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Etymology of "Talo" (Finnish for "house"). Can it be a cognate of Thalamus?
The problem is that both Greek words are probably not of Indogermanic origin. The case of θάλασσα is pretty clear-cut, the -σσ- cannot be inherited directly from Proto-Indogermanic and must be ...
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What does the superscript x in Finnish IPA mean?
Phonemes are theoretical units, which don't always map directly to sounds.
In this case, to my understanding, the phonologist behind this analysis has proposed that there's a special phoneme /ˣ/ which ...
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How did Asian and European people end up speaking Uralic languages?
If you distinguish Finno-Ugric from Uralic, Samoyedic isn't Finno-Ugric, and is often considered a sister of Finno-Ugric. In referring to the Nenets as being Asian people, it's not clear if you're ...
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Can an object be in functional case A even though it's declined like case B?
Case (including Finnish partitive) is a morphological form, and object is a grammatical function (if we set aside the theory of abstract case). I would say that partitive objects are partitive objects,...
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Can an object be in functional case A even though it's declined like case B?
I think broadly speaking, yes. Forgive a misinterpretation here as I am unfamiliar with Finnish and only have a cursory knowledge of German, but it seems to me that there is a confusion here between ...
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Implying Gender In Finnish
It is very common that people cannot imagine languages which have extra ways of talking about the universe, or don't require you to specify some fact, compared to how it is in their mother tongue. ...
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What does the superscript x in Finnish IPA mean?
This is a well-known problem of Finnish phonology, made widely known to the general linguistic audience in this article by Keyser & Kiparsky. There is no standard notation for indicating this ...
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Trilled R between a vowel and a consonant
You don't say what your acoustic models are, so perhaps the individual saying the words are not producing trills. Here are some examples of the Finnish word perkele, järvi, terve and sormi. You can't ...
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In agglutinative languages with long "sentence words", how do they conceptualize of these "words" and their parts?
The "long words" (certainly for Thai and Lao) represent clauses. In Thai, no punctuation, aside from an occasional question mark or quotation marks, is in common use. The word space ...
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Negation and Pronouns in Finnish
Native Finnish speaker here.
Your recap of the use of the negation verb is correct, as far as it goes. It's also well documented at https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ei#Verb_2
(1) & (3) Both ...
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Negation and Pronouns in Finnish
There's a list of publications on the 'pro-drop'-ness of Finnish (though it's not 'true pro-drop', but that's part of the conclusion), long story short:
Using the subject - when it's grammatically ...
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Finnish Indefinite Pronouns
Native speaker of Finnish here. In my opinion all three sentences are grammatical.
However, the first sentence is a bit weird. The normal way to say this would be "Arvaa kuka soitti?" (...
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