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Prelude to Baltic Linguistics

Earliest Theories about Baltic Languages (16th century)

Pietro U. Dini

Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / General

This book is a study of the relatively unknown field of Baltic linguistic historiography associated with the 16th century. This has been the saeculum mirabile of Baltic philology, not only on account of the first books having appeared during that period, but also due to the diverse linguistic ideas about the Baltic languages which were circulating during Renaissance Palaeocomparativism: the Slavic and the closely connected Illyrian theory, the Latin theory (with its variants: the semi-Latin, the neo-Latin, and the Wallachian), also the Quadripartite theory. Minor but significant linguistic ideas are also discussed here, for example the emergence of a Hebrew theory and the Greek theory about Old Prussian. The synoptic juxtaposition of the different ideas shows very well the state of knowledge in Europe about the languages which later would be called โ€˜Balticโ€™ and the modernity of those ideas within European Renaissance linguistic debate leading to the rise of comparative linguistic genealogy.
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