The dative and instrumental dual in East Baltic
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Eugen Hill
Universität zu Köln
Published 2022-11-24
https://doi.org/10.15388/Baltistikos_platybese.2022.7
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Keywords

East Baltic
Gaulish
Ancient Greek
inflection
dual number
dative case
instrumental case

How to Cite

Hill, E. (2022) “The dative and instrumental dual in East Baltic”, Vilnius University Open Series, pp. 145–160. doi:10.15388/Baltistikos_platybese.2022.7.

Abstract

The paper deals with two case-forms of East Baltic nominals, the dative and the instrumental dual. It summarises what is already known about these case-forms from Lithuanian and Latvian dialects as well as from Old Lithuanian sources. It is demonstrated that these data imply a particular reconstruction of the dual inflectional endings in these cases for Proto-Baltic. Subsequently, the paper shows that etymological matches of the reconstructed Proto-Baltic endings of the dative and instrumental dual may be attested in two further branches of Indo-European. Such endings are found in Gaulish, which is a member of the Celtic branch, and in Ancient Greek.

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