Abstract
The South Estonian Kraasna subdialect was spoken until the first half of the 20th century by a now vanished community in Krasnogorodsk, Russia. All linguistic descriptions to date are based on textual sources, mostly manuscripts from Heikki Ojansuu's 1911/12 and 1914 fieldwork. Ojansuu's phonograph recordings were thought to be lost by previous researchers and remained unused. The rediscovery of these record ings allows for the first analysis of Kraasna based on spoken language data, closing gaps in the description and enabling further research. This description follows a theory-neutral and framework-free approach, while respecting traditions in Estonian linguistics and linking the results to research in Estonian dialectology. It provides key information on the Kraasna subdialect based on the corpus - phonology, morphology, syntax - despite being restricted to the phonograph recordings. Future research can expand on these points and build on the present description.
| Item Type: | Journal article |
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| Faculties: | Languages and Literatures > Department 2 |
| Subjects: | 400 Language > 400 Language |
| ISSN: | 1736-8987 |
| Language: | English |
| Item ID: | 102969 |
| Date Deposited: | 05. Jun 2023 15:41 |
| Last Modified: | 17. Oct 2023 15:12 |
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