Odp: Odg: Uralic

From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 1347
Date: 2000-02-03

 
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From: Simona Klemencic
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Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2000 8:20 PM
Subject: [cybalist] Odg: Uralic

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>Piotr wrote:
>
>>         Just a brief comment. My best regards to Ante Aikio. I have great
>>repect for the recent Finnish contributions to the problem of early
>>IE/Uralic contacts. These issues were brought to my attention a few years
>>ago by Raimo Anttila of UCLA; he also made me read Koivulehto's book and a
>>number of articles by Finnish linguists. They represent first-class
>>scholarship and should be obligatory reading for students of IE as well as
>>for people interested in Nostratic and other long-range comparison 
>>schemes.
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Coulde you give us a list of these obligatory articles?

Lep pozdrav,
Simona
Dear Simona,
 
Here are a few that may be accessible outside Finland:
 
Koivulehto, J. 1991. Uralische Evidenz für die Laryngaltheorie. Vienna: Austrian Academy of Sciences.
 
Koivulehto, J. 1992. "Indogermanisch -- Uralisch: Lehnbeziehungen oder (auch) Urverwandtschaft?. In: R. Sternemann (ed.). Popp-Symposium 1992 der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Heidelberg: Winter.
 
Julku, K. (ed.) 1997. Itämerensuomi -- eurooppalainen maa (The Baltic Finnic Lands -- a European Country): Studia Historica Fenno-Ugrica 2. Oulu: Atena Kustannus Oy & Societas Historiae Fenno-Ugricae. [There are Estonian, Hungarian and English summaries of the papers, the best of which is U. Salo's "Ukko the god of thunder: the thunder god of the old Finns and his Indo-European family". I'm told they don't do full justice to the original versions, which I wasn't able to read.]
 
Anttila, R. [forthcoming] "The Indo-European and the Baltic Finnic interface: time against the ice". [To be published by the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge, in the proceedings of its 1999 summer symposium on "The Depth in Historical Linguistics". I've got a manuscript of the paper, which is however a preliminary version to be revised by the author. It should appear soon in the Institute's "Papers in the Prehistory of Languages" series.]
 
I'm seriously contemplating learning some Finnish. There are several other articles by Koivulehto, Salo and Sammallahti which I know only from Raimo Anttila's brief summaries.
 
Powodzenia!
 
Piotr