The area around the Baltic Sea has for millennia been a meeting-place for people of different origins. Among the circum-Baltic languages, we find three major branches of Indo-European —Baltic, Germanic, and Slavic, the Baltic-Finnic languages from the Uralic phylum and several others. The circum-Baltic area is an ideal place to study areal and contact phenomena in languages. The present set of two volumes look at the circum-Baltic languages from a typological, areal and historical perspective, trying to relate the intricate patterns of similarities and dissimilarities to the societal background. In Volume II, selected phenomena in the grammars of the circum-Baltic languages are studied in a cross-linguistic perspective.
Produkteigenschaften
- Artikelnummer: 9789027230591
- Medium: Buch
- ISBN: 978-90-272-3059-1
- Verlag: John Benjamins Publishing Company
- Erscheinungstermin: 31.12.2001
- Sprache(n): Englisch
- Auflage: Erscheinungsjahr 2001
- Serie: Studies in Language Companion Series
- Produktform: Gebunden
- Gewicht: 720 g
- Seiten: 423
- Format (B x H): 154 x 225 mm
- Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt