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The principles of making maps and commmmentaries to the Atlas of the Baltic Languages
The principles of making maps and commentaries to The Atlas of the Baltic Languages People in Lithuania and Latvia speak related languages which belong to the Baltic branch. The fate of both states was also similar.
Asta Leskauskaitė+1 more
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Baltic and Finnic linguistic relations reflected in geolinguistic studies of the Baltic languages
The article provides insight into the reflection of Baltic and Finnic language contacts in geolinguistic studies of the Baltic languages. These contacts have a rather long history, and are particularly intense between the Latvian language and Finnic ...
Anna Stafecka
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The South Estonian language islands in the context of the Central Baltic area
This article offers a comparative analysis of several morphosyntactic and phonological features in the South Estonian language islands: Leivu, Lutsi, and Kraasna. The objective is to give an overview of the distribution of selected features, their (in)stability over time, and discuss their form and use in a broader areal context.
Miina Norvik+6 more
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Atlas of the Baltic languages: from idea to pilot project
Atlas of the Baltic languages: from idea to pilot project Dialectologists from Latvian Language Institute of the University of Latvia and the Department of Language History and Dialectology of the Institute of the Lithuanian Language, have developed a ...
Anna Stafecka
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Atlas of the Baltic languages: plant names of Slavonic origin
Atlas of the Baltic Languages: Plant Names of Slavonic Origin The article investigates Slavonic-derived plant names in dialects of the two surviving Baltic languages – Latvian and Lithuanian.
Ilga Jansone, Anna Stafecka
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On expressions for the otherworld in Baltic languages [PDF]
The article analyses expressions for the otherworld in Baltic languages. Attention is given in particular to expressions containing the lexeme ‘world’ and to the lexeme’s origin – literally ‘a place under the sun’ – is highlighted. Comparison with close languages (Slavic) and not only linguistic approach, but also some data from folkloristics and ...
Naďa Vaverová
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Non-grammatical evidentiality in the Baltic language
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Aurelija Usonienė, Birutė Ryvitytė
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Secondary predication in the Baltic languages: a preliminary overview [PDF]
Reikšminiai žodžiai: Antrinė predikacija; Antrinė predikacija baltų kalbose; Aplinkybės; Aprašomieji, rezultatyviniai ir būdo adverbialai; Depiktyvas; Padėtis; Rezultatyvas; Semantikos žemėlapis; Semantinis žemėlapis; Adverbial; Depictive; Depictive, resultative and manner adverbials; Posture; Resultative; Secondary predication; Semantic ...
Benita Riaubienė
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Expressing Distance in the Baltic Languages: Remarks on the Use of an Extended RCC
The aim of this paper is to demonstrate how the distance between two objects is expressed in the Baltic languages in a geometric framework. The geometric framework in this research is based on Region Connection Calculus (Randell et al., 1992), representing different spatial relations between two circles depending on the primitive topological relation ...
Eglė Žilinskaitė-Šinkūnienė+2 more
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Academic Writing in the Baltic States
In the project Bwrite (Academic Writing in the Baltic States: Rhetorical Structures through Cultures and Languages), we aim to address the lack of an empirically grounded holistic understanding of non-Anglophone writing traditions by mapping the ...
Anni Jürine+6 more
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