Circum-Baltic Languages: Typology and Contact, Volume 2: Grammar and Typology
Östen Dahl, Maria Koptjevskaja-Tamm
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.
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Year:
2001
Publisher:
John Benjamins Publishing Company
Language:
english
ISBN 10:
9027230595
ISBN 13:
9789027230591
Series:
Studies in Language Companion Series 55
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PDF, 2.45 MB
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english, 2001