Autorentext

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.

Klappentext

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.

Inhalt

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