Contemporary Approaches to Baltic Linguistics Trends in Linguistics Studies and Monographs

Contemporary Approaches to Baltic Linguistics Trends in Linguistics Studies and Monographs

Peter Arkadiev, Axel Holvoet, Björn Wiemer (Eds.) Contemporary Approaches to Baltic Linguistics Trends in Linguistics Studies and Monographs Editor Volker Gast Editorial Board Walter Bisang Jan Terje Faarlund Hans Henrich Hock Natalia Levshina Heiko Narrog Matthias Schlesewsky Amir Zeldes Niina Ning Zhang Editors responsible for this volume Volker Gast Volume 276 Contemporary Approaches to Baltic Linguistics Edited by Peter Arkadiev Axel Holvoet Björn Wiemer ISBN 978-3-11-034376-2 e-ISBN (PDF) 978-3-11-034395-3 e-ISBN (EPUB) 978-3-11-039498-6 ISSN 1861-4302 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data A CIP catalog record for this book has been applied for at the Library of Congress. Bibliographic information published by the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek The Deutsche Nationalbibliothek lists this publication in the Deutsche Nationalbibliografie; detailed bibliographic data are available on the Internet at http://dnb.dnb.de. © 2015 Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Boston Typesetting: Compuscript Ltd., Shannon, Ireland Printing: CPI books GmbH, Leck ♾ Printed on acid-free paper Printed in Germany www.degruyter.com Contents Contributors vii Peter Arkadiev, Axel Holvoet and Björn Wiemer 1 Introduction: Baltic linguistics – State of the art 1 Hans Henrich Hock 2 Prosody and dialectology of tonal shifts in Lithuanian and their implications 111 Anna Daugavet 3 The lengthening of the first component of Lithuanian diphthongs in an areal perspective 139 Ineta Dabašinskienė and Maria Voeikova 4 Diminutives in spoken Lithuanian and Russian: Pragmatic functions and structural properties 203 Daiki Horiguchi 5 Latvian attenuative pa-verbs in comparison with diminutives 235 Cori Anderson 6 Non-canonical case patterns in Lithuanian 263 Axel Holvoet 7 Non-canonic al subjects in Latvian: An obliqueness-based approach 299 Ilja A. Seržant 8 Dative experiencer constructions as a Circum-Baltic isogloss 325 Nijolė Maskaliūnienė 9 Morphological, syntactic, and semantic types of converse verbs in Lithuanian 349 Eiko Sakurai 10 Past habitual tense in Lithuanian 383 Aurelija Usonienė 11 Non-morphological realizations of evidentiality: The case of parenthetical elements in Lithuanian 437 Kirill Kozhanov 12 Lithuanian indefinite pronouns in contact 465 vi Contents Bernhard Wälchli 13 Ištiktukai “eventives” – The Baltic precursors of ideophones and why they remain unknown in typology 491 Andrii Danylenko 14 The chicken or the egg? Onomatopoeic particles and verbs in Baltic and Slavic 523 Index of languages 543 Index of subjects 546 Contributors Cori Anderson Axel Holvoet Rutgers University University of Warsaw / Vilnius University Dept. of Germanic, Russian, and East Wydział Polonistyki European Languages and Literatures Krakowskie Przedmieście 26/28, 00-927 172 College Avenue, New Brunswick, Warszawa, Poland NJ 08901 [email protected] [email protected] Daiki Horiguchi Peter Arkadiev Iwate University Institute of Slavic Studies of the Russian Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences Academy of Sciences / Russian State 3-18-8, Ueda, Morioka, Iwate, 020-8550, University for the Humanities / Sholokhov Japan Moscow State University for the Humanities [email protected] Leninsky prospekt 32A, Moscow, 119991, Russia Kirill Kozhanov [email protected] Institute of Slavic Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences Ineta Dabašinskienė Leninsky prospekt 32A, Moscow, 119991, Vytautas Magnus University Russia Department of Linguistics [email protected] K. Donelaičio gatvė 58, Kaunas, 44248, Lithuania Nijolė Maskaliūnienė [email protected] Vilnius University Faculty of Philology, Department of Andrii Danylenko Translation Studies Pace University Universiteto gatvė 5, Vilnius, LT-01513, Dyson College of Arts and Sciences, Modern Lithuania Languages and Cultures Department [email protected] 41 Park Row, New York, NY 10038, USA [email protected] Eiko Sakurai Tokyo University of Foreign Studies / Osaka Anna Daugavet University Saint-Petersburg State University World Language and Society Education Center Department of General Linguistics 3-11-1, Asahi-cho, Fuchu-shi, Tokyo 183-8534, Universitetskaya naberezhnaya 11, Japan Saint-Petersburg, 199034, Russia [email protected] [email protected] Ilja A. Seržant Hans Henrich Hock Johannes-Gutenberg-Universität Mainz University of Illinois Institut für Slavistik Department of Linguistics Jakob-Welder-Weg 18, Mainz, 55128, Germany 707 S. Mathews, Urbana IL 61801, USA [email protected] [email protected] viii Contributors Aurelija Usonienė Bernhard Wälchli Vilnius University Stockholm University Faculty of Philology, Department of English Department of Linguistics Philology