B08 in DFG-funded SFB/CRC 1252 Prominence in Language

01.01.2021 - 31.12.2024

The project deals with the development and subsequent evolution of recent alignment and agreement patterns in two closely related languages, Lithuanian and Latvian, which constitute the East Baltic subbranch of Balto-Slavic. The project investigates patterns of alignment and agreement in those clauses whose predicates historically developed out of more ancient infinitive formations. Such clauses are to be found in the debitive mood of Latvian, and in the conditional mood of both Latvian and Lithuanian.

Publications

• Fries, Simon. 2022. Über die Variation bū́tų ~ bū́t und mū́sų, jū́sų ~ mū́s, jū́s bei Christian Donelaitis. Archivum Lithuanicum 24. 27–56.
• Fries, Simon. 2022. Über die Variation bū́tų ~ bū́t und mū́sų, jū́sų ~ mū́s, jū́s im Litauischen und ihren Hintergrund in den prosodischen Verhältnissen des Urostbaltischen. Baltu Filoloģija 31(2). 4–47.
• Fries, Simon & Eugen Hill. 2022. Insights into the diachrony of the East Baltic subjunctive mood. Baltistica 57(1). 5–44.