Meaning of Balto-Slavicist | Babel Free

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A linguist who specialises in studying Balto-Slavic languages.

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“I should point⟳ out that I shall use⟳ the character j instead of St. Clair's y to represent⟳ the palatal glide, since j is more familiar to Balto-Slavicists.”

“There are two papers on problems of Indo-European phonology which, although I am too ignorant of the field to be able to comment⟳ upon them fully, both appear⟳ to me to be very useful contributions to the field. The more important of them is probably Werner Winter's 'The distribution of short and long vowels in stems of the type⟳ Lith. ésti: vèsti: mèsti and OCS jasti: vesti: mesti in Baltic and Slavic languages' (431–446). […] This (to an outsider) extremely impressive paper is well-provided with both the evidence for the rule⟳ and the evidence which counts against it. I suspect⟳ that Balto-Slavicists will be using this paper for many years to come⟳.”

“The Balto-Slavicist W. Schmalstieg (779-91), after much discussion of the validity of universal principles in linguistic explanation, concludes that Hittite accusatives in -un and -uš (beside -an and -aš from etymological *-o-stems), like⟳ their counterparts in Baltic, Slavic, and Armenian, derive from *-oN and *-uN in word-final closed syllables”

“An ordinarily well-informed Balto-Slavicist / Indo-Europeanist would immediately think⟳ of two potential ways to explain⟳ the circumflex in dȃ, one phonological, the other morphological.”

“First, there is very little agreement among Balto-Slavicists as to the proper analysis of single accusative-marked arguments of pain-verb constructions […]”

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