02865nam 2200541Ia 450 991080698170332120240513073326.01-282-16179-2978661216179790-272-9728-2(CKB)1000000000552458(MiAaPQ)EBC622298(Au-PeEL)EBL622298(CaPaEBR)ebr10022300(CaONFJC)MIL216179(OCoLC)732804289(NjHacI)991000000000552458(EXLCZ)99100000000055245820010124d2001 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierPast and present typology and contact /edited by Osten Dahl, Maria Koptjevskaja-Tamm1st ed.Amsterdam ;Philadelphia John Benjamins Pub. Co.2001xxiii, 446 pThe Circum-Baltic languages ;v.11-58811-020-6 90-272-3057-9 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.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.Studies in language companion series.Linguistic geographyBaltic Sea RegionLanguagesLinguistic geography.491/.9Dahl Osten403070Koptjevskaja-Tamm Maria220721MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910806981703321Past and present4002165UNINA