UID:
edocfu_9959240603502883
Format:
xxiii, 446 p.
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-282-16178-4
,
9786612161780
,
90-272-9727-4
Series Statement:
The Circum-Baltic languages: typology and contact ; v.2
Content:
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.
Note:
The Circum-Baltic Languages -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- List of abbreviations -- List of contributors -- Introduction -- The Circum-Baltic Languages -- Part 4: Selected topics in the grammar of the Circum-Baltic languages -- Impersonals and passives in Baltic and Finnic -- On the development of the nominative bject in East Baltic -- Lexical evidence for the parallel development of the Latvian and Livonian verb particles -- On the developments of the Estonian aspect -- Case systems and syntax in Latvian and Estonian -- Genitive positions in Baltic and Finnic languages -- Part 5: Typological perspectives -- "A piece of the cake "and "a cup of tea" -- Nonverbal predication in the Circum-Baltic languages -- On Circum-Baltic instrumentals and comitatives -- Part 6: Synthesis -- The Circum-Baltic languages -- Appendix -- Name index -- Language index -- Subject index -- The STUDIES IN LANGUAGE COMPANION SERIES.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-58811-042-7
Additional Edition:
ISBN 90-272-3059-5
Language:
English
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