Author(s): Petar Kehayov, Denis Kuzmin
Series: Mémoires de la Société Finno-Ougrienne
Publisher: Société Finno-Ougrienne
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 310
City: Helsinki
Front cover
Back cover
Contents
1. Introduction
2. Karelians in the southern part of Murmansk Oblast: from the Middle Ages until today
3. Evidence about Karelian varieties in the area: available material and focus of the study
4. Kolvitsa and its people
4.1. History of the village
4.2. Sweet home Karelia: family lineages of Kolvitsa Karelians
4.3. Entangled identities and language attitudes
5. The language of Kolvitsa Karelians
5.1. Toponymy
5.2. Lexicon
5.3. Phonology and morphophonology
5.4. Morphology
5.5. Syntax
6. Conclusions
Appendix I: Borrowings from the 500 most frequent Russian verbs
Appendix II: Glossary of rare words
Appendix III: Place names in and around Kolvitsa
House names
Šuuripuoli ‘Big Side’ (on the right side of Kolvitsa River)
Pienipuoli ‘Small Side’ (on the left side of Kolvitsa River)
Appendix IV: Texts
Transcription conventions
Sounds
SSA (b. 1944)
Holidays, drinks, food
Encounters with bears
GAB (b. 1940)
Mother of a friend, healer women in the village
The boarding school in Knyazhaya Guba
Sisters and brothers
AAG (b. 1938)
Woman disappeared and another drowned
Grandparents and the time spent with them during WW2
The life of a friend, who recently passed away
The life of a friend (continuation)
LVS (b. 1934)
School education and what it means to be Karelian outside Kolvitsa
Domestic religious practices
The man who jinxed domestic animals
Landscape features, storing potatoes and carrots for the winter
Buying groceries in Kandalaksha, the bakery and the fish reception point in Kolvitsa
LEZ (b. 1941)
Timber work in the woods, farm work, grandma’s sweetheart
Domestic religious practices, prayer corners and icons
Fishing with nets, brothers
Mushrooms, bear hunting
Horsehair worms, healer women
Seaweed harvest, sea salt extraction, production of soap
Abbreviations
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