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Past and present : typology and contact / edited by Osten Dahl, Maria Koptjevskaja-Tamm.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Studies in language companion series.
- The Circum-Baltic languages ; v.1
- 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.
- Language Note:
- In English.
- 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 branches of Indo-European - Baltic, Germanic and Slavic. This volume studies selected phenomena in the grammars of the circum-Baltic languages.
- 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 1: Survey of selected Circum-Baltic languages and language varieties
- The Latvian language and its dialects
- The Lithuanian language and its dialects
- Russian varieties in the southeastern Baltic area
- Swedish dialects around the Baltic Sea
- The Finnic languages
- Part 2: Early history f the Circum-Baltic languages
- The origin of the Scandinavian languages
- Baltic influence on Finnic languages
- Part 3 Contact phenomena in minor Circum-Baltic languages
- The role of language contact in the formation of Karelian, past and present
- Syntactic code-copying in Karaim
- Yiddish in the Baltic region
- The North Russian Romani dialect
- On some Circum-Baltic features of the Pskov-Novgorod (Northwestern Central Russian) dialect
- Name index
- Language index
- Subject index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786612161797
- 9781282161795
- 1282161792
- 9789027297280
- 9027297282
- OCLC:
- 732804289
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