LINGUIST List 10.676

Thu May 6 1999

TOC: Finnisch-Ugrische Forschungen 55

Editor for this issue: Scott Fults <scottlinguistlist.org>

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1. Johanna Laakso, Finnisch-Ugrische Forschungen 55

FINNISCH-UGRISCHE FORSCHUNGEN, Vol. 55 (ISBN 952-5150-29-1). 262 p.
Helsinki 1999. Price: 150 FIM.

TOC:
Karoly Redei: Zu den uralisch-jukagirischen Sprachkontakten
Katalin Sipocz: The semantic study of body-part terminology in Uralic
languages
Tapani Lehtinen: Imperfekt, Analogie und die Entstehung der
Reflexivkonjugation der ostseefinnischen Sprachformen Ingermanlands

(The English summaries of the articles can be found at FUF's homepage -
http://www.helsinki.fi/jarj/sus/fuf.html)

Ca. 100 pages of book reviews, including among others:
- the anthologies of Finno-Ugrian (folk) poetry by Raija Bartens (Hannu
Launonen)
- the dialect atlas of Karelian (Anneli Sarhimaa)
- two first volumes of the new series "Studia historica Fenno-Ugrica"
(Riho Grunthal, Kaisa Hakkinen)
- the new German translation of "Kanteletar" (Richard Semrau)
- new books on Hungarian ethnography (Ildiko Lehtinen)
- the new biographies of G. J. Ramstedt and Nicholas Poppe (Juha Janhunen)

For complete backlists see the homepage of the Finno-Ugrian Society:
http://www.helsinki.fi/jarj/sus/. 

E-mail orders can be sent to the bookshop "Tiedekirja":
tiedekirjapp.kolumbus.fi.