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Исследования Хейкки Паасонена по мордовским языкам и фольклору: «О строе стиха мордовских народных песен» (перевод с немецкого языка, 1 часть)
On the basis of several works of linguists, folklorists, ethnographers, and ethnic music researchers, we describe the main vectors of studies of Heikki Paasonen, a prominent Finnish researcher; we also offer a brief review of his works on Mordvin languages and folklore.
In spite of the fact that some folklore texts collected by H. Paasonen have been used in a number of Russian publications (in adapted form, in original Mordvin languages accompanied by Russian translations), his academic works have apparently never been translated. We offer a German-to-Russian translation of the first part of H. Paasonen’s article titled Über den versbau des mordwinischen volksliedes (On the Structure of Mordvin Folk Lyrics) published in 1910, in Finnisch-ugrischen Forschungen, vol. X. In this article, H. Paasonen analyzes folklore lyrics in Erzya Mordvin and Moksha Mordvin, reveals certain tendencies in metric structures related to syllabic lyric systems, and suggests a classification of lyrics. In H. Paasonen’s original study, folklore lyrics are recorded with symbols of phonetic transcription. In the translated version, lyrics are written in modern Erzya Mordvin and Moksha Mordvin using Cyrillic symbols, with preservation of dialect traits reflected in H. Paasonen’s phonetic transcriptions. Parallel translations into Russian are also included, reflecting original lyric structures.