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Subject: A short grammar of Latgalian: Nau

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Title: A short grammar of Latgalian 
Series Title: Languages of the World/Materials 482  

Publication Year: 2011 
Publisher: Lincom GmbH
	   http://www.lincom.eu

Book URL: http://lincom-shop.eu 

Author: Nicole Nau

Paperback: ISBN:  9783862880553 Pages: 120 Price: Europe EURO 46.80

Abstract:

A short grammar of Latgalian

Nicole Nau 
Adam Mickiewicz University 

Latgalian is a regional language of Latvia in Central Europe, regularly used by 
an estimated number of 150,000 speakers. Genetically it belongs to the 
Eastern Baltic branch of Indo-European. While its close relationship to 
Latvian is apparent in basic vocabulary and inflectional morphemes, there are 
also significant differences in the phonology, morphology and syntax of the 
two languages, due to divergent development during the 17th - 19th c., when 
Latgalia was politically and culturally separated from other Latvian territories. 
Furthermore, contact with Slavic languages (Polish, Belarusian, Russian) has 
played an important role in the history of Latgalian. 

Typologically salient features of Latgalian include morphophonological 
harmony with an opposition of back vs. front vowels and soft (palatalized or 
alveolar) vs. hard consonants, a large inventory of non-finite verb forms, 
genitive vs. accusative marking of direct objects, dative marking of primary 
core arguments in a variety of constructions, the use of non-finite predicates 
in represented speech, and the existence of a distinct logophoric pronoun 
referring to the speaker of a reported discourse. 

Nicole Nau is professor of Baltic languages and linguistics at Adam 
Mickiewicz University in Pozna?, Poland. She is also the author of LWM 217: 
Latvian. 

Linguistic Field(s): Language Documentation
                     Typology
                     Baltic
                     Historical Linguistics

Subject Language(s): Latvian (lav)

Written In: English  (eng)

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