Contemporary Approaches to Baltic Linguistics / / ed. by Peter Arkadiev, Axel Holvoet, Björn Wiemer.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2015 Part 1
• MitwirkendeR: Anderson, Cori,; Arkadiev, Peter,; Dabašinskienė, Ineta,; Danylenko, Andrii,; Daugavet, Anna,; Hock, Hans Henrich,; Holvoet, Axel,; Horiguchi, Daiki,; Kozhanov, Kirill,; Maskaliūnienė, Nijolė,; Sakurai, Eiko,; Seržant, Ilja A.,; Usonienė, Aurelija,; Voeikova, Maria,; Wiemer, Björn,; Wälchli, Bernhard,
• HerausgeberIn: Arkadiev, Peter,; Holvoet, Axel,; Wiemer, Björn,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2015]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] , 276
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (554 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Contributors -- 1 Introduction: Baltic linguistics – State of the art -- 2. Prosody and dialectology of tonal shifts in Lithuanian and their implications -- 3. The lengthening of the first component of Lithuanian diphthongs in an areal perspective -- 4. Diminutives in spoken Lithuanian and Russian: Pragmatic functions and structural properties -- 5. Latvian attenuative pa-verbs in comparison with diminutives -- 6. Non-canonical case patterns in Lithuanian -- 7. Non-canonical subjects in Latvian: An obliqueness-based approach -- 8. Dative experiencer constructions as a Circum-Baltic isogloss -- 9. Morphological, syntactic, and semantic types of converse verbs in Lithuanian -- 10. Past habitual tense in Lithuanian -- 11. Non-morphological realizations of evidentiality: The case of parenthetical elements in Lithuanian -- 12. Lithuanian indefinite pronouns in contact -- 13. Ištiktukai “eventives” – The Baltic precursors of ideophones and why they remain unknown in typology -- 14. The chicken or the egg? Onomatopoeic particles and verbs in Baltic and Slavic -- Index of languages -- Index of subjects