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Language Politics and Practices in the Baltic States

Current Issues in Language Planning, 2008
This monograph provides an overview of the language situation in the three Baltic countries: Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. It examines the recent change in language regimes that the Baltic States have deliberately brought about since the restitution of their independence, the nature of these changes, the opposition they have engendered and the ...
Hogan-Brun, Gabrielle, Ozolins, Uldis, Ramonienė, Meilutė, Rannut, Mart   +3 more
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Nominal Compounds In The Baltic Languages

Transactions of the Philological Society, 2002
In this article the Baltic system of compounding will be presented and its relation to the well attested Proto–Indo–European system of nominal compounding will be sought. The different types have enjoyed different degrees of productivity and the system will be traced back, via East and West Baltic, to Proto–Baltic.
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Nonverbal predication in the Circum-Baltic languages

2001
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Upwardly mobile languages: The politics of language in the Baltic States

Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1994
Since regaining their independence from the Soviet Union, the Baltic states have adopted far‐reaching language policies as a crucial element in national reconstruction and transition from a Soviet system. Such policies now raise profound issues in the extremely complicated and politically sensitive social and linguistic situation of the Baltic states ...
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Predicative possession in the languages of the Circum-Baltic area

Folia Linguistica, 2017
AbstractThis paper deals with the linguistic means used to express predicative possession in the languages of the Circum-Baltic area. The domain of possession is considered here as a prototypically organized domain, where the prototype is the notion of ownership.
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Language contact and prosodic change in Slavic and Baltic

Diachronica, 2018
AbstractThis paper discusses several Slavic and Baltic dialects which have undergone stress shifts as a result of language contact. Two types of change are discussed: (1) stress retractions from the final syllable onto the initial syllable of a prosodic word, and (2) the rise of fixed stress replacing earlier free stress. It is argued that in all cases
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Foreign-Language Teaching in the Baltic Republics in the Past and Present [PDF]

European Education, 1994
The role of foreign-language teaching in the Baltic Republics of Estonia, Lithuania, and Latvia, which regained their independence as states in 1991, cannot be understood without a look into the shifting fortunes of the Baltic region over history. Language policy was to a high degree a policy of domination. The relation between the native language, the
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Languages of Baltic Countries in Digital Age

2018
Today, when we are surrounded by intelligent digital devices – computers, tablets and mobile phones, we expect communication with these devices in a natural language. Moreover, such communication needs to be in our native language. We also expect that language technologies will not only assist us in everyday tasks, but also will help to overcome ...
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Introducing early foreign language education in the Baltic context

Comparative Education, 2010
This paper explores changing language education policies and implementation processes in Central/Eastern Europe. There are conflicting language policy orientations that govern the scene, resulting from post‐independence attempts on the one hand to strengthen the position of the national (state) language, and on the other to function as EU member states
Hogan-Brun, GS, Bulajeva, T
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Language in society across the Baltic Republics: A comparative overview

Journal of Baltic Studies, 2005
Abstract There is to date no systematic comparative analysis of work on the significance of language at the levels of the individual and the state across the Baltic. This introductory article reviews recent publications and proposes further aspects of research to be conducted on the language situation in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
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