Convergence and divergence in the eastern Circum-Baltic area : volume 1, a synthetic view, especially on Finnic, and case studies.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Wiemer, Björn, editor.

Arkadiev , Peter, editor.

Kehayov, Petar, editor.

Blokland, Rogier, editor.

Series:

Studia Typologica.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Baltic-Finnic languages--Case.

Baltic-Finnic languages.

Semiotics.

Historical linguistics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Berlin : De Gruyter, 2025.

Summary:

The volume summarizes research on the structural convergence and divergence of languages in the eastern part of the Circum-Baltic Area by providing its profile against a genealogical and typological background. Methodological issues needed to assess factors that condition convergence in contact superposition zones, or that otherwise lead to differentiation among related varieties, are discussed. Against this backdrop synthetic surveys of major and minor Finnic languages are provided, followed by corpus-based case studies on morphosyntactic phenomena. The volume thus presents both a synthetic compendium and a series of specific up-to-date studies, with special attention to micro-variation.

Contents:

Frontmatter Contents Preface Convergence and divergence in the eastern Circum-Baltic Area : a triangulation approach : introductory chapter The area and its language varieties : Finnic Inherited features, grammatical change, and the influence of early language contacts in Finnic Votic and Ingrian Estonian Livonian Studies on specific phenomena Finnic participles and participial constructions from typological, intra-genetic, and areal perspectives Object partitive of negation : an areal perspective Case selection for the direct object of negated verbs in Russian dialects The nominative object in modern Northern and Western Russian dialects Index Language index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages) and index.

ISBN:

9783111165677