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Siberica et Uralica: In memoriam Eugen Helimski
Vol. 56 (2022)This volume is dedicated to the memory of Eugene Helimski — an eminent linguist,
specialist in Uralic, Tungusic, Turkic and Slavic descriptive and comparative linguistics.
He was author of several dictionaries, did a great amount of work concerning the history
of Uralic languages, published many old archival records, spent much time in the field,
collecting data from poorly described languages and dialects, and did much more. -
Josefina Budzisch: Definitheit im Selkupischen
Vol. 55 (2021)The dissertation at hand deals with definiteness in Selkup. It is investigated how in Selkup – taking the three dialect groups North, Central and South Selkup into account – semantic-pragmatic definiteness is expressed, since the language lacks an explicit grammatical marker (like a definite article) for the expression of definiteness. The analysis is carried out on the basis of existing research literature, elicit data and a corpus, which is composed of 248 texts with 12,828 sentences and 77,443 tokens.
In its entirety, Selkup thus shows that demonstratives, possessive associations and the non-possessive use of the possessive suffix of the third person singular are the most important strategies for marking definiteness. All types of references, however, contain large numbers of unmarked noun phrases, showing that context is often the decisive factor in deciding whether a noun phrase is to be interpreted as definite or indefinite.
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Uralic studies, languages, and researchers
Vol. 54 (2021)Proceedings of the 5th Mikola Conference (Szeged, 19–20, September 2019).
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Competing Narratives between Nomadic People and their Sedentary Neighbours
Vol. 53 (2019)Papers of the 7th International Conference on the Medieval History of the Eurasian Steppe Nov. 9–12, 2018 Shanghai University, China
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Ideas behind symbols – languages behind scripts
Vol. 52 (2018)Proceedings of the 60th Meeting of the Permanent International Altaistic Conference (PIAC) August 27 - September 1, 2017 Székesfehérvár, Hungary