Autori uurimus karksi murdest on valminud rohkem kui kümneaastase töö jooksul erinevate ülikoolide juures.

The position of South Estonian in the area of Balto-Finnic is unique in several ways. South Estonian has retained some ancient unique features and one can find there such independent innovations that have no equivalents in other Finno-Ugric languages. The differentation between the active and medial conjugations is a well-known example. South Estonian is also an ancient area of language contacts. Of Balto-Finnic languages, Livonian serves as its neighbor; historical contacts with the eastern cognate languages are evident as well. For several millennia, South Estonian has had contacts with a number of Indo-European languages. Relations with the Baltic languages have been strongest because of their proximity, but one has to take into account also Germanic and Slavonic influences.
All this has left a trace in the South Estonian verb inflection.

Contents:

• Introduction
• On the making and dialect features of Karksi and Mulgi
• Verb inflection in Karksi
• Final e in verb forms of Karksi
• Conclusions
• Appendix