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Gammalsvenskby the True Story of the Swedish Settlement in the Ukraine
Gammalsvenskby The true story of the Swedish settlement in the Ukraine Author: Jörgen Hedman © Copyright The people of Gammalsvenskby in the Ukraine, a summary In the year 1781 one thousand Swedish peasants from Dagö in Estonia were transported to southern Ukraine, where Catherine II (the Great), Empress of Russia, gave them new land. After an eight-month journey through Russia, during which half of them lost their lives the Swedes reached their destination. Instead of the houses and the cultivated land they had been promised an empty plain met them. Suffering extreme hardships and often tormented by bandit raids, famine and diseases, they built a settlement that was called Gammalsvenskby. It is not difficult to be fascinated by Gammalsvenskby and the destiny of its inhabitants. Here we meet Swedes who could witness history change the world, Swedes who, although being tormented by famine and diseases, worked hard and broke new soil in a cosmopolitan and unstable corner of Europe. This part of the world was the scene of events of international and domestic significance: the Crimean War 1853-56, World War 1, the October-revolution, bandit-raids during the said revolution, the Civil war between the White and the Red armies. This was followed by the Collectivization of the farmers, Stalin’s terror during the thirties, the Second World War and the German occupation in 1941-44, which for the people of Gammalsvenskby ended with a transportation to camps in Germany. Later in 1945 this led to the deportation to labor camps in Siberia. Treachery and exploitation runs all through their history: 17th- and 18th- century Swedish landlords on Dagö, who infringed their rights, betrayed them. -
Word Order in American Danish Declaratives with a Non-Subject Initial Constituent
journal of language contact 11 (2018) 413-440 brill.com/jlc Word Order in American Danish Declaratives with a Non-Subject Initial Constituent Karoline Kühl University of Copenhagen [email protected] Jan Heegård Petersen University of Copenhagen [email protected] Abstract The paper investigates the placement of subject and finite verb in topicalized, i.e. non-subject initial declarative main clauses in North American Danish. European Danish adheres to the V2-rule and thus requires inversion, while North American Danish allows for non-inversion, i.e. [X]sv word order. Based on a sample of approx. 1700 tokens of topicalized declarative clauses produced by 64 speakers, we observe a general stability of V2 in North American Danish. In order to explain the instances of non-V2, we employ both linguistic and sociolinguistic factors. Keywords North American Danish – syntax – topicalization – V2 – non-inversion 1 Introduction The non-inversion of subject and verb in non-subject initial declarative main clauses (topicalized clauses) is a recognized feature in Germanic heritage languages in North America. This paper adds to the field of research a cor- pus-based study of this phenomenon in American Danish. Standard Danish, a typical V2 language, strictly adheres to the so-called V2 rule, whereby the finite verb is in second position and the preceding field is filled by exactly one © Karoline Kühl and Jan Heegård Petersen, 2018 | doi 10.1163/19552629-01103003 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the prevailing cc-by-nc license at the time of publication. Downloaded from Brill.com10/02/2021 01:10:58AM via free access <UN> 414 Kühl and Petersen constituent (xvs). -
University of Groningen an Acoustic Analysis of Vowel Pronunciation In
