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Old Lithuanian

is attested from the 16th century onwards. It is similar to the modern language, and many of its peculiarities can still be found today in modern dialects (see introduction). The language has a complex accent system (see sounds) which is actually transmitted in early writings. It has a dual, so-called postpositive local cases and, most remarkably, many athematic verbs (see words). The syntax of Old and Modern Lithuanian is remarkable for absolute constructions and the modus relativus, a verbal mood for expressing indirect speech and propositional attitudes formed with participles (see structures).

Lecturers

Jolanta Gelumbeckaitė

University of Frankfurt

Jurgis Pakerys

Vilnius University

introduction

Old Lithuanian, intro, unit 1

OLT-INT-001

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5446/49475

language and speakers: historical information, genetic affiliation, varieties, language map

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Old Lithuanian, intro, unit 2

OLT-INT-002

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5446/49474

writing system: writing system(s), letters and diacritics, sample of a written text (manuscript, print)

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Old Lithuanian, intro, unit 3

OLT-INT-003

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5446/49473

sources: available sources, electronic corpora, milestones in the study of Old Lithuanian

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sounds

Old Lithuanian, sounds, unit 1

OLT-PHO-001

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5446/49472

segmental phonology: consonants, vowels, diphthongs

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Old Lithuanian, sounds, unit 2

OLT-PHO-002

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5446/49471

suprasegmentals, prosodic words: accents, clitics

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words

Old Lithuanian, words, unit 1

OLT-MOR-001

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5446/49470

overview, stem formation: morphological system, major devices, derivation, compounding

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Old Lithuanian, words, unit 2

OLT-MOR-002

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5446/49469

inflection: declension (nouns, adjecives), conjugation, illustrative paradigms, participles

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structures

Old Lithuanian, structures, unit 1

OLT-STR-001

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5446/49468

noun phrase, adpositions: structural properties and grammatical features of noun phrases, adpositions

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Old Lithuanian, structures, unit 2

OLT-STR-002

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5446/49467

argument coding, non-verbal predication: alignment and argument realization, non-verbal predication

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Old Lithuanian, structures, unit 3

OLT-STR-003

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5446/49466

voice and valency change: paradigmatic oppositions, causative, middle (and its functions), passive

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Old Lithuanian, structures, unit 4

OLT-STR-004

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5446/49465

tense and aspect, mood (irrealis, imperatives, interrogative particles), evidentiality

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Old Lithuanian, structures, unit 5

OLT-STR-005

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5446/49464

clause: word order, clause combining, coordination, finite/non-finite subordination

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texts

Old Lithuanian, texts, unit 1

OLT-TXT-001

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5446/49463

Mikalojus Daukša, Postilla (1599)

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references

Lecturers' references

selection out of the lecturers’ references, enriched by Paulien Veenstra and project members:


general

general introductions, encyclopedias, literature, writing, history, miscellaneous


LITUANUS: Lithuanian Quarterly Journal of Arts and Sciences. LITUANUS. (Accessed 2021-06-29.)
Schmalstieg, William R. 1982. The Origin of Lithuanian Language. In Klimas, Antanas (ed.), LITUANUS: Lithuanian Quarterly Journal of Arts and Sciences 28(1). (Accessed 2021-06-29.)
Senn, Alfred. 1943. The Historical Development of the Lithuanian Vocabulary. Bulletin of the Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences in America 1(4). 946-969.
Zinkevičius, Zigmas. 1996. The History of the Lithuanian Language. Vilnius: Mokslo ir enciklopedijų leidykla.


grammar

grammars, treatments of major grammatical domains


Ambrazas, Vytautas. 2006. Lietuvių kalbos istorinė sintaksė [Historical syntax of Lithuanian]. Vilnius: Lietuvių kalbos institutas.
Mathiassen, Terje. 1996. A short grammar of Lithuanian. Columbus: Slavica Publishers.
The Historical Grammar of Lithuanian language. (Accessed 2021-06-29.)
Zinkevičius, Zigmas. 1980-1981. Lietuvių kalbos istorinė gramatika 1-2 [Historical grammar of Lithuanian 1-2]. Vilnius: Mokslas.


lexicon

dictionaries, headword search tools, further sources of information about the lexicon


Bender, Harold H. 1921. A Lithuanian Etymological Index. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Hock, Wolfgang & Fecht, Rainer & Feulner, Anna Helene & Hill, Eugen & Wodtko, Dagmar S. 2015. Altlitauisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (ALEW). 3 Vols. Hamburg: baar.
Suziedelis, Saulius A. 2011. Historical Dictionary of Lithuania. 2nd edn. USA: Scarecrow Press.


text

text collections, corpora, treebanks


Gippert, Jost & Martinez, Javier & Korn, Agnes. TITUS TEXTUS (Text Database). TITUS: Thesaurus Indogermanischer Text- und Sprachmaterialien. (Accessed 2021-06-29.)
Institute for Empirical Linguistics (University of Frankfurt). 2018. SLIEKKAS (Texts). SLIEKKAS. (Accessed 2021-06-29.)


teaching material

coursebooks, exercises, materials or introductions supporting teaching


Vasiliauskiene, Virginija & Zalkalns, Lilita & Slocum, Jonathan. 2003. Early Indo-European Online: Baltic Online. University of Texas: Linguistics Research Centre. (Accessed 2021-06-29.)