Riho Grünthal
Biographic Data
| ID | 1714889 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Riho Grünthal |
| GIVEN NAMES | Riho |
| FAMILY NAME | Grünthal |
| SIGNATURE | GRÜNTHAL R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Helsinki |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7648-5687 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Mati Erelt 1941–2024
Mati Erelt, one of the most active researchers of Estonian syntax for over half a century, passed away on 12 October 2024 in Tallinn.He was one of the most significant figures of his time in improving our understanding of Estonian grammar.Erelt was born in Tallinn on 12 March 1941, amidst the turbulence of World War II.He began his studies at the Tallinn Polytechnic Institute, originally planning to graduate as an engineer.A couple of years into …
Dmitri Cygankin 1925–2023
Tiit-Rein Viitso 1938–2022
the University of Tartu professor of Finnic languages, died on 2 December 2022 at the age of 84.Viitso was one of the most active researchers of Estonian and related languages in the generation after World War II, he systematically documented the Livonian language from its last native speakers, and he was a linguist with a thorough knowledge of multiple varieties of the Finnic languages.Viitso's interest in the Livonian language, and with it the …
Diachronic bottlenecks of the Uralic (ablative-)partitive
This article discusses the emergence of the partitive case in the three western-most branches of the Uralic language family, which are Saamic and Finnic in North Europe, and Mordvinic in Central Russia. The Finnic languages represent the outer edge of development in the partitive from an earlier ablative case, which used to manifest 'source', a specific property of spatial relations. In Finnic the partitive case is a multifunctional and conceptua…
Drastic demographic events triggered the Uralic spread
The widespread Uralic family offers several advantages for tracing prehistory: a firm absolute chronological anchor point in an ancient contact episode with well-dated Indo-Iranian; other points of intersection or diagnostic non-intersection with early Indo-European (the Late Proto-Indo-European-speaking Yamnaya culture of the western steppe, the Afanasievo culture of the upper Yenisei, and the Fatyanovo culture of the middle Volga); lexical and …
Юбилей Н. Г. Зайцевой [N. G. Zaitseva 75]
Inkerikot, setot ja vatjalaiset
Ingrians, Setos and Votes: historical culture, religious traditions and language The book focuses on intangible and tangible heritage, language and vernacular religion of the Ingrians, Setos and Votes, three Finnic ethnic minorities sharing a long-standing identification with the Russian Orthodox faith. Written by 16 authors, the chapters are mainly based on nineteenth- and twentieth-century materials. The research history and collecting of folkl…
The spread zones and contacts of medieval Finnic in the Northeastern Baltic Sea area
In the contemporary northern Baltic Sea area, there are two states, Finland and Estonia, in which a western Uralic language has an official status. Several Finnic minority languages are or used to be spoken in the adjacent areas in the contact zone of Baltic, Germanic and Slavic languages. Historically, the north-eastern surroundings of the Gulf of Finland reflect a gradual spread of the language area during the past millennium and especially the…
What happens in language loss
Besprechung Kehayov, Petar. 2017. The fate of mood and modality in language death. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter. 385 pp
Martti Kahla 1928–2019
Das lange erwartete etymologische Wörterbuch des Mari
Gábor Bereczki: Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Tscheremissischen (Mari): Der einheimische Wortschatz. Nach dem Tode des Verfassers herausgegeben von Klára Agyagási und Eberhard Winkler. Veröffentlichungen der Societas Uralo-Altaica 86. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2013. 332 S
Ein bedeutender Fortschritt in der Erforschung der Frühgeschichte des Ostseefinnischen
Besprechung Valter Lang: Läänemeresoome tulemised [Die Ankünfte des Ostseefinnischen]. Muinasaja teadus 28. Tartu: Tartu Ülikooli Kirjastus 2018. 320 S
Finnic adpositions and cases in change
Mémoires de la Société Finno-Ougrienne 244. 2003. 235 p. (ISBN [print] 952-5150-71-2, ISBN [online] 978-952-5667-25-7.) Dissertation. 20 €. The Finnic adposition and case system provides a limited empirical framework for the discussion of various synchronic relations and diachronic processes in language. The following questions emerge from the data that illustrates the interdependence between form and function in the Finnic adpositional phrases a…
Diachronic bottlenecks of the Uralic (ablative-)partitive
This article discusses the emergence of the partitive case in the three western-most branches of the Uralic language family, which are Saamic and Finnic in North Europe, and Mordvinic in Central Russia. The Finnic languages represent the outer edge of development in the partitive from an earlier ablative case, which used to manifest 'source', a specific property of spatial relations. In Finnic the partitive case is a multifunctional and conceptua…
Inkerikot, setot ja vatjalaiset
Ingrians, Setos and Votes: historical culture, religious traditions and language The book focuses on intangible and tangible heritage, language and vernacular religion of the Ingrians, Setos and Votes, three Finnic ethnic minorities sharing a long-standing identification with the Russian Orthodox faith. Written by 16 authors, the chapters are mainly based on nineteenth- and twentieth-century materials. The research history and collecting of folkl…
Finnic adpositions and cases in change
Mémoires de la Société Finno-Ougrienne 244. 2003. 235 p. (ISBN [print] 952-5150-71-2, ISBN [online] 978-952-5667-25-7.) Dissertation. 20 €. The Finnic adposition and case system provides a limited empirical framework for the discussion of various synchronic relations and diachronic processes in language. The following questions emerge from the data that illustrates the interdependence between form and function in the Finnic adpositional phrases a…
Ein bedeutender Fortschritt in der Erforschung der Frühgeschichte des Ostseefinnischen
Besprechung Valter Lang: Läänemeresoome tulemised [Die Ankünfte des Ostseefinnischen]. Muinasaja teadus 28. Tartu: Tartu Ülikooli Kirjastus 2018. 320 S
Das lange erwartete etymologische Wörterbuch des Mari
Gábor Bereczki: Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Tscheremissischen (Mari): Der einheimische Wortschatz. Nach dem Tode des Verfassers herausgegeben von Klára Agyagási und Eberhard Winkler. Veröffentlichungen der Societas Uralo-Altaica 86. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2013. 332 S
The spread zones and contacts of medieval Finnic in the Northeastern Baltic Sea area
In the contemporary northern Baltic Sea area, there are two states, Finland and Estonia, in which a western Uralic language has an official status. Several Finnic minority languages are or used to be spoken in the adjacent areas in the contact zone of Baltic, Germanic and Slavic languages. Historically, the north-eastern surroundings of the Gulf of Finland reflect a gradual spread of the language area during the past millennium and especially the…
What happens in language loss
Besprechung Kehayov, Petar. 2017. The fate of mood and modality in language death. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter. 385 pp
Martti Kahla 1928–2019
Юбилей Н. Г. Зайцевой [N. G. Zaitseva 75]
Inkerikot, setot ja vatjalaiset
Ingrians, Setos and Votes: historical culture, religious traditions and language The book focuses on intangible and tangible heritage, language and vernacular religion of the Ingrians, Setos and Votes, three Finnic ethnic minorities sharing a long-standing identification with the Russian Orthodox faith. Written by 16 authors, the chapters are mainly based on nineteenth- and twentieth-century materials. The research history and collecting of folkl…
Drastic demographic events triggered the Uralic spread
The widespread Uralic family offers several advantages for tracing prehistory: a firm absolute chronological anchor point in an ancient contact episode with well-dated Indo-Iranian; other points of intersection or diagnostic non-intersection with early Indo-European (the Late Proto-Indo-European-speaking Yamnaya culture of the western steppe, the Afanasievo culture of the upper Yenisei, and the Fatyanovo culture of the middle Volga); lexical and …
Tiit-Rein Viitso 1938–2022
the University of Tartu professor of Finnic languages, died on 2 December 2022 at the age of 84.Viitso was one of the most active researchers of Estonian and related languages in the generation after World War II, he systematically documented the Livonian language from its last native speakers, and he was a linguist with a thorough knowledge of multiple varieties of the Finnic languages.Viitso's interest in the Livonian language, and with it the …
Diachronic bottlenecks of the Uralic (ablative-)partitive
This article discusses the emergence of the partitive case in the three western-most branches of the Uralic language family, which are Saamic and Finnic in North Europe, and Mordvinic in Central Russia. The Finnic languages represent the outer edge of development in the partitive from an earlier ablative case, which used to manifest 'source', a specific property of spatial relations. In Finnic the partitive case is a multifunctional and conceptua…
Mati Erelt 1941–2024
Mati Erelt, one of the most active researchers of Estonian syntax for over half a century, passed away on 12 October 2024 in Tallinn.He was one of the most significant figures of his time in improving our understanding of Estonian grammar.Erelt was born in Tallinn on 12 March 1941, amidst the turbulence of World War II.He began his studies at the Tallinn Polytechnic Institute, originally planning to graduate as an engineer.A couple of years into …
Dmitri Cygankin 1925–2023
Linguistics and language evolution (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · History (4 works) · Linguistics (4 works) · Archaeology (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Ethnology (3 works) · European Linguistics and Anthropology (3 works) · Geography (3 works) · Geology (3 works)