University of Groningen An Acoustic Analysis of Vowel Pronunciation in Swedish Dialects Leinonen, Therese IMPORTANT NOTE: You are advised to consult the publisher's version (publisher's PDF) if you wish to cite from it. Please check the document version below. Document Version Publisher's PDF, also known as Version of record Publication date: 2010 Link to publication in University of Groningen/UMCG research database Citation for published version (APA): Leinonen, T. (2010). An Acoustic Analysis of Vowel Pronunciation in Swedish Dialects. s.n. Copyright Other than for strictly personal use, it is not permitted to download or to forward/distribute the text or part of it without the consent of the author(s) and/or copyright holder(s), unless the work is under an open content license (like Creative Commons). The publication may also be distributed here under the terms of Article 25fa of the Dutch Copyright Act, indicated by the “Taverne” license. More information can be found on the University of Groningen website: https://www.rug.nl/library/open-access/self-archiving-pure/taverne- amendment. Take-down policy If you believe that this document breaches copyright please contact us providing details, and we will remove access to the work immediately and investigate your claim. Downloaded from the University of Groningen/UMCG research database (Pure): http://www.rug.nl/research/portal. For technical reasons the number of authors shown on this cover page is limited to 10 maximum. Download date: 01-10-2021 Chapter 2 Background In this chapter the linguistic and theoretical background for the thesis is presented. -
Introduction
Introduction TUT HENNOSTE, LEELO KEEVALLIK, and KARL PAJUSALU Our introduction will provide this issue on Estonian sociolinguistics with overviews of the social history of Estonia and of the languages used in Estonian territory. Among the latter we shall talk first about the varieties of Estonian (dialects, vernaculars, written Standard) and then about the role of other languages in the Estonian society. At the end of the intro- duction we present the papers included in this issue. An overview of the social history of Estonia In this short summary we shall concentrate on the social changes that have been relevant for the development of the Estonian language (on Estonian history see Raun 1991). For that purpose, the history of Estonia can be roughly divided into three periods: the ancient era before the thirteenth Century, feudal society from the thirteenth to the middle of the nineteenth Century, and the period of changes from then on (on social periodization of the history of Estonian see Hennoste 1997). The period before the thirteenth Century can be characterized äs a time of monolingual counties inhabited by tribes speaking historical Estonian dialects. There is no data from this period on the permanent presence of any other ethnic group on the Estonian territory. The Status society In the thirteenth Century Estonia was occupied by German crusaders. Until the middle of the sixteenth Century the country was divided into small feudal states. Then Estonia became a pari of the Swedish Kingdom, from whom it was passed on to the Russian Empire at the beginning of the eighteenth Century. -
Part Two Northmen: Identities and State Formation in Scandinavia
Part Two Northmen: Identities and State Formation in Scandinavia 4. PEOPLE AND LAND IN EARLY SCANDINAVIA Stefan Brink ow do Tyskland, Deutschland, Duitsland, Germany, An Ghearmáin, Allemagne, Alemania, Německo, Vācija, and Saksa all relate to each Hother? Well, the answer to this silly question is, of course, that they all are the names of one and the same territorialized political entity found in Europe. Given that, why do we not use one single name for this entity, especially today in our modern, controlled, and nivellating, society of EU-conformism? The answer to this question touches upon the very core of a research field called ‘onomastics’, which studies how names are coined and who coins them. In Sweden (my homeland), our neighbour to the south is Tyskland (if we ignore Bornholm), and etymologically we share the name for this European geographical and political entity with the inhabitants of the country itself, Deutchland, and with the Dutch, who uses the name Duitsland. The name Germany is used in English, Germania in Italian, Германия in Russian, and An Ghearmáin in Irish. In eastern Europe the name of the country is derived from a stem Nem-: Německo in Czeck, Nemecko in Slovak, Niemcy in Polish, and Németország in Hungarian. East of the Baltic the name is derived from a totally different stem beginning with Vo-/Va- as in Latvian Vācija and in Lithuanian Vokietija; whereas Allemagne is used in France, and Alemania in Spain. The Finns, however, use a different designation, namely Saksa, which is similar to Saksamaa in Estonian. Of course, this usage of different names for nations and people is not a new or modern phenomenon as many modern names have roots in early history, and even in prehistory. -
