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<article xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/" article-type="research-article" dtd-version="1.2" xml:lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">Voprosy Jazykoznanija</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title xml:lang="en">Voprosy Jazykoznanija</journal-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>Вопросы языкознания</trans-title></trans-title-group></journal-title-group><issn publication-format="print">0373-658X</issn><issn publication-format="electronic">3034-5243</issn><publisher><publisher-name xml:lang="en">The Russian Academy of Sciences</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">650551</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.31857/0373-658X.2024.5.60-64</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading" xml:lang="en"><subject></subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading" xml:lang="ru"><subject>Information structure and syntax of Uralic languages</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="article-type"><subject>Research Article</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title xml:lang="en">Information structure and syntax of Uralic languages: A foreword</article-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>Информационная структура и синтаксис уральских языков: предисловие</trans-title></trans-title-group></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name-alternatives><name xml:lang="en"><surname>Skribnik</surname><given-names>Elena K.</given-names></name><name xml:lang="ru"><surname>Скрибник</surname><given-names>Елена Константиновна</given-names></name></name-alternatives><address><country country="DE">Germany</country></address><email>skribnik@lmu.de</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"/></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name-alternatives><name xml:lang="en"><surname>Zhornik</surname><given-names>Daria O.</given-names></name><name xml:lang="ru"><surname>Жорник</surname><given-names>Дарья Олеговна</given-names></name></name-alternatives><address><country country="RU">Russian Federation</country></address><email>daria.zhornik@yandex.ru</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff2"/><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"/></contrib></contrib-group><aff-alternatives id="aff1"><aff><institution xml:lang="en">Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich</institution></aff><aff><institution xml:lang="ru">Мюнхенский Университет Людвига-Максимилиана</institution></aff></aff-alternatives><aff-alternatives id="aff2"><aff><institution xml:lang="en">Institute of Linguistics</institution></aff><aff><institution xml:lang="ru">Институт языкознания РАН</institution></aff></aff-alternatives><pub-date date-type="pub" iso-8601-date="2024-11-01" publication-format="electronic"><day>01</day><month>11</month><year>2024</year></pub-date><issue>5</issue><fpage>60</fpage><lpage>64</lpage><history><date date-type="received" iso-8601-date="2025-01-31"><day>31</day><month>01</month><year>2025</year></date></history><permissions><copyright-statement xml:lang="en">Copyright ©; 2024, Russian Academy of Sciences</copyright-statement><copyright-statement xml:lang="ru">Copyright ©; 2024, Российская академия наук</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2024</copyright-year><copyright-holder xml:lang="en">Russian Academy of Sciences</copyright-holder><copyright-holder xml:lang="ru">Российская академия наук</copyright-holder></permissions><self-uri xlink:href="https://journals.eco-vector.com/0373-658X/article/view/650551">https://journals.eco-vector.com/0373-658X/article/view/650551</self-uri><abstract xml:lang="en"><p/></abstract><funding-group/></article-meta></front><body></body><back><ref-list><ref id="B1"><label>1.</label><mixed-citation>Abondolo, Valijärvi (eds.) 2023 — Abondolo D., Valijärvi R. 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