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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 ‘Baltic’ and the modernity of those ideas within European Renaissance linguistic debate leading to the rise of comparative linguistic genealogy.

Baltic languages --- Baltic languages. --- Balto-Slavic languages --- Indo-European languages --- History.

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Langues slaves --- Slavic languages --- Slavic languages.

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This collection of twenty-nine research papers is dedicated to the eminent Balticist, Slavicist and Indo-Europeanist, William R. Schmalstieg in commemoration of his seventy-fifth birthday. It contains contributions by specialists of mainly Baltic and Indo-European linguistics which are reflective of Schmalstieg's own scholarly interests over the decades of his career, including technical aspects of Baltic and Indo-European phonology, morphology and syntax, etymology, language universals, the history of linguistics and the Baltic text tradition.

Baltic languages --- Indo-European languages --- Schmalstieg, William R. --- Aryan languages --- Baltiques [Langues ] --- Baltische talen --- Balto-Slavic languages --- Balto-Slavische talen --- Balto-slaves [Langues ] --- Indo-Europese talen --- Indo-Germaanse talen --- Indo-Germanic languages --- Indo-europeennes [Langues ] --- Indo-germaniques [Langues ] --- Langues baltiques --- Langues indo-européennes --- Langues indo-germaniques --- Baltic languages. --- Langues baltes --- Langues indo-européennes --- Indo-European languages.