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- Title
Ethnic contacts and the divergence of the Permic languages.
- Authors
Fedjunjova, Galina
- Abstract
The article calls attention to the fact that the dialectal diversity of a language, present on every stage of its development, is not always taken into account in historical-etymological investigations. Four cases of divergence in the grammatical system of primary pronouns of the Permic languages, which are traditionally traced to common Proto-Permic etyma have been discussed. Based on the idea that processes of divergence have been going on uninterrupted from the earliest times up to the final formation of the languages, the author reaches the conclusion that the divergence must have had its source in the dialectal diversity of Proto-Permic, which in turn continued the dialectal diversity of preceding language states, and in the contacts of the Proto-Permians with neighbouring peoples.
- Subjects
PERMIC languages; DIVERGENCE theorem; PRONOUNS (Grammar); ETYMOLOGY; GRAMMATICAL categories
- Publication
Linguistica Uralica, 2014, Vol 50, Issue 2, p109
- ISSN
0868-4731
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3176/lu.2014.2.03