The Mechanism of Substrate Impact on Superstrate: Assessing Uralic Substrate in Germanic

Kalevi Wiik has suggested that certain changes in Germanic were actuated by shifting Finno-Ugric speakers. One of the crucial problems of such explanations is how to estimate the impact of any possible contact in the past to the grammars of the languages involved in this contact. According to the pr...

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Main Authors: Tene Üprus, Martin Ehala
Format: Article
Language:deu
Published: Estonian Academy Publishers 2008-06-01
Series:Linguistica Uralica
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Online Access:http://www.kirj.ee/public/Linguistica_Uralica/2008/issue_2/ling-2008-2-81-96.pdf