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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