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Kurikan murteen säilymisestä eri ikäpolvilla
1999
Venäläisperäisyys ja ekspressiivisyys suomen murteiden sanastossa.
2003
This study investigates the relationship between words of foreign origin and expressivity. The material was taken from the archive of the Dictionary of Finnish dialects. It consists of four word groups with several variants resembling each other in phonological shape. Each word group has Russian and expressive features. The aim was to show that Russian influence as well as expressivity may be considered as continuums and that there is no sharp boundary between them. A particular word or variant need not to be either a Russian loan or an expressive word, but it can have some of the characteristics of both groups. From the etymological point of view this means that expressivity is not a perma…