangled’), Finnic -u/-ü (Fi. kuulua ‘to be heard’), Mordvin -v (Erza ńejavoms ‘to be seen’) automative/passive suffixes and the Mansi passive marker -w (…[Read more]

This MA thesis examines the history of the non-initial-syllable labial vowels in Finnic and Saami languages. Etymologically connected vocabulary as presented in the etymological dictionary SSA is analyzed in the light of state-of-the-art knowledge. The result is that 37 word-pairs can credibly be reconstructed to a common Saami-Finnic stage with a…[Read more]

Report of a field trip to Vuokkiniemi (Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation) in 2004, and the language sociological questionnaire conducted there.

BA thesis dealing with the geographical distribution and the historical background of the dialectal Finnish adverb form poisaˣ ‘away’.

Reflections on different possibilities of reconstruction of the Saami and Finnic labial vowel stems in a Proto-Uralic stage.

Preliminary analysis of the Finnic deverbal nouns in -O, -U and the relationship between the suffix vowel and the stem vowel of the base verb, using data from Finnish and South Estonian.