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Some Recent Vogulology

Posted on Tue 2020-10-27 by sansdomino — 11 Comments

(By current standards this perhaps should be “Mansilogy” or “Mansi Studies”, but “Vogulology” just has a good sound to my ear.) 1. Word-final vowels This summer has seen the publication of the Festschrift Ёмас сымыӈ нэ̄кве во̄ртур э̄тпост самын патум…

Probing the roots of Samoyedic

Posted on Sat 2019-02-02 by sansdomino — 25 Comments

Last year I participated in a fruitful Academia.edu session on loanwords from Turkic into Samoyedic. I am now honored to see that the final article — P. S. Piispanen 2018, Turkic lexical borrowings in Samoyed, Acta Linguistica Petropolitana 14(3) —…

Thesis release, DIY edition

Posted on Tue 2018-11-06 by sansdomino — 5 Comments

One would think finishing a thesis were enough to stop needing to worry about it, but sometimes not. Earlier this year I finished my Master’s thesis on the origin of the long vowels in Finnic languages (after about three years,…