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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 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 I, surveys of dialect areas and language groups bear witness to the immense linguistic diversity in the area with special attention to less well-known languages and language varieties and their contacts.
[Studies in Language Companion Series, 54] 2001. xx, 382 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 21 October 2008
Published online on 21 October 2008
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Table of Contents
- Part 0: Introduction
- The Circum-Baltic Languages: Introduction to the volumeÖsten Dahl and Maria Koptjevskaja-Tamm | pp. xv–xx
- Part 1: Survey of selected Circum-Baltic languages and language varieties
- The Latvian language and its dialectsLaimute Balode and Axel Holvoet | pp. iii–xl
- The Lithuanian language and its dialectsLaimute Balode and Axel Holvoet | pp. xli–lxxix
- Russian varieties in the southeastern Baltic area: Urban Russian of the 19th centuryValeriy Čekmonas | pp. lxxxi–xcix
- Russian varieties in the southeastern Baltic area: Rural dialectsValeriy Čekmonas | pp. ci–cxxxvi
- Swedish dialects around the Baltic SeaAnne-Charlott Rendahl | pp. cxxxvii–clxxvii
- The Finnic languagesJohanna Laakso | pp. clxxix–ccxii
- Part 2: Early history of the Circum-Baltic languages
- The origin of the Scandinavian languagesÖsten Dahl | pp. ccxv–ccxxxv
- Baltic influence on Finnic languagesLars-Gunnar Larsson | pp. ccxxxvii–ccliii
- Part 3: Contact phenomena in minor Circum-Baltic languages
- The role of language contact in the formation of Karelian, past and presentStefan M. Pugh | pp. cclvii–cclxx
- Syntactic code-copying in KaraimÉva Ágnes Csató | pp. cclxxi–cclxxxiii
- Yiddish in the Baltic regionNeil G. Jacobs | pp. cclxxxv–cccxi
- The North Russian Romani dialect: Interference and Code SwitchingAlexandr Yu. Rusakov | pp. cccxiii–cccxxxviii
- On some Circum-Baltic features of the Pskov-Novgorod (Northwestern Central Russian) dialectValeriy Čekmonas | pp. cccxxxix–ccclix
- Appendix
- Name index | pp. I-1–I-7
- Language index | pp. I-9–I-14
- Subject index | pp. I-15–I-22
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