Baltic Linguistics

Author : Peter Arkadiev,Axel Holvoet,Björn Wiemer
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2015-08-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110343953

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Contemporary Approaches to Baltic Linguistics by Peter Arkadiev,Axel Holvoet,Björn Wiemer Pdf

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 Baltic languages, on the one hand, and the current agenda of the theoretical and typological approaches to language, on the other. The book comprises 13 articles dealing with various aspects of phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, lexicon, and their interactions, plus a lengthy introduction, whose aim is to outline the state of the art in the research on the Baltic languages. The contributions are data-driven, being based on field-work, corpus research, and data published in the sources not accessible to the general linguistic audience. On the other hand, all contributions are informed in the relevant contemporary linguistic theories and in the advances of linguistic typology. Some of the contributions aim at a more detailed, accurate and theoretically informed description of the data, others look at the Baltic material from a more theoretical point of view, still others assume an areal-typological or contact perspective.

Author : Peter Arkadiev,Axel Holvoet,Björn Wiemer
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2015-08-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110394986

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Contemporary Approaches to Baltic Linguistics by Peter Arkadiev,Axel Holvoet,Björn Wiemer Pdf

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 Baltic languages, on the one hand, and the current agenda of the theoretical and typological approaches to language, on the other. The book comprises 13 articles dealing with various aspects of phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, lexicon, and their interactions, plus a lengthy introduction, whose aim is to outline the state of the art in the research on the Baltic languages. The contributions are data-driven, being based on field-work, corpus research, and data published in the sources not accessible to the general linguistic audience. On the other hand, all contributions are informed in the relevant contemporary linguistic theories and in the advances of linguistic typology. Some of the contributions aim at a more detailed, accurate and theoretically informed description of the data, others look at the Baltic material from a more theoretical point of view, still others assume an areal-typological or contact perspective.

Author : Thomas F. Magner,William R. Schmalstieg
Publisher : Penn State University Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : UCSC:32106001611331

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Baltic Linguistics by Thomas F. Magner,William R. Schmalstieg Pdf

This significant collection of papers is based upon the first conference on Baltic linguistics held in the United States. The articles, all in English, include discussions of vocalic phonemes of Old Prussian Elbing vocabulary, the state of linguistics in Soviet Lithuania, base shapes of Latvian morphemes, and Baltic verb inflection. In addition to serving as a fundamental sourcebook for linguists interested in the Baltic area, this volume will be of particular value to Slavic and Indo-European scholars engaged in comparative research work.

Author : Philip Baldi,Pietro U. Dini
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1588115844

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Studies in Baltic and Indo-European Linguistics by Philip Baldi,Pietro U. Dini Pdf

This collection of twenty-nine research papers is dedicated to the eminent Balticist, Slavicist and Indo-Europeanist, William R. Schmalstieg in commemoration of his seventy-fifth birthday. It contains contributions by specialists of mainly Baltic and Indo-European linguistics which are reflective of Schmalstieg's own scholarly interests over the decades of his career, including technical aspects of Baltic and Indo-European phonology, morphology and syntax, etymology, language universals, the history of linguistics and the Baltic text tradition. Contributors include prominent scholars from the United States and Europe, both east and west. All papers are in English, and all linguistic material in less commonly known languages is provided with an English translation, making the contents accessible to a wider audience of readers.

Author : Sanita Lazdiņa,Heiko F. Marten
Publisher : Springer
Page : 515 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2018-11-03
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781137569141

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Multilingualism in the Baltic States by Sanita Lazdiņa,Heiko F. Marten Pdf

This edited collection provides an overview of linguistic diversity, societal discourses and interaction between majorities and minorities in the Baltic States. It presents a wide range of methods and research paradigms including folk linguistics, discourse analysis, narrative analyses, code alternation, ethnographic observations, language learning motivation, languages in education and language acquisition. Grouped thematically, its chapters examine regional varieties and minority languages (Latgalian, Võro, urban dialects in Lithuania, Polish in Lithuania); the integration of the Russian language and its speakers; and the role of international languages like English in Baltic societies. The editors’ introductory and concluding chapters provide a comparative perspective that situates these issues within the particular history of the region and broader debates on language and nationalism at a time of both increased globalization and ethno-regionalism. This book will appeal in particular to students and scholars of multilingualism, sociolinguistics, language discourses and language policy, and provide a valuable resource for researchers focusing on Baltic States, Northern Europe and the post-Soviet world in the related fields of history, political science, sociology and anthropology.

Author : Pietro U. Dini
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2014-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789401210461

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Prelude to Baltic Linguistics by Pietro U. Dini Pdf

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 about the Baltic languages which were circulating during Renaissance Palaeocomparativism: the Slavic and the closely connected Illyrian theory, the Latin theory (with its variants: the semi-Latin, the neo-Latin, and the Wallachian), also the Quadripartite theory. Minor but significant linguistic ideas are also discussed here, for example the emergence of a Hebrew theory and the Greek theory about Old Prussian. The synoptic juxtaposition of the different ideas shows very well the state of knowledge in Europe about the languages which later would be called ‘Baltic’ and the modernity of those ideas within European Renaissance linguistic debate leading to the rise of comparative linguistic genealogy.

