Contemporary Approaches to Baltic Linguistics /

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

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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 B...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (554 p.)
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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

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