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 group 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.

List of Publications

To appear

• Hill, Eugen. To appear. Reconstructing morphology in historical-comparative linguistics. In Peter Arkadiev & Franz Rainer (eds.), Oxford Handbook of Historical Morphology. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

2023

• Fries, Simon, Jakob Halfmann, Eugen Hill & Denise Hübner. 2023. From agent noun to future tense. The functional diachrony of the l-future in the Nuristani languages and its typological background. STUF - Language Typology and Universals 76(1). 53–85.
• Fries, Simon & Eugen Hill. 2023. Establishing the age of the Latvian debitive mood: the evidence of Latgalian. Baltu filoloģija 32(1). 25–54.

2022

• 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.