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Contacts between the Baltic and Finnic Languages

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The contacts between the Baltic and Finnic languages have lasted more than two millennia. This book concerns several questions on different contact-induced phenomena in the lexicon, phonology, morphology and syntax of Baltic and Finnic. The contributors are leading researchers in the field.

Author(s): Santeri Junttila (ed.)
Series: Uralica Helsingiensia, 7
Publisher: Finno-Ugrian Society
Year: 2015

Language: English
Pages: 300
City: Helsinki

Santeri Junttila / Introduction 6
Santeri Junttila / Proto-Finnic loanwords in the Baltic languages? An old hypothesis revisited 12
Petri Kallio / The Baltic and Finnic Names of the River Gauja 38
Laimute Balode / Criteria for Identifying Possible Finnicisms in Latvian Toponymy 49
Pauls Balodis / Surnames of Finnic Origin in Latvia 74
Riho Grünthal / Livonian at the crossroads of language contacts 97
Jan Henrik Holst / On the theory of a Uralic substratum in Baltic 151
Marja Leinonen / Lithuanian partitive genitive and Finnish partitive in existential sentences 174
Maija Tervola / Comparing object case alternation in Finnish and Lithuanian 205
Merlijn De Smit / Agented participles in Baltic and Finnic 246
Outi Duvallon & Hélène de Penanros / Schematic Form as a theoretical tool for the analysis of prepositions, verbal prefixes and cases in Finnish and in Lithuanian 272
List of Contributors 300