New Book: Dahl/Koptjeska Tamm

[Paul Peranteau]

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John Benjamins Publishing announces a new work of interest to historical 
linguists:

Circum-Baltic Languages. A two volume set
Östen DAHL and Maria KOPTJEVSKAJA TAMM  (Stockholm University) (eds.)

The area around the Baltic Sea has for millennia been a meeting-place for 
people of different origin. Among the circum-Baltic languages, we find 
three major branches of Indo-European -- Baltic, Germanic, and Slavic, the 
Baltic-Finnic languages from the Uralic phylum and several others. The 
circum-Baltic area is an ideal place to study areal and contact phenomena 
in languages.

The present set of two volumes look at the circum-Baltic languages from a 
typological, areal and historical perspective, trying to relate the 
intricate patterns of similarities and dissimilarities to the societal 
background.

Volume 1: Past and Present.
Studies in Language Companion Series 54
2001. xx, 382 pp.  Hardcover
US & Canada: 1 58811 020 6 / USD 118.00
Rest of world: 90 272 3057 9 / EUR 130.00

  In volume I, surveys of dialect areas and language groups bear witness to 
the immense linguistic diversity in the area with special attention to less 
well-known languages and language varieties and their contacts.

Contributions by: L. Balode; V. Cekmonas; E.A. Csató; Ö. Dahl; A. Holvoet; 
N.G. Jacobs; M. Koptjevskaja-Tamm; J. Laakso; L.-G. Larsson; A.-C. Rendahl; 
A.Y. Rusakov.


Volume 2: Grammar and Typology

Studies in Language Companion Series 55
2001. xx, 423 pp.  Hardcover
US & Canada: 1 58811 042 7 / USD 127.00
Rest of world: 90 272 3059 5 / EUR 140.00

In volume II, selected phenomena in the grammars of the circum-Baltic 
languages are studied in a cross-linguistic perspective.

Contributions by: V. Ambrazas; K. Boiko; S. Christen; A. Holvoet; M. 
Koptjevskaja-Tamm; H. Metslang; B. Metuzale-Kangere; L. Stassen; T. Stolz; 
B. Wälchli.