ESUKA/JEFUL
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Eesti ja soome-ugri keeleteaduse ajakiri / Journal of Estonian and Finno-Ugric Linguistics. We keep you posted about the newly published papers in our journal.
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TOC: Journal of Estonian and Finno-Ugric Linguistics (ESUKA / JEFUL) Vol. 16, No. 2 (2025)
TOC: Journal of Estonian and Finno-Ugric Linguistics (ESUKA / JEFUL) Vol. 16, No. 2 (2025)
Table of Contents
Adult L1 users’ attitudes towards their proficiency in written Estonian as evidence of deep-rooted language ideologies
Kristel Algvere
pp. 5–50
Vowel-stemmed NUT participle variation in the Finnish used in the works of Mikael Agricola
Heidi Salmi, Jussi Salmi
pp. 51–88
„Kolisin siia ja sain aru, et ma põhimõtteliselt eesti keelt ei räägi.“ Vene dominantkeelega Tartu Ülikooli üliõpilaste eesti keele repertuaarid ja suhtlusstrateegiad [“I moved here and realised th
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December 16, 2025 at 11:14 AM
TOC: Journal of Estonian and Finno-Ugric Linguistics (ESUKA / JEFUL) Vol. 16, No. 2 (2025)
Silja-Maija Spets looks at the evidentiality of the particles ulmaš and ə̑lə̑n in the Mari languages. The variation between the particles is evidential by nature. The results elaborate the claim that the particles form an event-level evidential system.
doi.org/10.12697/jef...
doi.org/10.12697/jef...
December 12, 2025 at 9:29 AM
Silja-Maija Spets looks at the evidentiality of the particles ulmaš and ə̑lə̑n in the Mari languages. The variation between the particles is evidential by nature. The results elaborate the claim that the particles form an event-level evidential system.
doi.org/10.12697/jef...
doi.org/10.12697/jef...
Mervi de Heer @mervideheer.bsky.social & Luke Maurits analyse stability of meanings in basic vocabulary lists of Uralic languages by calculating a borrowing probability for each meaning and clustering them into groups of more borrowable and less borrowable meanings.
doi.org/10.12697/jef...
doi.org/10.12697/jef...
December 12, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Mervi de Heer @mervideheer.bsky.social & Luke Maurits analyse stability of meanings in basic vocabulary lists of Uralic languages by calculating a borrowing probability for each meaning and clustering them into groups of more borrowable and less borrowable meanings.
doi.org/10.12697/jef...
doi.org/10.12697/jef...
Reposted by ESUKA/JEFUL
Calls: Journal of Estonian and Finno-Ugric Linguistics - "Special Issue: Livonian Studies V" (Jrnl)
Calls: Journal of Estonian and Finno-Ugric Linguistics - "Special Issue: Livonian Studies V" (Jrnl)
We would like to invite you to contribute to a special issue focusing on Livonian studies of the Journal of Estonian and Finno-Ugric Linguistics (ESUKA – JEFUL), which will already be the fifth special Livonian studies issue published by the journal. ESUKA – JEFUL is a peer-reviewed open access journal published by the University of Tartu Press. The journal does not charge APCs or submission charges from the authors. The journal is indexed by Scopus and Web of Science.
We are interested in ar
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December 11, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Calls: Journal of Estonian and Finno-Ugric Linguistics - "Special Issue: Livonian Studies V" (Jrnl)
Adele Vaks, Virve Vihman (@virvev.bsky.social) & Jan de Jong investigate the relationship between language exposure and Estonian competence of Estonian-Norwegian bilingual children using the Q-BEx questionnaire, Sentence Repetition Task and Cross-Linguistic Lexical Task.
doi.org/10.12697/jef...
doi.org/10.12697/jef...
