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Record Nr.

UNINA9910806981703321

Titolo

Past and present : typology and contact / / edited by Osten Dahl, Maria Koptjevskaja-Tamm

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2001

ISBN

1-282-16179-2

9786612161797

90-272-9728-2

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

xxiii, 446 p

Collana

The Circum-Baltic languages ; ; v.1

Altri autori (Persone)

DahlOsten

Koptjevskaja-TammMaria

Disciplina

491/.9

Soggetti

Linguistic geography

Baltic Sea Region Languages

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

The Circum-Baltic Languages -- 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.

Sommario/riassunto

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 branches of Indo-European - Baltic, Germanic and Slavic. This volume studies selected phenomena in the grammars of the



circum-Baltic languages.