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Circum-Baltic Languages. Volume 1 : Past and Present.

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 Ur.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Dahl, Östen (Editor ), Koptjevskaja-Tamm, Maria (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: John Benjamins Publishing Company 2001.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • 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.