Eurolinguistics Newsletter
Newsletter 08 (April-Mai 2012) Eurolinguistics Newsletter No. 8 (April-Mai 2012) The Eurolinguistic Circle of Mannheim (ELAMA, e. V.) on behalf of The Eurolinguistic Association (ELA) Editorial Dear Eurolinguists, This eighth issue of the News- letter contains three confer- ence reports: First, we report on the Roma Convegno 2011, which was a major event with more than 40 papers and three different programmes be- tween April 18-20 at three different universities in Rome. Second, we report on the Fig. 1: Monument to Victor Emanuel II and Trajan‟s Column in Rome smaller conference in Božava the naming of people and tional language (e.g. Italian as on the Island of Dugi Otok in places from food denota- a Radio and TV language), the Adriatic Sea outside the tions; c) the role of bread and but also the important role of city of Zadar, 18-20 May. local changes in how it is eat- local dialects and the great en over the past 50 years; d) value of linguistic varieties, Third and finally, we also the food at Papal Banquets populist language and differ- give a short report on the and its names between the ent registers for everyday Transeurasian symposium Renaissance and the Baroque; communication were dis- held at the University of Leu- e) the presentation of Medi- cussed. The whole spectrum ven in Belgium between 21- terranean diet; f) the connec- of further papers cannot be 23 September, 2011. tion between food and tour- discussed here (See the de- ism in Italy; g) the culinary tailed account, also in 1.1-1.5 Under the common topic metaphors between the An- below). -
An Acoustic Study of the Estonian Swedish Lateral
Proceedings from FONETIK 2014, Department of Linguistics, Stockholm University An acoustic study of the Estonian Swedish lateral [ɬ] Susanne Schötz1, Francis Nolan2, Eva Liina Asu3 1Centre for Languages and Literature, Lund University, Sweden 2 Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, University of Cambridge, UK 3 Institute of Estonian and General Linguistics, University of Tartu, Estonia [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] Abstract Schötz and Kügler (2009), and a study This pilot study investigates the Estoni- of the prosody of compounds by Schötz an Swedish (ES) voiceless lateral [ɬ], and Asu (2013). Yet, the ES sound sys- which is rare among the Scandinavian tem offers plenty of interesting and dialects and is a development mainly of unique material for acoustic phonetic historic /sl/ clusters. Six elderly ES study. One of such is the lateral system speakers were recorded, and the phono- that will be tackled here. logical and phonetic (duration, relative According to H. Lagman (1971: intensity) properties of [ɬ] studied and 175–188), ES has a fairly large number compared to other ES consonants and of laterals consisting of the following: [ɬ] in Icelandic. The results suggest that (1) [l]: a voiced dental or alveolar ES [ɬ] is a single consonant rather than common to all Scandinavian lan- a consonant cluster. It behaves much guages, in most contexts, e.g. lag like initial [s] in duration, although a (team) and vall (ley, mound), tendency to anticipatory voicing in its (2) [ɭ]: a voiced supradental (post al- latter part may point to its ‘approxi- veolar) in the context /r/ + /l/, like mant’ status. -
Publications
Dr. Habil. Martine Robbeets Publications In preparation (ed.) The Oxford guide to the Transeurasian languages. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Waar komt het Japans vandaan? (Licht op Japan Serie) Amsterdam: University Press. Austronesian influence and Transeurasian ancestry in Japanese: A case of farming/language dispersal? Language Dynamics and Change (Special issue, edited by John Whitman & Mark Hudson “Re- assessing the Farming/Language Dispersal Hypothesis in Northeast Asia”) In press (ed.) Transeurasian linguistics (4 volumes). Routledges Critical Concepts in Linguistics series. London: Routledge. Insubordination and the establishment of genealogical relationship. In: Evans, Nicholas & Watanabe, Honore (eds.) Dynamics of insubordination. (Typological Studies in Language.) Amsterdam: Benjamins. Japanese, Korean and the Transeurasian languages. In: Hickey, Raymond (ed.) The Cambridge handbook of areal linguistics (Cambridge Handbooks in Language and Linguistics.) