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Proto-Indo-European long vowels and Balto-Slavic accentuation
The article is a critical review of the evidence regarding the reflexes of Proto-Indo-European long vowels in Baltic and Slavic. It is argued that in Balto-Slavic, inherited long vowels receive circumflex intonation in all positions in the word ...
Tijmen Pronk
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Palatovelars before syllabic resonants: another look
We arrive at the following relative chronology:1. Depalatalization before syllabic *r̥ (Proto-Indo-European),2. Depalatalization before syllabic *l̥ (Balto-Slavic, Albanian, Armenian),3a.
Frederik Kortlandt
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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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Networking Phylogeny for Indo-European and Austronesian Languages [PDF]
Harnessing cognitive abilities of many individuals, a language evolves upon their mutual interactions establishing a persistent social environment to which language is closely attuned. Human history is encoded in the rich sets of linguistic data by means
Dimitri Volchenkov +3 more
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Minimalistic Approach to Coreference Resolution in Lithuanian Medical Records
Coreference resolution is a challenging part of natural language processing (NLP) with applications in machine translation, semantic search and other information retrieval, and decision support systems. Coreference resolution requires linguistic preprocessing and rich language resources for automatically identifying and resolving such expressions. Many
Voldemaras Žitkus +6 more
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