Contemporary Approaches to Baltic Linguistics

Published by De Gruyter Mouton 2015

Contemporary Approaches to Baltic Linguistics

Edited by: Peter Arkadiev , Axel Holvoet and Björn Wiemer

Volume 276 in the series Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM]

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110343953

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About this book

This book is a collection of articles dealing with various aspects of the Baltic languages (Lithuanian, Latvian and Latgalian), which have only marginally featured in the discourse of theoretical linguistics and linguistic typology. The aim of the book is to bridge the gap between the study of the Baltic languages, on the one hand, and the current agenda of the theoretical and typological approaches to language, on the other. The book comprises 13 articles dealing with various aspects of phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, lexicon, and their interactions, plus a lengthy introduction, whose aim is to outline the state of the art in the research on the Baltic languages. The contributions are data-driven, being based on field-work, corpus research, and data published in the sources not accessible to the general linguistic audience. On the other hand, all contributions are informed in the relevant contemporary linguistic theories and in the advances of linguistic typology. Some of the contributions aim at a more detailed, accurate and theoretically informed description of the data, others look at the Baltic material from a more theoretical point of view, still others assume an areal-typological or contact perspective.

Author / Editor information

Peter Arkadiev, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow; Axel Holvoet, University of Warsaw; Björn Wiemer, Universität Mainz.

Reviews

"Появление рецензируемого сборника, несомненно, является значительным событием в современной балтистике. Издание будет полезным не только для балтистов, но и для специалистов по лингвистической типологии, фонологии, синтаксису и прагматике."
Natalia M. Zaika in: ВОПРОСЫЯЗЫКОЗНАНИЯ 5 (2018), 137-143

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1 Introduction: Baltic linguistics – State of the art Peter Arkadiev, Axel Holvoet and Björn Wiemer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
2. Prosody and dialectology of tonal shifts in Lithuanian and their implications Hans Henrich Hock Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	111
3. The lengthening of the first component of Lithuanian diphthongs in an areal perspective Anna Daugavet Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	139
4. Diminutives in spoken Lithuanian and Russian: Pragmatic functions and structural properties Ineta Dabašinskienė and Maria Voeikova Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	203
5. Latvian attenuative pa-verbs in comparison with diminutives Daiki Horiguchi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	235
6. Non-canonical case patterns in Lithuanian Cori Anderson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	263
7. Non-canonical subjects in Latvian: An obliqueness-based approach Axel Holvoet Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	299
8. Dative experiencer constructions as a Circum-Baltic isogloss Ilja A. Seržant Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	325
9. Morphological, syntactic, and semantic types of converse verbs in Lithuanian Nijolė Maskaliūnienė Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	349
10. Past habitual tense in Lithuanian Eiko Sakurai Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	383
11. Non-morphological realizations of evidentiality: The case of parenthetical elements in Lithuanian Aurelija Usonienė Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	437
12. Lithuanian indefinite pronouns in contact Kirill Kozhanov Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	465
13. Ištiktukai “eventives” – The Baltic precursors of ideophones and why they remain unknown in typology Bernhard Wälchli Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	491
14. The chicken or the egg? Onomatopoeic particles and verbs in Baltic and Slavic Andrii Danylenko Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	523
Index of languages Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	543
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(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
Pages
- Front matter: 8
- Main content: 554
Keywords: Baltic Languages; Phonology; Morphosyntax; Typology

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Published: August 17, 2015
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ISBN: 9783110343762

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Published: November 7, 2017
ISBN: 9783110578546