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Bilingual Parallel Corpora Featuring the Circum-Baltic Languages within the Russian National Corpus
The paper presents parallel corpora within the Russian National Corpus (RNC) featuring Circum-Baltic/Russian language pairs and describes the choice of texts, morphological annotation and possible applications.
Dmitri Sitchinava, Natalia Perkova
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Tonogenesis and tone renewal in Baltic and Slavic languages
Abstract This article discusses the rise of new tones in Baltic and Slavic languages. It draws attention to the underlying mechanisms in the rise of these new tones and adduces typological parallels for some of the sound changes involved.
T. Pronk
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On distributive pronouns in the Baltic languages
This article deals with the origin of the three distributive pronouns of the Baltic languages: Old Prussian erains, Lithuanian kiekvíenas, Latvian ikviêns ‘everybody, everyone, each one’. They are all characterised by the numeral ‘one’ (OPr. ains, Lith. víenas, Latvian viêns), originally used as a pronominaliser, but they differ in their first element,
Dan Petit
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A Few More Possible Traces of the Lost Language Chain of North-East Europe [PDF]
There are numerous exceptional similarities between some of the east- and southward Finnic languages and Permic languages, in particular in case of the Veps, South-Estonian and Komi languages.
Ago Künnap
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R-loci and Distributivity: Insights from Czech Sign Language
This article describes a distributivity pattern in Czech Sign Language. The pattern is signed via a reduplication at the R-loci and resembles the distributivity behavior of the binominal each that is ...
Mojmír Dočekal, Hana Strachoňová
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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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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 ...
Eglė Žilinskaitė-Šinkūnienė +2 more
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Фоно-типологические расстояния между балтийскими и славянскими языками
Phono-typological distances between Baltic and Slavonic languages The application of “Chi-square” criterion allows us to measure the distances between languages objectively.
Юрий [IUriĭ] Тамбовцев [Tambovtsev]
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All's well that ends well [PDF]
A few years ago, Jasanoff adopted the central tenet of my accentological theory, viz. that the Balto-Slavic acute was a stød or glottal stop, not a rising tone (cf. Kortlandt 1975, 1977, 2004, Jasanoff 2004a).
Kortlandt, Frederik H. H.
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Ethnic Russian Minority in Estonia [PDF]
The article examines the position of Russians in Estonia and their relation with ethnic Estonians. The author analyzes models of the society integration introduced by Tallinn after 1991. The results raise questions regarding language education in Estonia,
Włodarska-Frykowska, Agata
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