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“Stitches to make dresses”, begins Latvian distaff spindle 389. “A stack apart for money”, begins distaff spindle 386. “Speech of heddles, Goddess with us, Goddess with us, Goddess with us, from our knit-mill”, begins the song on... more
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      Latvian LanguageFinnish LanguageMason's marksWeaving
The political shocks of the 2014 Ukrainian crisis have been felt in many former Soviet countries, not least Latvia, where over 35% of the population are native Russian speakers. At a time when analysts and commentators are unsure about... more
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      Discourse AnalysisEuropean StudiesRussian StudiesMedia Studies
This paper is the first empirical study of the construction TAKE (and) V ("he took and left" = 'he left suddenly, unexpectedly') in contemporary Latvian and Lithu-anian, carried out on a large sample of corpus data. The results obtained... more
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      Slavic LanguagesBaltic languagesRussian LanguageLatvian Language
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Par virsrakstā minēto un tiem radniecīgo personvārdu ienākšanu un izplatīšanos Latvijā (14.-18. gs.)
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      OnomasticsLatvian LanguageLatviaAnthroponomastics in Medieval Europe
Rezension des Tagungsbandes
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      Bible TranslationBible Translations17th-Century StudiesLatvian Language
The Dictionary of Indo-European Poetic and Religious Themes (DIEPART) was a desideratum in the field of comparative studies. Initiated by the founding father Adalbert Kuhn, Indo-European phraseology and poetics has been a constant subject... more
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      Indo-european language reconstructionCeltic StudiesAnatolian StudiesBaltic Studies
Master’s thesis presented to prof. Bernfried Schlerath (1996), partially published in Latvian 2008-09 in the form of bi-weekly articles in the magazine Kultūras forums (KF), Riga, Latvia, and extended between 2008 and 2021.
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      Mythology And FolkloreOld Norse LiteratureBaltic StudiesAnatolian Languages
Einleitung Noch F. Heberlein (1998) hat mit Bedauern festgehalten, dass die baltischen Sprachen nach wie vor überwiegend historisch-vergleichend untersucht werden. Im vorliegenden Beitrag möchten wir uns mit der Sprachtypologie des Litaui... more
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      Latvian LanguageLanguage TypologyLithuanian languagePrague School
Book 1 of several books. These documents are developed from the Chicago Oriental Institute Akkadian dictionary which is alphabetized as Akkadian-English. I needed an English-Akkadian document, and – finding nothing readily... more
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      Semitic languagesGreek LanguageHebrew LanguageRomance philology
A number of different languages in the Indo-European family were analyzed based on how difficult it would be for a native English speaker to learn them. They were then rated on a purely impressionistic 1-6 scale of easiest to most... more
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      Teaching English as a Second LanguageSpanishPortugueseGreek Language
Book 1, Part II of the Copeland-Akkadian Dictionary that not only is an English-Akkadian Dictionary but also a Concordance of Akkadian-related languages, including Indo-European, languages. We suspect that those who are of the... more
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      Welsh linguisticsGeorgian LanguagePersian LanguageSanskrit
This document includes the complete Indo-European Table, Parts 1-11 with Alphabetical Index (Issue 8.21.19). This obviates the need to download the indvidual parts to this volume. This table of course includes other languages, comparing... more
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      French LiteratureLanguages and LinguisticsItalian StudiesSlavic Languages
The position of the so-called ‘Baltic’ languages Lithuanian, Latvian and Old Prussian within the Balto-Slavonic branch of Indo-European is still a matter of debate. Within Balto-Slavonic, the Slavonic sub-branch is clearly identifiable... more
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      Diachronic Linguistics (Or Historical Linguistics)Historical LinguisticsAncient Indo-European LanguagesIndo-European Studies
A separate writing tradition in High Latvian, associated mainly with the activities of the Roman Catholic Church, has been in existence since the eighteenth century and has become the basis of what is now often called the Latgalian... more
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      History of LinguisticsDialectologyPragmaticsSemantics
This table shows an unusual spectrum of cognates: Indo-European - Sanskrit, Avestan, Persian, Belarusian, Croatian, Polish, Romanian, Greek, Armenian, Albanian, Latin, Irish, Scots-Gaelic, Welsh, Italian, French, English, Etruscan,... more
