Circum-Baltic languages : typology and contact

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Circum-Baltic languages : typology and contact

edited by Östen Dahl and Maria Koptjevskaja-Tamm

(Studies in language companion series / series editors, Werner Abraham, Michael Noonan, v. 54-55)

J. Benjamins, c2001

  • v. 1 : eur
  • v. 1 : us
  • v. 2 : eur
  • v. 2 : us

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Contents. v. 1. Past and present -- v. 2. Grammar and typology

Includes bibliographical references and indexes

Description and Table of Contents

Volume

v. 1 : us ISBN 9781588110206

Description

The area around the Baltic Sea has for millennia been a meeting-place for people of different origins. Among the circum-Baltic languages, we find three major branches of Indo-European - Baltic, Germanic, and Slavic, the Baltic-Finnic languages from the Uralic phylum and several others. The circum-Baltic area is an ideal place to study areal and contact phenomena in languages. The present set of two volumes look at the circum-Baltic languages from a typological, areal and historical perspective, trying to relate the intricate patterns of similarities and dissimilarities to the societal background. In Volume I, surveys of dialect areas and language groups bear witness to the immense linguistic diversity in the area with special attention to less well-known languages and language varieties and their contacts.

Table of Contents

  • 1. Part 0: Introduction
  • 2. The Circum-Baltic Languages: Introduction to the volume (by Dahl, Osten)
  • 3. Part 1: Survey of selected Circum-Baltic languages and language varieties
  • 4. The Latvian language and its dialects (by Balode, Laimute)
  • 5. The Lithuanian language and its dialects (by Balode, Laimute)
  • 6. Russian varieties in the southeastern Baltic area: Urban Russian of the 19th century (by Cekmonas, Valeriy)
  • 7. Russian varieties in the southeastern Baltic area: Rural dialects (by Cekmonas, Valeriy)
  • 8. Swedish dialects around the Baltic Sea (by Rendahl, Anne-Charlott)
  • 9. The Finnic languages (by Laakso, Johanna)
  • 10. Part 2: Early history of the Circum-Baltic languages
  • 11. The origin of the Scandinavian languages (by Dahl, Osten)
  • 12. Baltic influence on Finnic languages (by Larsson, Lars-Gunnar)
  • 13. Part 3: Contact phenomena in minor Circum-Baltic languages
  • 14. The role of language contact in the formation of Karelian, past and present (by Pugh, Stefan M.)
  • 15. Syntactic code-copying in Karaim (by Csato, Eva Agnes)
  • 16. Yiddish in the Baltic region (by Jacobs, Neil G.)
  • 17. The North Russian Romani dialect: Interference and Code Switching (by Rusakov, Alexandr Yu.)
  • 18. On some Circum-Baltic features of the Pskov-Novgorod (Northwestern Central Russian) dialect (by Cekmonas, Valeriy)
  • 19. Appendix
  • 20. Name index
  • 21. Language index
  • 22. Subject index
Volume

v. 2 : us ISBN 9781588110428

Description

The area around the Baltic Sea has for millennia been a meeting-place for people of different origins. Among the circum-Baltic languages, we find three major branches of Indo-European -Baltic, Germanic, and Slavic, the Baltic-Finnic languages from the Uralic phylum and several others. The circum-Baltic area is an ideal place to study areal and contact phenomena in languages. The present set of two volumes look at the circum-Baltic languages from a typological, areal and historical perspective, trying to relate the intricate patterns of similarities and dissimilarities to the societal background. In Volume II, selected phenomena in the grammars of the circum-Baltic languages are studied in a cross-linguistic perspective.

Table of Contents

  • 1. Part 0: Introduction
  • 2. The Circum-Baltic Languages: Introduction to the volume (by Dahl, Osten)
  • 3. Part 4: Selected topics in the grammar of the Circum-Baltic languages
  • 4. Impersonals and passives in Baltic and Finnic (by Holvoet, Axel)
  • 5. On the development of the nominative object in East Baltic (by Ambrazas, Vytautus)
  • 6. Lexical evidence for the parallel development of the Latvian and Livonian verb particles (by Walchli, Bernhard)
  • 7. On the developments of the Estonian aspect: The verbal particle ara (by Metslang, Helle)
  • 8. Case systems and syntax in Latvian and Estonian (by Metuzale-Kangere, Baiba)
  • 9. Genitive positions in Baltic and Finnic languages (by Christen, Simon)
  • 10. Part 5: Typological perspectives
  • 11. "A piece of the cake" and "a cup of tea": Partitive and pseudo-partitive nominal constructions in the Circum-Baltic languages (by Koptjevskaja-Tamm, Maria)
  • 12. Nonverbal predication in the Circum-Baltic languages (by Stassen, Leon)
  • 13. On Circum-Baltic instrumentals and comitatives: To and fro coherence (by Stolz, Thomas)
  • 14. Part 6: Synthesis
  • 15. The Circum-Baltic languages: An areal-typological approach (by Koptjevskaja-Tamm, Maria)
  • 16. Appendix
  • 17. Name index
  • 18. Language index
  • 19. Subject index
Volume

