Circum-Baltic Languages
Volume 2: Grammar and Typology
Editors
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.
[Studies in Language Companion Series, 55] 2001. xx, 423 pp.
Publishing status: Available
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
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Part 0: Introduction | p. xiii
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The Circum-Baltic Languages: Introduction to the volumeÖsten Dahl and Maria Koptjevskaja-Tamm | pp. xv–xx
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Part 4: Selected topics in the grammar of the Circum-Baltic languages | p. 1
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Impersonals and passives in Baltic and FinnicAxel Holvoet | pp. 363–389
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On the development of the nominative object in East BalticVytautus Ambrazas | pp. 391–412
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Lexical evidence for the parallel development of the Latvian and Livonian verb particlesBernhard Wälchli | pp. 413–441
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On the developments of the Estonian aspect: The verbal particle äraHelle Metslang | pp. 443–479
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Case systems and syntax in Latvian and EstonianBaiba Metuzāle-Kangere and Kersti Boiko | pp. 481–497
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Genitive positions in Baltic and Finnic languagesSimon Christen | pp. 499–520
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Part 5: Typological perspectives | p. 521
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“A piece of the cake” and “a cup of tea”: Partitive and pseudo-partitive nominal constructions in the Circum-Baltic languagesMaria Koptjevskaja-Tamm | pp. 523–568
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Nonverbal predication in the Circum-Baltic languagesLeon Stassen | pp. 569–590
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On Circum-Baltic instrumentals and comitatives: To and fro coherenceThomas Stolz | pp. 591–612
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Part 6: Synthesis | p. 613
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The Circum-Baltic languages: An areal-typological approachMaria Koptjevskaja-Tamm and Bernhard Wälchli | pp. 615–750
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Appendix | pp. 751–761
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Name index | pp. 763–769
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Language index | pp. 771–776
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Subject index | pp. 777–786
Subjects
Main BIC Subject
CF: Linguistics
Main BISAC Subject
LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General
U.S. Library of Congress Control Number: 2001025046