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      Irish StudiesIndo-european language reconstructionWelsh linguisticsArmenian Studies
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      EtymologyBaltic languagesLatvian LanguageIndo-European Linguistics
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      KhotaneseAnatolian LanguagesHittiteLycian
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      Indo-European StudiesAvestan (Languages And Linguistics)Ancient Greek ReligionLatvian Language
(from a work published in 1981) This table shows an unusual spectrum of cognates: Indo-European - Sanskrit, Avestan, Persian, Belarusian, Croatian, Polish, Romanian, Greek, Armenian, Albanian, Latin, Irish, Scots-Gaelic, Welsh, Italian,... more
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      Indo-european language reconstructionGreek LanguageGeorgian LanguageAncient Indo-European Languages
A work in progress, covering Etruscan Phrases Indo-European Table 1, Parts 1-6. I suppose it would be obvious that the migration of the Indo-Europeans into Europe from what was believed to be the Russian steppes or northern Anatolia and... more
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      Indo-european language reconstructionWelsh linguisticsItalian StudiesGeorgian Language
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      ReligionSociolinguisticsMigrationGender
Language formed the ideological foundation of many national movements in Central and Eastern Europe during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The decision on whether a people spoke a language or a dialect was not based on arguments... more
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      EthnolinguisticsLatvian LanguageCentral and Eastern EuropeLatvia
(from a work published in 1981)This table shows an unusual spectrum of cognates: Indo-European - Sanskrit, Avestan, Persian, Belarusian, Croatian, Polish, Romanian, Greek, Armenian, Albanian, Latin, Irish, Scots-Gaelic, Welsh, Italian,... more
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      French HistoryLanguages and LinguisticsHistorical LinguisticsCeltic Studies
This paper presents a comprehensive comparative analysis of the functions of the present, past and future perfect forms in standard Latvian and Lithuanian based on two complementary types of data: the typological questionnaire devised for... more
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      SemanticsCorpus LinguisticsBaltic languagesLatvian Language
This article deals with wordplay in word-formation and centers on lexical blending. It claims that, because of their very formation process, lexical blends are instances of wordplay. Drawing on examples from a variety of languages, it... more
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      LexicologySpanishHungarianEnglish language
Rezensionsaufsatz zu: Mažiulis, Vytautas. Prūsų kalbos etimologijos žodynas. Vilnius: Mokslo ir enciklopedijų centras. 2013. Derksen, Rick. Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon. Leiden–Boston: Brill. 2015. Kroonen,... more
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      Diachronic Linguistics (Or Historical Linguistics)EtymologyGermanic linguisticsAncient Indo-European Languages
This is an extract from Eurasian Linguistic Connections, by Mel Copeland
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      Historical LinguisticsPersian LanguageSanskritAkkadian Language
updated to include Akkadian Concordance;  see link for most current update.
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      Roman HistoryIndo-european language reconstructionCeltic StudiesWelsh linguistics
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      Mythology And FolkloreAnatolian StudiesHittiteLatvian Language
thief derivatives of PIE √(s)tah-(Ht. tāyezzi 'steals', Gr. tētáomai 'I rob' and OSl. tajǫ 'I hide'): *(s)tahyú-in Ved. (s)tāyú and Av. tāyu-; *(s)tahtis in OIr. táid and OSl. tatĭ; also Ved. stená-, etc.; *b h ṓr in Gr. phôr and Lt. fūr.... more
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      Mythology And FolkloreIndo-European StudiesAncient ReligionLatin Language and Literature
This is Part 10 of a 11 Part table of Indo-European words, as they relate to the Etruscan/Latin languages as well as each other. We have added non-Indo-European languages to the table because of a continuing pattern of liaisons. These... more
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      Irish StudiesLatin LiteratureLanguages and LinguisticsIndo-european language reconstruction
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      HistoryGerman StudiesDiachronic Linguistics (Or Historical Linguistics)Languages and Linguistics
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      Latin LiteratureOld Norse LiteratureKhotaneseOld Irish Language and Literature
A table in 11 parts that shows interesting relationships between these languages: Sanskrit, Persian, Georgian, Akkadian, Hurrian, Urartian, Belarusian, Croatian, Polish, Latvian, Romanian, Finnish, Greek, Armenian, Albanian, Latin,... more