v. 1 : eur ISBN 9789027230577

Description

The area around the Baltic Sea has for millennia been a meeting-place for people of different origins. Among the circum-Baltic languages, we find three major branches of Indo-European - Baltic, Germanic, and Slavic, the Baltic-Finnic languages from the Uralic phylum and several others. The circum-Baltic area is an ideal place to study areal and contact phenomena in languages. The present set of two volumes look at the circum-Baltic languages from a typological, areal and historical perspective, trying to relate the intricate patterns of similarities and dissimilarities to the societal background. In Volume I, surveys of dialect areas and language groups bear witness to the immense linguistic diversity in the area with special attention to less well-known languages and language varieties and their contacts.

Table of Contents

  • 1. Part 0: Introduction
  • 2. The Circum-Baltic Languages: Introduction to the volume (by Dahl, Osten)
  • 3. Part 1: Survey of selected Circum-Baltic languages and language varieties
  • 4. The Latvian language and its dialects (by Balode, Laimute)
  • 5. The Lithuanian language and its dialects (by Balode, Laimute)
  • 6. Russian varieties in the southeastern Baltic area: Urban Russian of the 19th century (by Cekmonas, Valeriy)
  • 7. Russian varieties in the southeastern Baltic area: Rural dialects (by Cekmonas, Valeriy)
  • 8. Swedish dialects around the Baltic Sea (by Rendahl, Anne-Charlott)
  • 9. The Finnic languages (by Laakso, Johanna)
  • 10. Part 2: Early history of the Circum-Baltic languages
  • 11. The origin of the Scandinavian languages (by Dahl, Osten)
  • 12. Baltic influence on Finnic languages (by Larsson, Lars-Gunnar)
  • 13. Part 3: Contact phenomena in minor Circum-Baltic languages
  • 14. The role of language contact in the formation of Karelian, past and present (by Pugh, Stefan M.)
  • 15. Syntactic code-copying in Karaim (by Csato, Eva Agnes)
  • 16. Yiddish in the Baltic region (by Jacobs, Neil G.)
  • 17. The North Russian Romani dialect: Interference and Code Switching (by Rusakov, Alexandr Yu.)
  • 18. On some Circum-Baltic features of the Pskov-Novgorod (Northwestern Central Russian) dialect (by Cekmonas, Valeriy)
  • 19. Appendix
  • 20. Name index
  • 21. Language index
  • 22. Subject index
Volume

v. 2 : eur ISBN 9789027230591

Description

The area around the Baltic Sea has for millennia been a meeting-place for people of different origins. Among the circum-Baltic languages, we find three major branches of Indo-European -Baltic, Germanic, and Slavic, the Baltic-Finnic languages from the Uralic phylum and several others. The circum-Baltic area is an ideal place to study areal and contact phenomena in languages. The present set of two volumes look at the circum-Baltic languages from a typological, areal and historical perspective, trying to relate the intricate patterns of similarities and dissimilarities to the societal background. In Volume II, selected phenomena in the grammars of the circum-Baltic languages are studied in a cross-linguistic perspective.

Table of Contents

  • 1. Part 0: Introduction
  • 2. The Circum-Baltic Languages: Introduction to the volume (by Dahl, Osten)
  • 3. Part 4: Selected topics in the grammar of the Circum-Baltic languages
  • 4. Impersonals and passives in Baltic and Finnic (by Holvoet, Axel)
  • 5. On the development of the nominative object in East Baltic (by Ambrazas, Vytautus)
  • 6. Lexical evidence for the parallel development of the Latvian and Livonian verb particles (by Walchli, Bernhard)
  • 7. On the developments of the Estonian aspect: The verbal particle ara (by Metslang, Helle)
  • 8. Case systems and syntax in Latvian and Estonian (by Metuzale-Kangere, Baiba)
  • 9. Genitive positions in Baltic and Finnic languages (by Christen, Simon)
  • 10. Part 5: Typological perspectives
  • 11. "A piece of the cake" and "a cup of tea": Partitive and pseudo-partitive nominal constructions in the Circum-Baltic languages (by Koptjevskaja-Tamm, Maria)
  • 12. Nonverbal predication in the Circum-Baltic languages (by Stassen, Leon)
  • 13. On Circum-Baltic instrumentals and comitatives: To and fro coherence (by Stolz, Thomas)
  • 14. Part 6: Synthesis
  • 15. The Circum-Baltic languages: An areal-typological approach (by Koptjevskaja-Tamm, Maria)
  • 16. Appendix
  • 17. Name index
  • 18. Language index
  • 19. Subject index

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    BA55368882
  • ISBN
    • 9027230579
    • 1588110206
    • 9027230595
    • 1588110427
  • LCCN
    2001025046
  • Country Code
    ne
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    Amsterdam ; Philadelphia
  • Pages/Volumes
    2 v.
  • Size
    23 cm
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