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Grammar and typology / edited by Osten Dahl, Maria Koptjevskaja-Tamm.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- The Circum-Baltic languages: typology and contact ; v.2
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Linguistic geography.
- Baltic Sea Region--Languages.
- Baltic Sea Region.
- Physical Description:
- xxiii, 446 p.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2001.
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- 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.
- ISBN:
- 9786612161780
- 9781282161788
- 1282161784
- 9789027297273
- 9027297274
- OCLC:
- 813294407
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