This is the linguistics weblog of Christopher Culver, who graduated with a B.A. Classics from Loyola University Chicago and is currently doing an M.A. in Finno-Ugrian linguistics at the University of Helsinki.
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I didn’t expect studying Mari would also refresh what I learnt in high school science classes, but this reading selection was interesting in that regard. Кеч-могай илыше организмлан кочкыш кӱлеш. Тидын деч посна нимат ок иле. А кушкыл-влак мом вара «кочкын илат»? ― Нунын кочкышышт мландыште. Мо кӱлеш, чыла тушеч налыт,— ойлен кертыт шукын. Чынже [...]
Eugene Helimski, one of the foremost Uralicists of our time and a tireless researcher of the Samoyed languages, has passed away in Hamburg. 25 декабря 2007 года в Гамбурге после тяжелой и продолжительной болезни скончался выдающийся исследователь – лингвист, один из крупнейших уралистов Евгений Хелимский. Хелимский работал в последние годы в Германии. Профессор опубликовал труды [...]
As discussed here before, Unicode so far supports the Old Church Slavonic Cyrillic script only partially, with notable gaps such as the ligature /ja/. In October, an international conference ‘The Standardization of the Old Church Slavonic Cyrillic Script and its Registration in Unicode’ was held in Belgrade. Its conclusions are now available on the web.
Nearly two years ago I wrote that Robert Orr’s monograph Comparative Slavic Nominal Morphology (Slavica 2003) was surely written decades before publication because of the passage: When typological evidence is used in conjuction with other types of evidence it can provided a strong support for the hypotheses under discussion … One area of IE linguistics [...]