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Record Nr.

UNINA9910838177503321

Autore

Jakob Anthony

Titolo

A History of East Baltic Through Language Contact

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boston : , : BRILL, , 2023

©2024

ISBN

90-04-68647-9

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (460 pages)

Collana

Leiden Studies in Indo-European Series ; ; v.24

Disciplina

491/.9

Soggetti

Baltic languages - History

Baltic languages - Grammar, Historical

Baltic languages - Foreign elements

Languages in contact

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- ‎Contents -- ‎Acknowledgements -- ‎Tables -- ‎Symbols and Abbreviations -- ‎Data Sources and Conventions -- ‎Introduction -- ‎Part 1. Contacts with Known Languages -- ‎Chapter 1. Baltic-Slavic contacts -- ‎1.1. Early Slavic → Baltic Loans -- ‎1.2. Early Baltic → Slavic Loans? -- ‎Chapter 2. Early Germanic → Baltic Loans -- ‎Chapter 3. Baltic → Finnic Loans -- ‎3.1. Preliminaries -- ‎3.2. Baltic Loanwords with an IE Etymology -- ‎3.3. Analysis of Sound Substitutions -- ‎3.4. Loans from Proto-Finnic to Proto-Baltic? -- ‎3.5. Common loans from unknown sources? -- ‎3.6. Analysis of contact relationship -- ‎Chapter 4. Loanwords into Other Uralic Languages -- ‎4.1. Sámi -- ‎4.2. Mordvin -- ‎4.3. Mari -- ‎4.4. Permic -- ‎4.5. Conclusion -- ‎Part 2. Contacts with Unknown Languages -- ‎Chapter 5. Introduction -- ‎5.1. Research History -- ‎5.2. Methodological Considerations -- ‎5.3. Excursus: Illegal Root Structures -- ‎5.4. Preliminaries -- ‎Chapter 6. Consonantism -- ‎6.1. 'Nasalization', *-VNT- ∞ *-VT- -- ‎6.2. Voicing Alternations -- ‎6.3. Sibilant Clusters -- ‎6.4. Other Irregularities -- ‎Chapter 7. Vocalism -- ‎7.1. Initial Vowels -- ‎7.2. Alternations between Front and Back Vowels -- ‎7.3. Alternations between Low and High Vowels -- ‎7.4. Alternations between Monophthongs and Diphthongs -- ‎7.5. Length Alternations -- ‎7.6. IE *a -- ‎Chapter 8. Analysis -- ‎8.1. Semantics -- ‎8.2. Stratification



-- ‎Conclusion -- ‎Bibliography -- ‎Word Index.

Sommario/riassunto

"The East Baltic languages are well known for their conservative phonology as compared to other Indo-European languages, which has led to a stereotype that the Balts developed in isolation without much contact with other speech communities. This book challenges that view, taking a deep dive into the East Baltic lexicon and peeling away the layers of prehistoric borrowings in the process. As well as significant contact events with known languages, the lexicon also reveals evidence of contact with unattested languages from which previous populations must have shifted"--