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Laterals, palatals and more

Posted on Wed 2013-07-31 by sansdomino — 6 Comments

A recent volume (1/2013) of Acta Linguistica Hungarica sports an interesting article from longtime Ugricist László Honti, “Comments on Uralic historical phonology”. I’m tempted to add some thoughts of my own. (Who knows, maybe I’ll make a habit out of…

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The newest chapter in far-reaching comparisons involving Uralic

Posted on Sun 2013-07-28 by sansdomino — 2 Comments

Appears in the Spring 2013 issue of California Linguistics Notes. A Preliminary Survey of Some Uralic Elements in Costanoan, Esselen, Chimariko and Salinan, by one A. Fournet, proposes the possibility of a relationship of the Uralic languages — especially the…

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Mari *a versus *o: some preliminary notes

Posted on Fri 2013-07-26 by sansdomino — 16 Comments

A little thing that has been vexing me pretty much ever since I first for some fateful reason decided to take a look at Uralic vowel history is the distribution of *a versus *o in Mari. These two Proto-Mari vowels…

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Some corollaries of Lehtinen’s Law

Posted on Mon 2013-07-22 by sansdomino — 6 Comments

Phonemic vowel length occurs in widely across Uralic languages. This, however, is due to various independent developments — for long now, no vowel length is normally reconstructed in Proto-Uralic. Quality distinctions are one common source of length. In particular PU…

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