Circum-Baltic Languages: Volume 1: Past and Present

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Östen Dahl, Maria Koptjevskaja-Tamm
John Benjamins Publishing, 31.12.2001 - 382 sivua
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.
 

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The Latvian language and its dialects
3
The Lithuanian language and its dialects
41
Russian varieties in the southeastern Baltic area
81
Swedish dialects around the Baltic Sea
137
The Finnic languages
179
Early history f the CircumBaltic languages
213
The origin of the Scandinavian languages
215
Baltic influence on Finnic languages
237
The role of language contact in the formation of Karelian past and present
257
Syntactic codecopying in Karaim
271
Yiddish in the Baltic region
285
The North Russian Romani dialect
313
On some CircumBaltic features of the PskovNovgorod Northwestern Central Russian dialect
339
Name index
361
Language index
369
Subject index
375

Part 3 Contact phenomena in minor CircumBaltic languages
255

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