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. The development of finiteness in the Transeurasian languages. Linguistics (Special issue, edited by Björn Wiemer “Complementation strategies in Eurasia”) Proto-Transeurasian: where and when? Man in India 95(4) 2015 Diachrony of verb morphology: Japanese and the Transeurasian languages. (Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs 291.) Berlin: Mouton-De Gruyter. Publications Martine Robbeets, Page 1/7 2014 with Bisang, Walter (eds.). Paradigm change. The Transeurasian languages and beyond. (Studies in Language Companion Series 161.) Amsterdam: Benjamins. with Walter Bisang. Paradigms: Innovation and preservation. In: Robbeets, Martine & Bisang, Walter (eds.). Paradigm change in the Transeurasian languages and beyond. (Studies in Language Companion Series 161.) Amsterdam: Benjamins, 1-26. The Japanese inflectional paradigm in a comparative perspective. In: Robbeets, Martine & Bisang, Walter (eds.). Paradigm change in the Transeurasian languages and beyond. (Studies in Language Companion Series 161.) Amsterdam: Benjamins, 197-234. -
Transeurasian: Can Verbal Morphology End the Controversy? 1
Transeurasian: Can verbal morphology end the controversy? Martine Robbeets 1 Which end of the controversy? Recently, both supporters and critics of the hypothesis that the Transeurasian languages are affiliated have claimed to have ended the controversy. Whereas the authors of “Etymolo- gical dictionary of the Altaic languages” express their hope (Starostin et al. 2003: 7) “that this publication will bring an end to this discussion”, Vovin’s (2005) review, subtitled “The end of the Altaic controversy” claims to put an end to it in the opposite way, while Dybo & Starostin (2008) return to the other end of the controversy in a rebuttal of Vovin’s critique, titled “The end of the Vovin controversy”. In reality the issue seems to be more controversial than it has ever been. And yet, supporters and critics seem to agree on at least one point, namely that shared morphology could substantially help unravel the question. Vovin (2005: 73) begins his critique with the postulation that “The best way … is to prove a suggested genetic relationship on the basis of paradigmatic morphology …”. Dybo & Starostin (2008: 125) agree that “… regular paradigmatic correspondences in morphology are necessarily indicative of genetic relationship”. The present paper examines the role of shared verbal morphology in the affiliation question of the Transeurasian languages. The term “Transeurasian” is used in reference to Japanese, Korean, the Tungusic languages, the Mongolic languages and the Turkic languages. In the first section it is explained why, unlike in Indo-European, it is unreasonable to expect the reconstruction of paradigmatic verbal morphology and why diathesis is such a fruitful category to begin with. -
Introduction-To-Nordic-Cultures.Pdf
Introduction to Nordic Cultures Introduction to Nordic Cultures Edited by Annika Lindskog and Jakob Stougaard-Nielsen First published in 2020 by UCL Press University College London Gower Street London WC1E 6BT Available to download free: www.uclpress.co.uk Text © Contributors, 2020 Images © Copyright holders named in captions, 2020 The authors have asserted their rights under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 to be identified as the authors of this work. A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from The British Library. This book is published under a Creative Commons 4.0 International licence (CC BY 4.0). This licence allows you to share, copy, distribute and transmit the work; to adapt the work and to make commercial use of the work providing attribution is made to the authors (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work). Attribution should include the following information: Lindskog, A. and Stougaard-Nielsen, J. (eds.). 