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      Greek LiteratureIndo-european language reconstructionWelsh linguisticsRomance philology
This article deals with the development of the Electronic Historical Latvian Dictionary (http://tezaurs.lv/lvvv/vardnica/) based on the Corpus of Early Written Latvian Texts (http://www.korpuss.lv/senie/). Some issues concerning the... more
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      LexicographyLatvian Language
This Indo-European Table was updated to include Akkadian, Hurrian, Urartian. This table shows interesting, perhaps extraordinary to some scholars, relationships among Indo-European and other languages listed in the Indo-European Table,... more
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      Irish StudiesIndo-european language reconstructionWelsh linguisticsArmenian Studies
Only Polish words from Marcin Paszkowski’s “Dictionary” have been published up to now while their Turkish equivalents have never been edited although two scholars (Ananiasz Zajączkowski 1938 and Stanisław Stachowski 1989) intended to do... more
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      History of LinguisticsPhilologyLanguagesGeography
(from a work published in 1981) This table has Indo-European, Hurrian, Georgian (Kartlevian), Latvian (Baltic), Finnish (Uralic), Hittite, Akkadian and Altaic selections. We have colored words that may be related among the various... more
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      Indo-european language reconstructionCeltic StudiesFrench StudiesArmenian Studies
This paper investigates the use of future tense in Latvian and Lithuanian in narratives that are located in the past. The data come from corpora of the contemporary languages as well as from folktales documented at the end of the 19th... more
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      Baltic languagesLatvian LanguageNarrativityFuture Tense
published October 2017
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      Indo-European StudiesRoman ReligionAnatolian LanguagesLuwian
TITLE: From skunstes mālderis to gleznotājs: The evolution of fundamental Latvian fine-arts vocabulary in the second half of the 19th century The article relates the evolution of fundamental Latvian fine-arts vocabulary related to... more
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      Baltic StudiesLatvian LanguageLatvian art
Part 11 of an 11 part Table listing Indo-European (Irish, Scots-Gaelic, Welsh, Italian, French, English, Hittite, Greek, Armenian, Albanian, Belarusian, Croatian, Polish, Romanian, Persian, Avestan, Sanskrit), Finnish-Uralic,... more
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      Welsh linguisticsGreek LanguageGeorgian LanguageAncient Indo-European Languages
"“In her paper entitled Reportive evidentiality and reported speech: is there a boundary? Evidence of the Latvian oblique Joanna Chojnicka addresses the problem of the relationship between evidentiality and reported discourse by... more
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      Latvian LanguageEvidentialityReported SpeechLatvian
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      IdeophonesLatvian LanguageVerbal MorphologyDerivational Morphology
This corpus-based study presents a description of the various morphosyntactic procedures found in the translation of evaluative forms from Spanish to Latvian. Said procedures have been identified and characterized in previous research by... more
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      Latvian LanguageDiminutivesEvaluative morphology
Together with their parents, thousands of children emigrate from Latvia every year. Extrapolating from general emigration statistics, half of them are children of Russian-speaking Latvians. This article investigates if and how the ... more
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      Diaspora StudiesTransnational migrationRussian LanguageLatvian Language
The paper discusses the correlation of a class of nominal word forms with a characteristic semantics of Stage-level predicates ( = ‗lexical statives‘, ‗Predicatives‘) and syntactic structures with a dative marking on the semantic subject... more
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      Old Norse LanguageRussian LanguageLatvian LanguageLinguistic Typology
This article explores semantic and grammatical properties of Latvian agent nouns that are derived from verbs by the suffix -ēj-(for primary verbs) or -tāj-(for secondary verbs). These formations show several peculiarities that distinguish... more
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      Latvian LanguageDerivational MorphologyAgent nouns
This study examines the system of terms used to describe temperature in Latvian, with special focus on temperature adjectives as its core. The main aim of the research is to understand how the domain of temperature is conceptualised in... more
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      Lexical SemanticsBaltic languagesLatvian LanguageLexical Typology