Convergence and Divergence in the Eastern Circum-Baltic Area

Volume 1: The Northern Part - A Synthetic View, especially on Finnic, and Case Studies
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-3-11-116516-5
Verlag: De Gruyter

Buch, Englisch, 586 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 230 mm

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The volume summarizes research on the structural convergence and divergence of languages in the eastern part of the Circum-Baltic Area by providing its profile against a genealogical and typological background. Methodological issues needed to assess factors that condition convergence in contact superposition zones, or that otherwise lead to differentiation among related varieties, are discussed. Against this backdrop synthetic surveys of major and minor Finnic languages are provided, followed by corpus-based case studies on morphosyntactic phenomena. The volume thus presents both a synthetic compendium and a series of specific up-to-date studies, with special attention to micro-variation.

Zielgruppe

Researchers and (graduate, doctoral) Students in Linguistics: Typ

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wiemer, Björn

Arkadiev, Peter

Kehayov, Petar

Blokland, Rogier

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Grammatik, Syntax, Morphologie

Über Autor(innen)

Björn Wiemer, Universität Mainz; Peter Arkadiev, Universität Zürich, Schweiz; Kirill Kozhanov, Universität Potsdam.

Björn Wiemer, Mainz, Germany; Peter Arkadiev, Zurich, Switzerland; Kirill Kozhanov, Potsdam, Germany.