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Published by Helsinki : Finno-Ugrian Dept. of Helsinki University, 2004
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Soft cover. Condition: New. 179 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm. The moribound Livonian language spoken in Latvia belongs to a subgroup of the Finno-Ugric languages often referred to as Balto-Finnic languages. In these languages, which include Finnish and Estonian, two or more morphological cases can be used to mark the direct object of a sentence. This book is the first in-depth examination of the factors conditioning this case alternation in Livonian. It is based on a large corpus of sentences taken from spoken and written language sources.…
