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Atlas of the Baltic languages: from idea to pilot project

Acta Baltico-Slavica, 2015
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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Pseudolingvistika kui folkloorinähtus [PDF]

Mäetagused, 2014
The article discusses pseudo-linguistic theories about the kinship of the Estonian language published since the 1920s. The author describes these theories, pointing to their characteristic features and causes of origin, and then proceeds to give an ...
Maarja Villandi
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Homo polyglottus: Semiosphere as a model of human cognition

Sign Systems Studies, 2016
The semiosphere is arguably the most influential concept developed by Juri Lotman, which has been reinterpreted in a variety of ways. This paper returns to Lotman’s original “anthropocentric” understanding of semiosphere as a collective intellect ...
Aleksei Semenenko
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Baltic Abstracts in *-ī-bā

Acta Baltico-Slavica, 2023
Baltic abstracts in -ība (e.g. Lith. dial. gyvýba ‘life’ / Latv. dzīvība ‘life’) are built on the basis of the old abstract formations in *-ī < IDE *-ih2, acc.sg. *-ijan. From the acc.sg. *-ijan, a new nom.sg.
Norbert Ostrowski
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In Search of Toponymic Borders in Belozerye [PDF]

Вопросы ономастики, 2016
The article presents some results of the expedition aimed at documenting toponymic and lexical substratal data in the Lake Beloye area (Belozerye). The survey was carried out in the summer of 2015 in the south-western part of Belozersky District around ...
Ekaterina V. Zakharova, Anna A. Makarova, Irma I. Mullonen   +2 more
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Kas "balti kirjanik" on olemas? / Does the "Baltic Writer" Exist?

Methis: Studia Humaniora Estonica, 2016
Teesid: Artiklis küsitakse 2009. a ilmunud leksikoni „300 Baltic Writers“ põhjal, kas „Balti kirjanik“ on põhjendatud mõiste. Varem mõisteti Baltikumi all laiemat ala, kuhu kuulusid ka Poola ja Soome.
Cornelius Hasselblatt
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The Priest in the Multilingual Church. Language as an Aspect of the Functioning of the Lower Clergy in Late Medieval Prussia

Acta Historica Universitatis Klaipedensis, 2020
Late Medieval Prussia, an area ruled by the Teutonic Order, was a multilingual entity, with the Baltic and Slavic languages used by the local population alongside the German language.
Marcin Sumowski
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‘Infernal’ subtexts in Brodsky’s poem The fifth anniversary

Sign Systems Studies, 2002
This essay explores the intertextual relationships of Joseph Brodsky’s poem Пятая годовщина an occasional verse dedicated to the fifth anniversary of the poet’s enforced emigration from the Soviet Union.
Maija Könönen
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A Translation Mining Approach to Grammatical Aspect: Insights from Slavic and Baltic Languages

Acta Universitatis Wratislaviensis. Anglica Wratislaviensia
This study investigates grammatical aspect in Baltic and Slavic languages using the Translation Mining methodology. Building on Dickey’s typology, which classifies Slavic languages into Eastern and Western aspectual groups, we employ quantitative corpus ...
Dorota Klimek-Jankowska, Alberto Frasson, Antonina Mocniak, Justyna Gruszecka, Andrzej Żak   +4 more
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Baltic context of some Estonian periphrastic causative constructions

Eesti ja Soome-ugri Keeleteaduse Ajakiri, 2017
I discuss 4 Estonian periphrastic causative constructions based on laskma, andma, panema, and sundima with respect to semantic shift from non-causative to causative use.
Jurgis Pakerys
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