SE-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden Universiteto gatvė 5, Vilnius, LT-01513, [email protected] Lithuania [email protected] Björn Wiemer Johannes-Gutenberg-Universität Mainz Maria Voeikova Institut für Slavistik Institute for Linguistic Studies of the Russian Jakob-Welder-Weg 18, Mainz, 55128, Germany Academy of Sciences / Saint Petersburg State [email protected] University, Department of Russian Language Tuchkov pereulok 9, Saint-Petersburg, 199053, Russia [email protected] Peter Arkadiev, Axel Holvoet and Björn Wiemer 1 Introduction: Baltic linguistics – State of the art This introductory chapter to the volume is meant to give an overview of the state of research in the description of extant Baltic languages. Of course, we cannot supply a fully comprehensive account of all aspects of these languages. We will mainly focus on synchronic linguistics. We have not let ourselves be guided by functionalists’ or formalists’ prominence, although the survey to some extent reflects those domains and frameworks for which we ourselves felt competent enough. Sometimes we decided to be more explicit on noteworthy research results if these have been published in one of the Baltic languages or another language the knowledge of which cannot be assumed to be very much widespread among Western linguists. In any case, we are eager to account for the study of Baltic lan­ guages in the light of theoretically interesting issues and methods. Before beginning our survey, we will give some basic introduction concern ing the general typological “outfit” of the contemporary Baltic languages and their genealogical affiliation. This includes short explanations about the main differ­ ences between Lithuanian, Latvian, and Latgalian and the internal dialect al fragmentation of East Baltic (Section 1). Sections 2 and 3 contain the main body of our task. Section 2 is subdivided according to rather traditional levels of struc­ tural description (from phonetics to the syntax of complex sentences). Derivation is given an extra subsection (2.4). Section 3 is devoted to semantics and pragma­ tics and also fragmented following generally accepted linguistic disciplines. Subsequently, in Section 4, we will give some cursory information concerning aspects of areal linguistics, including dialect geography. Section 5 overviews typological studies into which Baltic data have been incorporated (Section 5.1) and highlights typologically outstanding features and rarities (Section 5.2). This subsection should show why more linguistic research into Baltic languages need not be judged just as the fancy occupation of a handful of scholars and why the Baltic languages are not to be dismissed as, on the one hand, only another tiny group of European languages (and thus not exotic enough from a global perspec­ tive), and yet, on the other hand, too obscure and hardly accessible in order to be worth labor (and thus too exotic on a European background). In the conclusion, we will sum up some outlines and add comments on paradoxes of the linguistic study of Baltic languages (Section 6) and briefly summarize the contents of the individual chapters of the volume (Section 7). The references list at the end does not pretend to be exhaustive but contains only work that has been mentioned in this introduction. 2 Peter Arkadiev, Axel Holvoet and Björn Wiemer 1 General outfit of Baltic languages This section is meant to supply a rough survey of the internal subdivision of Baltic or, essentially, East Baltic, and some basic diachronic background (Section 1.1) as well as to give an overview of grammars and other general sources on Baltic languages (Section 1.2) and of electronic corpora that are currently accessible (Section 1.3). 1.1 Diachronic background, general genealogical, and dialectological issues Originally, i.e., by more or less the mid­first millennium AD, Baltic dialects were dis­ persed over a large area stretching approximately from the region of today’s Berlin over to eastwards of today’s Moscow (Toporov 1997: 148). “Hard proof” for this extension comes from hydronymy (cf. Toporov & Trubačev 1962, Tret’jakov 1966, Vasmer 1971). The Baltic­speaking territory known from historical documents of the second millennium is usually divided into a western and an eastern branch. Old Prussian, which died out at the beginning of the eighteenth century AD, belonged to the western branch, whereas the only extant Baltic languages (Lithuanian, Latvian, Latgalian) form part of the eastern branch. On the next taxon, Lithuanian is usually divided into Aukštaitian (High Lithuanian) and Žemaitian (Samogitian or Low Lithuanian), with further subdivisions each. Latvian splits into High Latvian and Low Latvian, with the former constituted by Latgalian and Selonian dialects. Low Latvian further divides into Semigalian and Curonian. Tamian and Livonian dialects

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