Robert Austerlitz, Finnish Reader and Glossary
Austerlitz, Robert. Finnish Reader and Glossary (The Hague: Mouton & Co., 1963). Routledge printing 1997, ISBN 0700708154. Nowadays, a foreigner wishing to learn Finnish can choose from any number...
View ArticleWhitney’s Teach Yourself Finnish
Whitney, Arthur M. Teach Yourself Finnish (London: English Universities Press, 1954). It’s amazing how long it took textbook authors to realize that the most effective way to teach a modern language...
View ArticleThe wackiness of spoken Finnish II
Continuing on from my last post on the difficulties of learning colloquial Finnish, I thought it might be helpful to summarize how various introductory materials for English speakers handle the divide...
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Mari New Testament published
У Сугынь (Хельсинки: Библийым кусарыме институт, 2007) ISBN 978-952-5634-12-9. Last year a translation of the New Testament into Meadow Mari was finally published. While the Chuvash New Testament in my...
View ArticlePrinciples and Methods for Historical Linguistics
Robert J. Jeffers and Ilse Lehiste, Principles and Methods for Historical Linguistics (Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1979) ISBN 0262100207. Robert J. Jeffers and Ilse Lehiste developed this textbook...
View ArticleLinguistic Areas
Linguistic Areas: Convergence in Historical and Typological Perspective edited by Yaron Matras, April McMahon and Nigel Vincent (New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2006) ISBN 1403996571. Linguistic Areas...
View ArticleИсторические связи чувашского языка с языками угро-финнов поволжья и перми
M.R. Fedotov’s work Исторические связи чувашского языка с языками угро-финнов поволжья и перми (Cheboksary: Chuvashskoe knizhnoe izdatel’stvo, 1965) is a collection of four studies on interaction...
View ArticleA reading list for language death
Since the turn of the millennium there have been a number of books dealing with language death and the problem of protecting the world’s diversity of languages from the forces of globalization. Some of...
View ArticleBrill doesn’t get it
It only recently came to my attention that renowned Australian linguist R. M. W. Dixon wrote a book entitled I am a Linguist that appeared just over a year ago. Here’s what publisher Brill’s website...
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The beauty of mid-century German linguistics books
Opening a Harrassowitz (Wiesbaden) or Winter (Heidelberg) publication from the 1950s and 1960s is to discover a wealth of linguistic information organized just the way it should be. Even if the...
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