26.1485, Books: A Typological Perspective on Latvian Grammar: Kalnača

Wed Mar 18 16:33:01 UTC 2015

LINGUIST List: Vol-26-1485. Wed Mar 18 2015. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 26.1485, Books: A Typological Perspective on Latvian Grammar: Kalnača

Moderators: linguist at linguistlist.org (Damir Cavar, Malgorzata E. Cavar)
Reviews: reviews at linguistlist.org (Anthony Aristar, Helen Aristar-Dry, Sara Couture)
Homepage: http://linguistlist.org

*************    LINGUIST List 2015 Fund Drive    *************
Please support the LL editors and operation with a donation at:

              http://funddrive.linguistlist.org/

Editor for this issue: Sara  Couture <sara at linguistlist.org>
================================================================

Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2015 12:32:50
From: Julia Ivanova [Julia.Ivanova at degruyteropen.com]
Subject: A Typological Perspective on Latvian Grammar: Kalnača

Title: A Typological Perspective on Latvian Grammar 
Publication Year: 2014 
Publisher: De Gruyter Open
	   http://degruyteropen.com/

Book URL: http://www.degruyter.com/view/product/449849 

Author: Andra Kalnača

Electronic: ISBN:  9783110411317 Pages: 198 Price: ----  

Abstract:

The theoretical investigation on Latvian grammar is one of the topical tasks in modern linguistics. Traditionally, the grammar of Lithuanian had been more familiar to diachronic and synchronic linguistics, even though Latvian has various features valuable for historical and even more so for present-day investigations. Since the admission of Latvia to the EU, linguists dealing with Baltic languages have begun to pay more attention to the Latvian data in their research.

“Typological Perspective on Latvian Grammar”, written in English written by Prof. Andra Kalnaca, the leading Latvian glottologist and who specializes in the study of Latvian Grammar (Department of Latvian and General Linguistics, University of Latvia), offers an intrinsic insight into Latvian grammar. From a typological perspective, Latvian grammar represents a classic Indo-European (Baltic) system with well-developed inflection and derivation. But at the same time, it demonstrates some features more similar to those in Finno-Ugric languages due to areal and historical background.

Kalnaca’s book offers access to Latvian grammar, both from a current theoretical perspective and in terms of language samples. The language might be explained and analyzed by a Latvian linguist, but this native language systemic description is enriched with West- oriented theoretical background. The author concentrates on case system and declension, particularly on polyfunctionality of case forms; aspect, mood, modality and evidentiality; she analyzes reflexive verbs and voice. The bulk of research material is taken from the Corpus of Latvian.

The recurring keynote that sets the tone of this book is the reflection that Latvian has much in common with other languages (both genetically related and unrelated), and that it also has a number of peculiarities or distinctive features that make it a special case and an extremely interesting one to study and delve into. 

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics
                     Morphology
                     Syntax
                     Typology

Subject Language(s): Latvian (lav)

Language Family(ies): Indo-European

Written In: English  (eng)

See this book announcement on our website: 
http://linguistlist.org/pubs/books/get-book.cfm?BookID=82853

PUBLISHING PARTNER

    Cambridge University Press
        http://us.cambridge.org

MAJOR SUPPORTING PUBLISHERS

    Akademie Verlag GmbH
        http://www.oldenbourg-verlag.de/akademie-verlag

    Bloomsbury Linguistics (formerly Continuum Linguistics)
        http://www.bloomsbury.com

    Brill
        http://www.brill.nl

    Cambridge Scholars Publishing
        http://www.c-s-p.org

    Cascadilla Press
        http://www.cascadilla.com/

    Classiques Garnier
        http://www.classiques-garnier.com/

    De Gruyter Mouton
        http://www.degruyter.com/

    Edinburgh University Press
        http://www.euppublishing.com

    Elsevier Ltd
        http://www.elsevier.com/

    Equinox Publishing Ltd
        http://www.equinoxpub.com/

    European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
        http://www.elra.info/

    Georgetown University Press
        http://www.press.georgetown.edu/

    John Benjamins
        http://www.benjamins.com/

    Lincom GmbH
        http://www.lincom-shop.eu/

    MIT Press
        http://mitpress.mit.edu/

    Multilingual Matters
        http://www.multilingual-matters.com/

    Narr Francke Attempto Verlag GmbH + Co. KG
        http://www.narr.de/

    Oxford University Press
        oup.com/us

    Palgrave Macmillan
        http://www.palgrave.com/

    Peter Lang AG
        http://www.peterlang.com/

    Rodopi
        http://www.rodopi.nl/

    Routledge (Taylor and Francis)
        http://www.routledge.com/

    Springer
        http://www.springer.com/

    University of Toronto Press
        http://www.utpjournals.com/

    Wiley-Blackwell
        http://www.wiley.com/

OTHER SUPPORTING PUBLISHERS

    Association of Editors of the Journal of Portuguese Linguistics
        http://www.fl.ul.pt/revistas/JPL/JPLweb.htm

    International Pragmatics Assoc.
        http://ipra.ua.ac.be/

    Linguistic Association of Finland
        http://www.ling.helsinki.fi/sky/

    Morgan & Claypool Publishers
        http://www.morganclaypool.com/

    Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics / Landelijke (LOT)
        http://www.lotpublications.nl/

    Seoul National University
        http://j-cs.org/index/index.php

    SIL International Publications
        http://www.sil.org/resources/publications

    Universitat Jaume I
        http://www.uji.es/CA/publ/

    University of Nebraska Press
        http://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/

    Utrecht institute of Linguistics
        http://www-uilots.let.uu.nl/

----------------------------------------------------------
LINGUIST List: Vol-26-1485	
----------------------------------------------------------
Visit LL's Multitree project for over 1000 trees dynamically generated
from scholarly hypotheses about language relationships:
          http://multitree.org/