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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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From "word-images' to "chapter-shots": The imaginist montage of Anatolij Mariengof. The article discusses the three dominant imaginist principles of Anatolij Mariengofs (1897-1962) poetic technique, as they are translated into prose in his first ...
Tomi Huttunen
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Lotman in an interdisciplinary context: A symposium held at the University of Michigan
Lotman in an interdisciplinary context: A symposium held at the University of ...
Andreas Schönle
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Verbalizing Ontologies in Controlled Baltic Languages
Controlled natural languages (mostly English-based) recently have emerged as seemingly informal supplementary means for OWL ontology authoring, if compared to the formal notations that are used by professional knowledge engineers. In this paper we present by examples controlled Latvian language that has been designed to be compliant with the state of ...
Normunds Gruzitis +2 more
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Aspectual Restriction on Sorting in Czech and Slovak
This article is about the cross-linguistic universality of the so-called Universal Sorter, where a noun N means ‘kind of N’. We discuss two restrictions in two Slavic languages which are absent from English, pertaining to perfective verbs and numerically
Mojmír Dočekal +2 more
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Computer-mediated explicit Instruction (CMEI) is effective in promoting second language development, particularly in the area of speech acts. However, more information is needed about the role of learners' language proficiency and perceptions in the ...
Lijia Zhong, Yanle Zhang
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The submerged genitive in Old Prussian
This paper is devoted to the Old Prussian phrase ʃwaiāʃmu ʃupʃei buttan ‘to his own house’ (Enchiridion, III 876). Far from being simply the result of a syntactic error, the genitive ʃupʃei ‘of oneself’ can be recognized as the reflex of an archaic ...
Daniel Petit
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The present article gives an overview of the borrowed vocabulary of the Rus- sian dialect of the Kola peninsula, which mostly comes from Finno-Ugric languages.
David Pineda
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Milestones in Baltic Studies in Moscow
The article describes the history of research on Baltic languages in Moscow from the second half of the 19th century, when the Lithuanian language began to be taught at Moscow University.
Maria Zavyalova
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Hipoteza Witolda Mańczaka o ugrofińskim substracie w językach bałtyckich
Witold Mańczak’s Hypothesis about the Finno-Ugric Substrate in the Baltic Languages The paper discusses Witold Mańczak’s hypothesis concerning a Finnic (particularly Balto-Finnic) substrate in the Baltic languages (Mańczak 1990: 29–38; 1993: 151; 2008:
Krzysztof Tomasz Witczak
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