• Degrammaticalization in North Saami: Development of adpositions, adverbs and a free lexical noun from inflectional and derivational suffixes 

      Ylikoski, Jussi (Chapter; Bokkapittel, 2016-12-01)
      This article discusses degrammaticalization in North Saami. Globally, one of the best known examples of degrammaticalization is the development of the North Saami adposition and adverb haga ‘without’ from an earlier abessive case suffix. This article builds on earlier studies by examining haga in greater detail and by relating the development of haga to its cognates dagi and dagá in Lule Saami. The ...
    • From compound nouns to case marking: Prolatives in South Saami and Lule Saami 

      Ylikoski, Jussi (Chapter; Bokkapittel, 2015)
      This article discusses the morphology, syntax and semantics of the previously underdescribed denominal formations in -raejkiem and -raejkien in present-day written South Saami, and their etymological and functional counterpart -rájge in Lule Saami. As the topic has been mostly described in occasional dictionary entries but largely ignored in grammatical descriptions, the present article provides ...
    • Future time reference in Lule Saami, with some remarks on Finnish 

      Ylikoski, Jussi (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2016)
      The paper provides an account of future time reference (FTR) in Lule Saami. While previous accounts of the language claim that the Lule Saami <i>galggat</i> ‘shall; must; intend’ is a future auxiliary, there are two other potential candidates for what might be called a future tense as well. On the basis of actual language use, the potential mood in Lule Saami does not always refer to states of ...
    • Suomen kiuas, karjalan kiukua ja havaintoja etymologian tutkimusperinteestä 

      Ylikoski, Jussi (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2016)
      The article revisits and reevaluates the origins of the North Finnic word for ‘sauna stove’. According to the received view – originally presented in Uuno Taavi Sirelius’ (1907) study on dwellings of Uralic peoples – Finnish kiuas with variants such as kiukaa, kiukoa and kiukas, Karelian kiuku(v)a and kiugua as well as Ingrian kiukā and Vote tšiukas originate in the Finnic (Finnish) compound ...