A History of East Baltic Through Language Contact.
"The East Baltic languages are well known for their conservative phonology as compared to other Indo-European languages, which has led to a stereotype that the Balts developed in isolation without much contact with other speech communities. This book challenges that view, taking a deep dive int...
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| Superior document: | Leiden Studies in Indo-European Series ; v.24 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Boston : : BRILL,, 2023. ©2024. |
| Year of Publication: | 2023 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Leiden Studies in Indo-European Series
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (460 pages) |
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Table of Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Tables
- Symbols and Abbreviations
- Data Sources and Conventions
- Introduction
- Part 1. Contacts with Known Languages
- Chapter 1. Baltic-Slavic contacts
- 1.1. Early Slavic → Baltic Loans
- 1.2. Early Baltic → Slavic Loans?
- Chapter 2. Early Germanic → Baltic Loans
- Chapter 3. Baltic → Finnic Loans
- 3.1. Preliminaries
- 3.2. Baltic Loanwords with an IE Etymology
- 3.3. Analysis of Sound Substitutions
- 3.4. Loans from Proto-Finnic to Proto-Baltic?
- 3.5. Common loans from unknown sources?
- 3.6. Analysis of contact relationship
- Chapter 4. Loanwords into Other Uralic Languages
- 4.1. Sámi
- 4.2. Mordvin
- 4.3. Mari
- 4.4. Permic
- 4.5. Conclusion
- Part 2. Contacts with Unknown Languages
- Chapter 5. Introduction
- 5.1. Research History
- 5.2. Methodological Considerations
- 5.3. Excursus: Illegal Root Structures
- 5.4. Preliminaries
- Chapter 6. Consonantism
- 6.1. 'Nasalization', *-VNT- ∞ *-VT-
- 6.2. Voicing Alternations
- 6.3. Sibilant Clusters
- 6.4. Other Irregularities
- Chapter 7. Vocalism
- 7.1. Initial Vowels
- 7.2. Alternations between Front and Back Vowels
- 7.3. Alternations between Low and High Vowels
- 7.4. Alternations between Monophthongs and Diphthongs
- 7.5. Length Alternations
- 7.6. IE *a
- Chapter 8. Analysis
- 8.1. Semantics
- 8.2. Stratification
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Word Index.