Language exposure and competence in Estonian-Norwegian bilingual children
| Eesti ja soome-ugri keeleteaduse ajakiri. Journal of Estonian and Finno-Ugric Linguistics
doi.org
October 17, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Adele Vaks, Virve Vihman (@virvev.bsky.social) & Jan de Jong investigate the relationship between language exposure and Estonian competence of Estonian-Norwegian bilingual children using the Q-BEx questionnaire, Sentence Repetition Task and Cross-Linguistic Lexical Task.
doi.org/10.12697/jef...
doi.org/10.12697/jef...
In the fresh ESUKA/JEFUL paper Maria Tuulik and colleagues from the Institute of Estonian Language investigate how large language models (LMMs) can be used in lexicography for giving definitions and presenting word meaning(s). The paper is in Estonian.
doi.org/10.12697/jef...
doi.org/10.12697/jef...
October 14, 2025 at 3:30 PM
In the fresh ESUKA/JEFUL paper Maria Tuulik and colleagues from the Institute of Estonian Language investigate how large language models (LMMs) can be used in lexicography for giving definitions and presenting word meaning(s). The paper is in Estonian.
doi.org/10.12697/jef...
doi.org/10.12697/jef...
Fresh ESUKA/JEFUL paper: Heidi Salmi & Jussi Salmi apply a machine learning classifier algorithm to examine the variation of NUT participle in the oldest written Finnish used by Mikael Agricola.
doi.org/10.12697/jef...
doi.org/10.12697/jef...
May 29, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Fresh ESUKA/JEFUL paper: Heidi Salmi & Jussi Salmi apply a machine learning classifier algorithm to examine the variation of NUT participle in the oldest written Finnish used by Mikael Agricola.
doi.org/10.12697/jef...
doi.org/10.12697/jef...
The first article of ESUKA/JEFUL 2025 is published: Kristel Algvere writes about adult L1 users’ attitudes towards their proficiency in written Estonian and how their responses reflect language ideologies.
doi.org/10.12697/jef...
doi.org/10.12697/jef...
Adult L1 users’ attitudes towards their proficiency in written Estonian as evidence of deep-rooted language ideologies
| Eesti ja soome-ugri keeleteaduse ajakiri. Journal of Estonian and Fin...
doi.org
February 4, 2025 at 5:05 PM
The first article of ESUKA/JEFUL 2025 is published: Kristel Algvere writes about adult L1 users’ attitudes towards their proficiency in written Estonian and how their responses reflect language ideologies.
doi.org/10.12697/jef...
doi.org/10.12697/jef...
The last paper in 2024 ESUKA/JEFUL is by Niklas Metsäranta who discusses the etymology of four Mari words: Proto-Mari *čükte- ‘light, set fire to’, *poδəla- ‘spoon, slurp’, *pükte- ‘brood (eggs)’, and *püəž- ‘sweat’.
doi.org/10.12697/jef...
doi.org/10.12697/jef...
Diachronic derivation: Mari etymologies
| Eesti ja soome-ugri keeleteaduse ajakiri. Journal of Estonian and Finno-Ugric Linguistics
doi.org
December 21, 2024 at 5:48 PM
The last paper in 2024 ESUKA/JEFUL is by Niklas Metsäranta who discusses the etymology of four Mari words: Proto-Mari *čükte- ‘light, set fire to’, *poδəla- ‘spoon, slurp’, *pükte- ‘brood (eggs)’, and *püəž- ‘sweat’.
doi.org/10.12697/jef...
doi.org/10.12697/jef...
Ernesta Kazakėnaitė and Rogier Blokland write about the finding of an early Lord’s Prayer in a southern variety of Saami which is potentially the oldest known Saami text in manuscript form that has survived to the present day.
doi.org/10.12697/jef...
doi.org/10.12697/jef...
November 23, 2024 at 11:27 AM
Ernesta Kazakėnaitė and Rogier Blokland write about the finding of an early Lord’s Prayer in a southern variety of Saami which is potentially the oldest known Saami text in manuscript form that has survived to the present day.
doi.org/10.12697/jef...
doi.org/10.12697/jef...