Author : Jānis Endzelīns
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9027919151

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Jānis Endzelīns' Comparative Phonology and Morphology of the Baltic Languages by Jānis Endzelīns Pdf

Author : Östen Dahl,Maria Koptjevskaja-Tamm
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027230579

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The Circum-Baltic Languages by Östen Dahl,Maria Koptjevskaja-Tamm Pdf

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.

Author : A. A. Barentsen,B. M. Groen,R. Sprenger
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 905183246X

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Studies in West Slavic and Baltic Linguistics by A. A. Barentsen,B. M. Groen,R. Sprenger Pdf

Author : Henning Andersen
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2011-07-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110819717

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Reconstructing Prehistorical Dialects by Henning Andersen Pdf

TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS is a series of books that open new perspectives in our understanding of language. The series publishes state-of-the-art work on core areas of linguistics across theoretical frameworks as well as studies that provide new insights by building bridges to neighbouring fields such as neuroscience and cognitive science. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS considers itself a forum for cutting-edge research based on solid empirical data on language in its various manifestations, including sign languages. It regards linguistic variation in its synchronic and diachronic dimensions as well as in its social contexts as important sources of insight for a better understanding of the design of linguistic systems and the ecology and evolution of language. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS publishes monographs and outstanding dissertations as well as edited volumes, which provide the opportunity to address controversial topics from different empirical and theoretical viewpoints. High quality standards are ensured through anonymous reviewing.

Author : Arvids Ziedonis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Baltic philology
ISBN : UOM:39015005858850

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Baltic Literature and Linguistics by Arvids Ziedonis Pdf

Author : Ineta Dabašinskiené,Nicole Nau,Aurelia Usoniene
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2012-01-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781443836852

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Multiple Perspectives in Linguistic Research on Baltic Languages by Ineta Dabašinskiené,Nicole Nau,Aurelia Usoniene Pdf

The ten contributions to this volume present original research on grammar and discourse in modern Lithuanian and Latvian. They reflect the diversity of approaches in linguistic research on Baltic languages that has developed in recent years, after a period where these languages were studied almost exclusively from the perspective of historical-comparative linguistics. Current research perspectives include, among others, perspectives from discourse analysis, sociolinguistics, language acquisition research, corpus linguistics, contrastive studies, and linguistic typology. The studies in this volume explore new ways of describing the system and use of Latvian or Lithuanian from a synchronic, non-normative point of view. They focus on grammatical categories and constructions (modality, evidentiality, case, existential clauses), grammatical characteristics of lexical classes (reflexive verbs, numerals), the characteristics of certain forms of discourse (academic discourse, food discourse), and the effects of an ideology of “correct language” on language users.

Author : Östen Dahl,Maria Koptjevskaja-Tamm
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2001-12-31
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027297273

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Circum-Baltic Languages by Östen Dahl,Maria Koptjevskaja-Tamm Pdf

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.

Author : K. Muischnek,K. Müürisep
Publisher : IOS Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2018-09-28
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781614999126

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Human Language Technologies – The Baltic Perspective by K. Muischnek,K. Müürisep Pdf

Computational linguistics, speech processing, natural language processing and language technologies in general have all become increasingly important in an era of all-pervading technological development. This book, Human Language Technologies – The Baltic Perspective, presents the proceedings of the 8th International Baltic Human Language Technologies Conference (Baltic HLT 2018), held in Tartu, Estonia, on 27-29 September 2018. The main aim of Baltic HLT is to provide a forum for sharing new ideas and recent advances in computational linguistics and related disciplines, and to promote cooperation between the research communities of the Baltic States and beyond. The 24 articles in this volume cover a wide range of subjects, including machine translation, automatic morphology, text classification, various language resources, and NLP pipelines, as well as speech technology; the latter being the most popular topic with 8 papers. Delivering an overview of the state-of-the-art language technologies from a Baltic perspective, the book will be of interest to all those whose work involves language processing in whatever form.

Author : Frederik Herman Henri Kortlandt
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9042026529

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Baltica & Balto-Slavica by Frederik Herman Henri Kortlandt Pdf

This volume offers a discussion of the phonological, accentological and morphological development of the Baltic languages and their Indo-European origins. The first half of this book is about Baltic historical phonology and morphology and the second half is about Prussian. The emphasis is on the relative chronology of sound changes and on the development of the flexional and derivational categories of nouns, pronouns and verbs. It is argued that the Balto-Slavic acute tone was a glottal stop which developed from the Indo-European laryngeals and from Winter's law and that the original circumflex continues other vocalic sequences. Special points of attention are the gen.pl. endings, ē and ī/jā stems, and thematic and athematic present endings. The second half of the book contains a comparative analysis of the three Prussian catechisms, resulting in the conclusion that they represent three consecutive stages of a real linguistic system. It includes a discussion of the Prussian accent shift, initial vowels, diphthongs, infinitives, verb classes, participles and traces of ablauting paradigms. The final part of the book offers a full linguistic interpretation of the three Prussian catechisms on the basis of the preceding chapters, followed by a list of references and a word index. The book is of interest to Balticists, Slavicists, Indo-Europeanists, and other historical linguists.