Sampsa Holopainen
List of John Benjamins publications in which Sampsa Holopainen is involved.
Articles
2026 The emergence of word-initial voiced plosives in Proto-Hungarian Historical Linguistics 2023: Selected papers from the 26th International Conference on Historical Linguistics,Heidelberg, 4-8 September 2023, Gvozdanović, Jadranka (ed.), pp. 102–120 | Chapter
This chapter investigates the emergence of word-initial voiced plosives (b, d, g) in Hungarian. Despite a long history of research, no sufficient explanation of the conditions under which b, d and g emerged has yet been given. The chapter revisits the old claims of their emergence through… read more
2022 Drastic demographic events triggered the Uralic spread Diachronica 39:4, pp. 490–524 | Article
The widespread Uralic family offers several advantages for tracing prehistory: a firm absolute chronological anchor point in an ancient contact episode with well-dated Indo-Iranian; other points of intersection or diagnostic non-intersection with early Indo-European (the Late… read more