2020. Introduction to Nordic Cultures. London: UCL Press. DOI: https://doi.org/10.14324/111.9781787353992 Further details about Creative Commons licences are available at http:// creativecommons.org/licenses/ Any third-party material in this book is published under the book’s Creative Commons licence unless indicated otherwise in the credit line to the material. If you would like to reuse any third-party material not covered by the book’s Creative Commons licence, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. ISBN: 978-1-78735-401-2 (Hbk.) ISBN: 978-1-78735-400-5 (Pbk.) ISBN: 978-1-78735-399-2 (PDF) ISBN: 978-1-78735-402-9 (epub) ISBN: 978-1-78735-403-6 (mobi) DOI: https://doi.org/10.14324/111.9781787353992 Contents List of figures vii List of contributors x Acknowledgements xiii Editorial Introduction to Nordic Cultures 1 Annika Lindskog and Jakob Stougaard-Nielsen Part I: Identities 9 1. -
KATRIN HIIETAM, Phd, MCIL, DPSI (English Law)
KATRIN HIIETAM, PhD, MCIL, DPSI (English Law) A. PERSONAL DETAILS Nationality Estonian Home address 32 Francis Road Withington Manchester, M20 4XP 07790795508 (business), 07970 748 309 (private), E-mail address [email protected], [email protected] B. EMPLOYMENT 1. TRANSLATION/INTERPRETING/TEACHING 1. June 2011 – present EE-Translations Ltd. Company Director 1. Sept. 2006 - present EE-Translations (www.EE-Translations.com). Freelance translator, language consultant. 2. Nov. 2004 - present Freelance translator. STATEMENT ON TRANSLATION/INTERPRETING I have been working with both consecutive and simultaneous interpretation between English, Swedish and Estonian since 1991. My most extensive assignment in Estonia dates back to 1996 and 1997 where I was interpreting a series of eight three-day seminars for social workers. In the United Kingdom I have provided personal interpretation for Pastor Indrek Luide in a religious setting. My current ongoing interpreting assignments are in the field of criminal law. Below are the areas I have experience in (and some of my clients I have worked for): Certificates, appointment logs, academic transcripts, including sworn translations (M4 Translations, Transaction Translations, Soni & Co Notaries, Aplin, Central Translations, Lingualink Translations, Central Translations) Construction (Norfolk Chambers of Commerce) Fashion (Interlex OÜ) Finance (annual accounts) (Central Translations, Euroconnection) Food (LanguageWire, Tilti, Firstedit) Legal (civil, criminal, family law) (Multilingual -
11Th International Congress University of Tartu, Estonia June 30Th – July
11th International Congress University of Tartu, Estonia June 30th – July 4th 2013 SIEF board Ullrich Kockel, Peter Jan Margry, Birgitta Svensson, Arne Bugge Amundsen, Jasna Čapo Žmegač, Valdimar Hafstein, Kristin Kuutma, Dorothy Noyes, Cristina Sánchez-Carretero, Clara Saraiva, Bernhard Tschofen SIEF2013 Scientific committee Jasna Čapo Žmegač, Valdimar Hafstein, Kristin Kuutma, Peter Jan Margry, Dorothy Noyes, Cristina Sánchez-Carretero, Elo-Hanna Seljamaa, Ergo-Hart Västrik Local committee Kristin Kuutma (University of Tartu), Elo-Hanna Seljamaa (University of Tartu), Ergo-Hart Västrik (University of Tartu), Ester Bardone (University of Tartu), Kirsti Jõesalu (University of Tartu), Risto Järv (Estonian Literary Museum), Mare Kõiva (Estonian Literary Museum), Patrick Laviolette (Tallinn University), Pille Runnel (Estonian National Museum), Ülo Valk (University of Tartu) and Art Leete (University of Tartu) Congress organisers University of Tartu, Estonian National Museum, Estonian Literary Museum, The Centre of Excellence in Cultural Theory (Supported by the European Union through the European Regional Development Fund), Tallinn University, Tartu Nefa Group NomadIT: Eli Bugler, James Howard, Rohan Jackson, Triinu Mets Acknowledgements We would like to thank the following for their generous support of this event: University of Tartu Institute for Cultural Research and Fine Arts, University of Tartu Faculty of Philosophy Dean’s Office, Meertens Institute, Royal Gustavus Adolphus Academy for Swedish Folk Culture, Cultural Endowment of Estonia, Embassy of the United States of America in Tallinn, and Estonian Research Council (grants IUT2-43; SF0180157s08; ETF7795) We would also like to thank the following individuals for the time and effort they have put into making SIEF2013 a success: Monika Tasa, Kristina Hermann, Sille Vadi, Liilia Laaneman, Reet Ruusmann, Helleka Koppel and Kaija Rumm Table of contents Welcome addresses ..