For an outline of this blog’s preliminary run on Tumblr for the time being. (As stated in the introduction here on WordPress, these will probably be mostly imported at some point — we’ll see if I can backdate them or if I’ll upgrade them to v2.0 edits.)
- Making sense of mediofinal velars in Khanty: Some thinking out loud on issues of Ob-Ugric reconstruction. I end up supporting a distinction *k : *ɣ~*w instead of *ɣ : *w.
- Basic root structure in Proto-Uralic: For the benefit of readers not acquaintanced with Proto-Uralic, and some notes on vowel transcription.
- Minor Mordvinic mutations, part 1: Introductory post for a series under work. Overviews the general phonetical features of the Mordvinic languages among the Uralic family.
- Defining Mansi: I locate some isoglosses defining Mansi. A case of re-deriving a known result for the sake of exercise + due to not having seen this done explicitly in sources.
- Indo-Uralic: A reader requests my opinions on a controversial topic. (Incidentally, you can still contact me via the Tumblr ask function if you have questions on a topic.)
- Medial palatals and Finnic, part 1 · Part 2 · Part 3 · Part 4: I argue against reconstructing a distinction between PU *ŋś and *nś, and develop a new model to explain the distinction between Finnic *js and *s that this has been based on. Still needs a concluding Part 5.
- Another questionable palatal cluster: A look into weird stuff going on with the reflexes of PU *kś.
- …Plus some postalveolars: Two “Proto-Uralic” consonant clusters that also probably weren’t, for different reasons.
- E-stem nominals in Finnish: Reference material and some historical background for learners of Finnish.
- Yay initials: New sound law proposal for West Uralic: *je > *ji.
- “Finno-Ugric”, part 1 · Part 2 · Part 3 · Part 4 · Part 5: Series discussing how and why the concept of “Finno-Ugric”, as distinct from “Uralic” as a whole, is outdated.
- Starting premises: Introduction to the blog and your author.
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