Table of Contents

Transcription and glossing
The contributors
Timo Rantanen, Outi Vesakoski, and Jussi Ylikoski: Mapping the distribution of the Uralic languages
Marianne Bakró-Nagy, Johanna Laakso, and Elena Skribnik: Introduction
Part I: The Making of the Uralic Languages
1: Ante Aikio (Luobbal Sámmol Sámmol Ánte): Proto-Uralic
2: Janne Saarikivi: The divergence of Proto-Uralic and its offspring: A descendant reconstruction
3: Johanna Laakso: The making of the Uralic nation-state languages
4: Annika Pasanen, Johanna Laakso, and Anneli Sarhimaa: The Uralic minorities: Endangerment and revitalization
5: Konstantin Zamyatin: Language policy in Russia: The Uralic languages
6: Johanna Laakso and Elena Skribnik: Graphization and orthographies of Uralic minority languages
Part II: Language descriptions
7: Eino Koponen: Saami: General introduction
8: Jussi Ylikoski: South Saami
9: Jussi Ylikoski: Lule Saami
10: Ante Aikio (Luobbal Sámmol Sámmol Ánte) and Jussi Ylikoski: North Saami
11: Taarna Valtonen, Jussi Ylikoski, and Ante Aikio (Luobbal Sámmol Sámmol Ánte): Aanaar (Inari) Saami
12: Eino Koponen, Matti Miestamo, and Markus Juutinen: Skolt Saami
13: Michael Rießler: Kildin Saami
14: Johanna Laakso: Finnic: General introduction
15: Johanna Laakso: Finnish, Meänkieli, and Kven
16: Anneli Sarhimaa: Karelian
17: Riho Grünthal: Veps
18: Elena Markus and Fedor Rozhanskiy: Ingrian
19: Elena Markus and Fedor Rozhanskiy: Votic
20: Helle Metslang: North and Standard Estonian
21: Karl Pajusalu: Seto South Estonian
22: Johanna Laakso: Livonian
23: Arja Hamari and Rigina Ajanki: Mordvin (Erzya and Moksha)
24: Sirkka Saarinen: Mari
25: Gerson Klumpp: Permic: General introduction
26: Nikolay Kuznetsov: Komi
27: Svetlana Edygarova: Udmurt
28: Elena Skribnik and Johanna Laakso: Ugric: General introduction
29: Marianne Bakró-Nagy, Katalin Sipxocz and Elena Skribnik: North Mansi
30: Ulla-Maija Forsberg: East Mansi
31: Mária Sipos: North Khanty
32: Zsófia Schön and Katalin Gugán: East Khanty
33: István Kenesei and Krisztina Szécsényi: Hungarian
34: Beáta Wagner-Nagy and Sándor Szeverényi: Samoyedic: General introduction
35: Svetlana Burkova: Nenets
36: Florian Siegl: Enets
37: Beáta Wagner-Nagy: Nganasan
38: Olga Kazakevi%c: Selkup
39: Gerson Klumpp: Kamas
Part III: General issues and case studies
40: Marianne Bakró-Nagy, Johanna Laakso, and Elena Skribnik: Introduction to Part III: General issues and case studies
41: Marianne Bakró-Nagy: Palatalization
42: Marianne Bakró-Nagy: Consonant gradation
43: Karl Pajusalu: Prosody
44: Seppo Kittilä, Johanna Laakso, and Jussi Ylikoski: Case
45: Gwen Eva Janda, Johanna Laakso, and Helle Metslang: Person marking
46: Jeremy Bradley, Gerson Klumpp, and Helle Metslang: Tense-Aspect-Mood (TAM) and evidentials
47: Matti Miestamo: Negation and negatives
48: Jussi Ylikoski: Non-finites
49: Maria Vilkuna: Word order
50: Riho Grünthal: Adpositions and adpositional phrases
51: Johanna Laakso and Beáta Wagner-Nagy: Existential, locational, and possessive sentences
52: Rigina Ajanki, Johanna Laakso, and Elena Skribnik: Nominal predication
53: Elena Skribnik: Clause combining
54: Gerson Klumpp and Elena Skribnik: Information structuring
References
Index

About the Author

Marianne Bakró-Nagy is Professor Emerita at the Research Institute for Linguistics and the University of Szeged. She was formerly Head of Department and Deputy Director of the Research Institute and Chair of Finno-Ugric Studies at the University of Szeged, and has been a member of the Scientific Committee for Humanities of Science Europe, and an honorary member of the International Committee of Finno-Ugric Studies. Johanna Laakso has been Professor of
Finno-Ugric Studies at the University of Vienna since 2000. She is a corresponding member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, and a member of the Finnish Academy of Sciences and Letters and the Academia Europaea.
From 2015-2021 she was President of the Organizing Committee for the International Congress in Finno-Ugric Studies. Elena Skribnik is Professor Emerita and former Chair of Finno-Ugric and Uralic Studies at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. She has previously been Deputy Director of the Institute of Philology in the Siberian division of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Humboldt Research Fellow and DAAD Guest Professor at the University of Hamburg, and is a member of the Organizing
Committee for the International Congress in Finno-Ugric Studies.

Reviews

This book is a thoroughly admirable compilation. We can be very glad that it has been produced while at least a few speakers of most of these languages survive: a decade or two later it might have become very difficult to achieve such comprehensive coverage of one of the world's major language families. The book is well written and clear, despite the fact that scarcely any contributor has English as his or her mother tongue.
*Geoffrey Sampson, University of Sussex, Linguist List *

This book is a thoroughly admirable compilation. We can be very glad that it has been produced while at least a few speakers of most of these languages survive: a decade or two later it might have become very difficult to achieve such comprehensive coverage of one of the world's major language-families. The book is well written and clear, despite the fact that scarcely any contributor has English as his or her mother tongue.
*Geoffrey Sampson, Linguist List *

This book is meant for a linguistically oriented readership worldwide, throughout linguistic and related disciplines...I assume that typologists world-wide will also be happy to see this volume.
*Roger Blokland, Keel Ja Kirjandus*

The Oxford handbook may now be recognized as the most comprehensive and reliable general tool on the Uralic languages...One of the strong sides of the volume is that it consistently relies on the established methods of synchronic and diachronic linguistics without trying to make far-reaching linguistic conclusions by resorting to information from extralinguistic disciplines.
*International Journal of Eurasian Linguistics 5*

The Oxford Guide to the Uralic Languages is a work of great scope and significance. A project of this magnitude undoubtedly required an immense effort on the part of everyone involved, and the dedication of the authors and editors is apparent in many ways. With a work of such ambition, it would be a miracle were all expectations even met in the first place.
*Kaisla Kaheinen, Riku Erkkilä & Toivo Qiu, Finnisch-Ugrische Forschungen*