The circum-Baltic languages. Vol. 1

Introduction

the Circum-Baltic languages

introduction to the volume, Osten Dahl and Maria Koptjevskaja-Tamm. Part 1 Survey of selected Circum-Baltic languages and language varieties: the Latvian language and its dialects, Laimute Balode and Axel Holvoet; the Lithuanian language and its dialects, Laimute Balode and Axel Holvoet; Russian varieties in the southeastern Baltic area

urban Russian of the 19th century, Valeriy Cekmonas; Russian varieties in the southeastern Baltic area

rural dialects, Valeriy Cekmonas; Swedish dialects around the Baltic Sea, Anne-Charlotte Rendahl; the Finnic languages, Johanna Laakso. Part 2 Early history of the Circum-Baltic languages: the origin of the Scandinavian languages, Osten Dahl; Baltic influence on Finnic languages, Lars-Gunnar Larsson. Part 3 Contact phenomena in minor Circum-Baltic languages: the role of language contact in the formation of Karelian, past and present; syntactic code-copying in Karaim, Eva Agnes-Csato; Yiddish in the Baltic region, Neil G. Jacobs; the North Russian Romani dialect

interference and code switching, Aleksandr Yu. Rusakov; on some Circum-Baltic features of the Pskov-Novgorod (northwestern central Russian) dialect, Valeriy Cekmonas. Part 4 Selected topics in the grammar of the Circum-Baltic languages: impersonals and passives in Baltic and Finnic, Axel Holvoet; on the development of the nominative object in East Baltic, Vytautas Ambrazas; lexical evidence for the parallel development of the Latvian and Livonian verb particles, Bernhard Walchli; on the development of the Estonian aspect

the verbal particle "ara", Helle Metslang; case systems and syntax in Latvian and Estonian, Baiba Metuzale-Kangere and Kersti Boiko; genitive positions in Baltic and Finnic languages, Simon Christen. Part 5 Typological perspectives: "a piece of cake" and "a cup of tea"

partitive and pseudo-partitive nominal constructions in the Circum-Baltic languages, Maria Koptjevskaja-Tamm; nonv