{"id":225,"date":"2017-06-26T09:44:39","date_gmt":"2017-06-26T13:44:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/toivonen\/?page_id=225"},"modified":"2025-05-26T06:38:46","modified_gmt":"2025-05-26T10:38:46","slug":"finno-ugric-linguistics-syntax-vowel-harmony","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/toivonen\/finno-ugric-linguistics-syntax-vowel-harmony\/","title":{"rendered":"Finno-Ugric languages"},"content":{"rendered":"

Inari Saami, Finnish, Votic<\/h2>\n

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Inari Saami is spoken by a few hundred speakers in Norther Finland. I have been working on the language since 1997. I am also interested in Finnish, and I have explored vowel harmony in Votic. Collaborators on these topics include Petter Morottaja, Diane Nelson, and Lev Blumenfeld.<\/p>\n

2023. Pronoun incorporation.<\/a> In: Mary Dalrymple (ed.), Handbook of Lexical Functional Grammar.<\/em>. Berlin: Language Science Press.<\/p>\n

Submitted, draft 2017. Some notes on Inari Saami syntax and morphology. With Petter Morottaja. A shorter version for this paper is under review Tamm and Vainikka (eds.) Uralic Syntax. <\/i> pdf<\/a><\/p>\n

2019. Humans, animals, things and animacy features.<\/a> With Shiva Bayanati. Open Linguistics<\/em> 5(1): 156-170.<\/p>\n

Petter Morottaja, Raj Singh, and Ida Toivonen. 2017. Comitative coordination in Inari Saami.<\/a> 3rd Saami Linguistics Symposium.<\/em> Freiburg. (Handout) <\/p>\n

2016. A featural paradox in Votic harmony. With Lev Blumenfeld. NLLT<\/em>.
\nlink<\/a>; Pre-published draft: pdf<\/a><\/p>\n

2009. Phonetic duration, phonological quantity and prosodic structure in Inari Saami. With Patrik Bye and Elin Sagulin. Phonetica<\/em> 66(4): 199–121.
\npdf<\/a><\/p>\n

2007. Saami Linguistics<\/em>. Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 288. Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins. With Diane Nelson.
\nBook website<\/a><\/p>\n

2007. Verbal agreement in Inari Saami. In: Ida Toivonen and Diane Nelson, eds., Saami Linguistics<\/em>, CILT 288, 227-258. John Benjamins.
\npdf<\/a><\/p>\n

2007. Microvariation in Inari Saami. In: Jussi Ylikoski and Ante Aikio, eds., S\u00e1mit, s\u00e1nit, s\u00e1tneh\u00e1mit. Riepmo\u010d\u00e1la Pekka Sammallahti miessem\u00e1nu 21. beaivve 2007<\/em>. M\u00e9moires de la Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 Finno-Ougrienne 253. Helsinki. 363-374. pdf<\/a><\/p>\n

2003. Counting and the grammar: Numerals in Inari Sami. In Satu
\nManninen and Diane Nelson, eds., Generative Approaches to Finnic and Saami Linguistics<\/em>. Stanford, CA: CSLI Publications. 321\u2013341. With Diane Nelson.<\/p>\n

2001. Language Change, Lexical Features and Finnish Possessors. In Miriam Butt and Tracy Holloway King, eds., Time over Matter: Diachronic Perspectives on Morphosyntax<\/em>. Stanford, CA: CSLI Publications. 209–225.
\npdf<\/a><\/p>\n

2000. The Morphosyntax of Finnish Possession.
\n[Long, old version; a newer version appeared in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 18(3)<\/em>]
\npdf<\/a><\/p>\n

1995. A study of Finnish infinitives.
\n[Undergraduate Honor’s Thesis, Brandeis University] pdf<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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