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- Title
A JOURNEY OF DISCOVERY THROUGH THE LIVONIAN WORLD: THE SCHOLARLY WORK OF TIIT-REIN VIITSO.
- Authors
Tuisk, Tuuli; Pajusalu, Karl
- Abstract
This article presents a survey of Tiit-Rein Viitso's studies on Livonian. Viitso has studied a variety of aspects of this southernmost Finnic language. In the current article, Viitso's studies on Livonian are grouped into six parts: studies on (1) Livonian pronunciation and word prosody; (2) grammar; (3) vocabulary; overviews of the (4) Livonian language; the (5) Livonian language in the Finnic context; and (6) Livonian folklore, culture, and people. The most important part of Viitso's Livonian studies concerns gradation in Livonian and its complicated system of morphophonological alternations. His research activities have been crowned with remarkable monumental works including the largest Livonian dictionary to date with an extensive grammatical survey (2012). Being deeply interested in the Finnic languages, Viitso has studied the historical contacts of the Livonian language and its broader Finnic context.
- Subjects
LIVONIAN language; FINNIC languages; GRADATION (Linguistics); PRONUNCIATION; VOCABULARY
- Publication
Journal of Estonian & Finno-Ugric Linguistics / Eesti ja Soome-ugri Keeleteaduse Ajakiri, 2018, Vol 9, Issue 2, p13
- ISSN
1736-8987
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.12697/jeful.2018.9.2.01