2. Prosody and dialectology of tonal shifts in Lithuanian and their implications

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1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Contributors vii
4. 1 Introduction: Baltic linguistics – State of the art 1
5. 2. Prosody and dialectology of tonal shifts in Lithuanian and their implications 111
6. 3. The lengthening of the first component of Lithuanian diphthongs in an areal perspective 139
7. 4. Diminutives in spoken Lithuanian and Russian: Pragmatic functions and structural properties 203
8. 5. Latvian attenuative pa-verbs in comparison with diminutives 235
9. 6. Non-canonical case patterns in Lithuanian 263
10. 7. Non-canonical subjects in Latvian: An obliqueness-based approach 299
11. 8. Dative experiencer constructions as a Circum-Baltic isogloss 325
12. 9. Morphological, syntactic, and semantic types of converse verbs in Lithuanian 349
13. 10. Past habitual tense in Lithuanian 383
14. 11. Non-morphological realizations of evidentiality: The case of parenthetical elements in Lithuanian 437
15. 12. Lithuanian indefinite pronouns in contact 465
16. 13. Ištiktukai “eventives” – The Baltic precursors of ideophones and why they remain unknown in typology 491
17. 14. The chicken or the egg? Onomatopoeic particles and verbs in Baltic and Slavic 523
18. Index of languages 543
19. Index of subjects 546