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Balto-Slavic accentuation revisited [PDF]
There is every reason to welcome the revised edition (2009) of Thomas Olander’s dissertation (2006), which I have criticized elsewhere (2006). The book is very well written and the author has a broad command of the scholarly literature. I have not found any mistakes in Olander’s rendering of other people’s views.
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Lith. lokšniis "tender, etc" is traced back, by way of dissimilation, to *losk-snii-, derived with the adjectival suffix -snii-, productive in Baltic, from the I.-E. stem of Slavic laska, Lat. lasc-tvus, etc.
Hamp Eric P.
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On Derksen’s law and related issues
Dominant suffixes in Baltic and Slavic originated from retractions of the stress or later extensions and some of them arose in the Balto-Slavic period already. The retraction of the stress in Lith. dùkterį may or may not have been a phonetic development.
Frederik Kortlandt
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Connective negation and negative concord in Balto-Slavic
With negative indefinite pronouns the Balto-Slavic languages all exhibit strict negative concord. In this study we investigate how negative concord functions in a context in which a connective negator (‘neither ...
Johan van der Auwera +2 more
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Thematic and athematic present endings in Balto-Slavic and Indo-European
While the original primary thematic endings were preserved quite well in Balto-Slavic, they were often replaced by the corresponding athematic endings following the thematic vowel *‑e/o‑ in the other Indo-European languages, thus bringing them into line ...
Frederik Kortlandt
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Kas yra prokalbė? (baltogermaniškoji problema)
PARENT LANGUAGE - WHAT DOES IT MEAN? Summary Parent language is treated as a real dialectal zone of minimal innovations which migrates in time and space after sequential differentiation of dialects introducing more of innovations.
Letas Palmaitis
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New Look on the Toponyms Valdai and Gora-Valdai
The article criticizes the traditional and widespread view on the etymology of the toponyms Valdai in the Novgorod region and Mount Valdai (Finnish Harjavalta) on the coast of the Gulf of Finland, west of St. Petersburg.
Valery L. Vasilyev
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Деантропонимные топонимы белорусско-польского пограничья
Deantroponymic names in the Belarusian-Polish frontier The article analyzes deantroponymic toponyms of Grodno land, recorded in written materials of 15th – 17th centuries in comparison with current data. The origin, structure and evolution of the areal
Юлия [IUliia] Гурская [Hurskaia]
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Shortening, Lengthening, and Reconstruction: Notes on Historical Slavic Accentology
The paper is a part of an ongoing discussion on various topics of historical Slavic accentology with Frederik Kortlandt. The topics discussed in the paper are: the reflex of the Proto-Slavic short neo-acute in Kajkavian; the reflex of pretonic and ...
Mate Kapović
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The western Indo-European vocabulary in Baltic and Slavic is the result of an Indo-European substratum which contained an older non-Indo-European layer and was part of the Corded Ware horizon.
Frederik Kortlandt
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