Prelude to Baltic linguistics : : earliest theories about Baltic languages (16th century) /

Prelude to Baltic linguistics : : earliest theories about Baltic languages (16th century) / / Pietro U. Dini.

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This book is a study of the relatively unknown field of Baltic linguistic historiography associated with the 16th century. This has been the saeculum mirabile of Baltic philology, not only on account of the first books having appeared during that period, but also due to the diverse linguistic ideas...

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Superior document:On the Boundary of Two Worlds: Identity, Freedom, and Moral Imagination in the Baltics ; 36
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Dini, Pietro U.,
Place / Publishing House:Amsterdam, Netherlands : : Rodopi,, 2014.
©2014
Year of Publication:2014
Language:English
Series:On the boundary of two worlds ; 36.
Physical Description:1 online resource (165 p.)
Notes:Description based upon print version of record.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • Foreword
  • Acknowledgements
  • Palaeocomparativism and Earliest Baltic Linguistics
  • The Slav Theory and Polyglossia in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania
  • An Illyrian Theory of the Baltic Languages
  • The Latin Theory and Vilnius Latinizers
  • Polyglossia and Linguistic Variations in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Quadripartite Theory
  • The Idea that Prussian Derives from Greek
  • The Emergence of a Hebrew Theory
  • Marcin Bielski’s ideas on the Lithuanian
  • The Disappearance of the Baltic languages in Edward Brerewood’s Enqvireies (1614)
  • Concluding Remarks: Was there a Baltistics before Baltistics?
  • Notes
  • Sources
  • References.

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