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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Baltic context of some Estonian periphrastic causative constructions
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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‘Infernal’ subtexts in Brodsky’s poem The fifth anniversary
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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Christian Felix Weiße’s Poetry in Latvian and Estonian Literature
The article analyzes the translations of Christian Felix Weiße’s poems in Latvian and Estonian within the context of cultural transfer during the age of Enlightenment.
Ave Mattheus, Pauls Daija
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Vowels of the end of Finno-Ugric word basis in the Mordovian languages
The article describes the characteristics of the system of vowels of the end of the Finno-Ugric word base in the Mordovian languages. Considering generally accepted opinions in Finno-Ugric linguistics that the Baltic-Finnish (especially Finnish) and Sami
Mihail V. Mosin, Natalya M. Mosina
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Reception of Sophocles’ Antigone in the Baltic States
This paper analyzes the translations of Antigone by Sophocles and later authors and the performances based on them in the theaters of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
Maria-Kristiina Lotman +2 more
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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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Scanning Parametric Sediment Echosounder as Tool for Underwater Archaeological Prospection
ABSTRACT Underwater cultural heritage 3D prospection techniques, especially for remains that are partly buried in the ground, are only very rarely available and often can only be applied with considerable technical effort. To overcome this limitation, we evaluate a methodological adaption of widely used and available single channel parametric sediment ...
Dennis Wilken +5 more
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Lembit Vaba, Über eine mögliche baltische Herkunft von frühosfi. *lēćća *’Blasebalg’ [On the Possible Baltic Origin of the Early Proto-Finnic *lēćća *’bellows’]; pp. 161-167 [PDF]
There is still no consensus about the origin of the Finnic word family represented by, e.g. Fin lietsa, Est lõõts etc. The alleged Germanic etymology ~ ÂProto-Germ *blÄstra-z (cf. Old Norse blástr m âBlasen, Schwellungâ etc).
Lembit Vaba
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Deciphering Nazi Racial Sorting: The Challenges of Attempting a Big Data Approach
In 2019 I started analyzing a large set of “race cards” preserved in the German Federal Archives (Bundesarchiv). These cards document anthropometric measurements performed by SS experts during WWII in the territories occupied by the Nazi regime. Applying a big data approach, my goal was to use those cards to study the inner dynamics of the racial ...
Amir Teicher
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