This book is a collection of articles dealing with various aspects of the Baltic languages
(Lithuanian Latvian and Latgalian) which have only marginally featured in the discourse of
theoretical linguistics and linguistic typology. The aim of the book is to bridge the gap
between the study of the Baltic languages on the one hand and the current agenda of the
theoretical and typological approaches to language on the other. The book comprises 13
articles dealing with various aspects of phonology morphology syntax semantics lexicon and
their interactions plus a lengthy introduction whose aim is to outline the state of the art
in the research on the Baltic languages. The contributions are data-driven being based on
field-work corpus research and data published in the sources not accessible to the general
linguistic audience. On the other hand all contributions are informed in the relevant
contemporary linguistic theories and in the advances of linguistic typology. Some of the
contributions aim at a more detailed accurate and theoretically informed description of the
data others look at the Baltic material from a more theoretical point of view still others
assume an areal-typological or contact perspective.
