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  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
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A grammar of Skolt Saami

Feist, Timothy Richard January 2011 (has links)
This thesis is a descriptive grammar of Skolt Saami, a Finno-Ugric language spoken primarily in northeast Finland by less than 400 people. The aim of this thesis is to provide an overview of all the major grammatical aspects of the language. It comprises descriptions of Skolt Saami phonology, morphophonology, morphology, morphosyntax and syntax. A compilation of interlinearised texts is appended. Skolt Saami is a phonologically complex language, displaying contrastive vowel length, consonant gradation, suprasegmental palatalisation and vowel height alternations. It is also well known for being one of the few languages to display three distinctive degrees of quantity; indeed, this very topic has already been the subject of an acoustic analysis (McRobbie-Utasi 1999). Skolt Saami is also a morphologically complex language. Nominals in Skolt Saami belong to twelve different inflectional classes. They inflect for number and nine grammatical cases and may also mark possession, giving rise to over seventy distinct forms. Verbs belong to four different inflectional classes and inflect for person, number, tense and mood. Inflection is marked by suffixes, many of which are fused morphemes. Other theoretically interesting features of the language, which are covered in this thesis, include (i) the existence of distinct predicative and attributive forms of adjectives, (ii) the case-marking of subject and object nominals which have cardinal numerals as determiners, (iii) the marking of negation with a negative auxiliary verb and (iv) the apparent verb-second phenomenon which is observed in clauses displaying an auxiliary verb. Skolt Saami is a seriously endangered language and it is thus hoped that this grammar will serve both as a tool to linguistic researchers and as an impetus to the speech community in any future revitalisation efforts.
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O sistema vocálico do saami de Skolt: uma perspectiva diacrônica / The Skolt Saami vowel system: a diachronic perspective

Fuser, Beatriz Domingues Corá 25 October 2017 (has links)
A presente pesquisa visa ao estudo do sistema vocálico do saami skolt (língua da família fino-úgrica, falada na Finlândia e na Rússia) ao longo do século XX, com base em dados bibliográficos, mais especificamente transcrições fonéticas feitas nos períodos pré- e pós-realocações do povo saami skolt dos vilarejos originais para a Finlândia. Procuro fazer um estudo dialetal, traçando as particularidades dos dialetos originais quanto ao sistema vocálico, e analisar esses dois registros da língua à luz da perspectiva variacionista de Labov (Weinreich et al., 1968) e Guy (Guy, 2003), considerando também as relações de contato. O saami skolt é uma língua minoritária, falada por um povo indígena de mesmo nome, cujo número estimado de falantes varia entre 150 e 300 (Feist, 2015, 22). Impactos profundos na comunidade de fala ocorreram ao longo do século XX, em especial, a realocação do povo saami skolt de seus territórios originais na Rússia para a Finlândia, por volta da década de 40. O corpus da pesquisa foi organizado a partir do registro em transcrição fonética dos dialetos originais, feito no período pré-realocações, por Toivo Itkonen, no formato do dicionário Koltan- ja Kuolanlapin sanakirja (Itkonen, 2011 [1958]) e as transcrições fonéticas e fonológicas da língua feitas entre as décadas de 60 e 70 por Korhonen (1971); Korhonen et al. (1973). A Grammar of Skolt Saami (Feist, 2015), que aborda também a situação do saami skolt no século XXI, é uma das bases para a pesquisa e descrição da língua. Através da análise dos dados, foi possível observar e descrever a heterogeneidade da língua e de seus dialetos quanto ao inventário de vogais e ditongos. Um dos fatores observados foi, no dialeto de Paatsjoki, a ocorrência alofones anteriorizados, em comparação aos dialetos de Suonikylä e Nuortijärvi. / This research aims at the study of the vowel system of Skolt Saami (a Finnougric language spoken in Finland and Russia) over the 20th century, based on bibliographic data, more specifically phonetic transcriptions previous to and after the relocation of the Skolt people from their original villages to Finland. I intend to do a dialect study, describing the features of the original dialects regarding the vowel system and analyse these two records of the language guided by the variacionist approach of Labov (Weinreich et al., 1968) and Guy (Guy, 2003), also taking into account the languages contact relations. The Skolt Saami is a minority language spoken by a homonymous indigenous people, with an estimated number of speakers that varies between 150 and 300 (Feist, 2015, 22). The speech community went through deep impacts over the 20th century, in particular the relocation of the Skolt Saami people from their original territories in Russia to Finland, around the 1940s. The corpus was compiled using the records in phonetic transcriptions of the original dialects made by Toivo Itkonen, prior to the relocations, in the dictionary Koltan- ja Kuolanlapin sanakirja (Itkonen, 2011 [1958]), as well as the phonetic and phonemic transcriptions of the language made between the 1960s and 1970s by Korhonen (1971); Korhonen et al. (1973). A Grammar of Skolt Saami (Feist, 2015), which approaches the Skolt Saami situation also in the 21st century, is one of the basis for this project and description of the language. Through the analysis of data, it was possible to observe and describe the heterogeneity of the language regarding the vowel and diphthong inventory. One of the features found was, in the dialect of Paatsjoki, the occurrence of more fronted allophones, in comparison to the inventory of the dialects of Suonikylä and Nuortijärvi.
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O sistema vocálico do saami de Skolt: uma perspectiva diacrônica / The Skolt Saami vowel system: a diachronic perspective

Beatriz Domingues Corá Fuser 25 October 2017 (has links)
A presente pesquisa visa ao estudo do sistema vocálico do saami skolt (língua da família fino-úgrica, falada na Finlândia e na Rússia) ao longo do século XX, com base em dados bibliográficos, mais especificamente transcrições fonéticas feitas nos períodos pré- e pós-realocações do povo saami skolt dos vilarejos originais para a Finlândia. Procuro fazer um estudo dialetal, traçando as particularidades dos dialetos originais quanto ao sistema vocálico, e analisar esses dois registros da língua à luz da perspectiva variacionista de Labov (Weinreich et al., 1968) e Guy (Guy, 2003), considerando também as relações de contato. O saami skolt é uma língua minoritária, falada por um povo indígena de mesmo nome, cujo número estimado de falantes varia entre 150 e 300 (Feist, 2015, 22). Impactos profundos na comunidade de fala ocorreram ao longo do século XX, em especial, a realocação do povo saami skolt de seus territórios originais na Rússia para a Finlândia, por volta da década de 40. O corpus da pesquisa foi organizado a partir do registro em transcrição fonética dos dialetos originais, feito no período pré-realocações, por Toivo Itkonen, no formato do dicionário Koltan- ja Kuolanlapin sanakirja (Itkonen, 2011 [1958]) e as transcrições fonéticas e fonológicas da língua feitas entre as décadas de 60 e 70 por Korhonen (1971); Korhonen et al. (1973). A Grammar of Skolt Saami (Feist, 2015), que aborda também a situação do saami skolt no século XXI, é uma das bases para a pesquisa e descrição da língua. Através da análise dos dados, foi possível observar e descrever a heterogeneidade da língua e de seus dialetos quanto ao inventário de vogais e ditongos. Um dos fatores observados foi, no dialeto de Paatsjoki, a ocorrência alofones anteriorizados, em comparação aos dialetos de Suonikylä e Nuortijärvi. / This research aims at the study of the vowel system of Skolt Saami (a Finnougric language spoken in Finland and Russia) over the 20th century, based on bibliographic data, more specifically phonetic transcriptions previous to and after the relocation of the Skolt people from their original villages to Finland. I intend to do a dialect study, describing the features of the original dialects regarding the vowel system and analyse these two records of the language guided by the variacionist approach of Labov (Weinreich et al., 1968) and Guy (Guy, 2003), also taking into account the languages contact relations. The Skolt Saami is a minority language spoken by a homonymous indigenous people, with an estimated number of speakers that varies between 150 and 300 (Feist, 2015, 22). The speech community went through deep impacts over the 20th century, in particular the relocation of the Skolt Saami people from their original territories in Russia to Finland, around the 1940s. The corpus was compiled using the records in phonetic transcriptions of the original dialects made by Toivo Itkonen, prior to the relocations, in the dictionary Koltan- ja Kuolanlapin sanakirja (Itkonen, 2011 [1958]), as well as the phonetic and phonemic transcriptions of the language made between the 1960s and 1970s by Korhonen (1971); Korhonen et al. (1973). A Grammar of Skolt Saami (Feist, 2015), which approaches the Skolt Saami situation also in the 21st century, is one of the basis for this project and description of the language. Through the analysis of data, it was possible to observe and describe the heterogeneity of the language regarding the vowel and diphthong inventory. One of the features found was, in the dialect of Paatsjoki, the occurrence of more fronted allophones, in comparison to the inventory of the dialects of Suonikylä and Nuortijärvi.

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