Reikšmingas baltistikos veikalas

LITHUANIAN KALBOTYROS QUESTIONS XXXIX (1998) Review. Reviews. Notes. Opinions. Reviews. Observations Überblicke. Reviews. Comments REIKŠMINGAS BALTISTIKOS VEIKALAS Baltistics: tasks and Methods. Published by Alfred Bammesberger, Heidelberg, 1998: University Press of Germany C. Winter, 455 P. The centuries-old tradition of German Baltistics has been enriched by another significant work: the famous Heidelberg Carlo Winteri publishing house has published a book that can be enjoyed by researchers of various fields of Baltic studies. The book is published in 1995 m. November 9-12 d. Proceedings of the International Conference at the Catholic University of Eichstätt. The conference was organized by Prof. Alfredo Rizzi, professor at the University of Eichstätt and editor of this publication. ir Bammesberger's initiative, her plan still 1994 m. discussed su with two other prominent German Baltists Rainer Eckert ir Jochenu D. Range. This carefully published book contains 38 messages written in German, English and Italian. (5 ir (1 They are divided into five groups į according to their subject matter: Baltic languages (Baltsich), old Prussian language, Lithuanian language, Latvian language fifth difficult ir to insert these į specific groups, a group of reports on various literature, folklore, mythology problems —more general questions (Ubergreifende Fragestellungen). The geography of the authors of the papers is also very wide: Berlin, Bochum, Eichstatt, Florence, Greifswald, Halle, Heidelberg, Jena, Krakow, Leiden, Milan, Munich, Münster, Padua, Parma, Pisa, Riga, Salzburg, University Park, Verona, Vilnius. It is understood that only specialists in individual fields can analyze in more detail all the reports published in this publication. The purpose of this annotation is only to enjoy this valuable work of Baltic studies and to reveal its content in general. Albertas Rosinas (Zur Frage der Motivierung des morphologischen Wandels in den baltischen Sprachen, pp. 17-22) reviews the more characteristic changes in the morphology of the Baltic languages, shows the relationship of these changes with corresponding phonological changes, the most important of which are the shortening of long diphthongs, changes in the syllables an, en, in, un in individual Baltic languages, the change of long vowels and diphthongs, the disappearance of the Baltic *u before *6. The article of Saulius Ambraz (Diachronische Stratifizierung der grundlegenden Wortbildungstypen bei Verbalabstrakta im Ostbaltischen, p. 23-32) is devoted to the history of verb abstracts in eastern Baltic languages. 248 He summarizes his findings in the following diagram (the diagram shows the suffixes of derivatives): Prabaltų *-tfu-, *-tiy Early Eastern Baltic:*-tiy Later Eastern Baltic: *-0-, *-4K N Lithuanian: -im ymas / Latvian: - Sana, -um. Tungsten Euler examines the names of white sweat and ir blood (‘SchweiB’ and “Blood” in the Baltic Languages, p. 33-34). Alfred Bammesberger enriched — words with the first element *wais-~weis- (Baltisch *waiš-—weišals First element of Composite, p. 35-38). Overall A. Bammesbergerium ir Simo In the King's Article (Zu Questions about the ethnic Identity of the Aisten, p. 39-51) attempts to look again at the origin į of the controversial name Aestiorum gentes. Based on the names of various peoples, the authors tend to believe that the root ir *Aist-, *aistrthe prefix nė could have been „land, land, field, soil“, o further these words may be tų associated with su the ide. *aidh- ‘burn’. This article is about the locomotive. succinum „amber“ source could be liet. *sakinah "big piece of sacks" (plg. let. Oxen — sensitive "big bull", kid guy, say — — *saccharin). Among the articles devoted to Prussistics, particularly interesting Frederik Kortlandt’s article (The development of the Prussian language in the 16th Century, pp. 55-76), which presents the texts of all three Prussian catechisms, translated from the same German text, side by side, further unifying their spelling, phonemic interpretation. This new text, corrected by the author, testifies that the catechisms show the continuity of their language, and that the language of Enchiridion actually reflects a real linguistic system. Next FE. Courtlandt’s article (Two Old Prussian fragments, pp. 115-120) is devoted to the analysis of the famous Basel epigram (Kayle rekyse...) and the 1583 fragment Deues: does dantes, Deues does geitka. An interesting conclusion is that the words of the Basel epigram could have been written by a German, 0 heard them from his Prussian colleague. In another article (Who is Who in the Old Prussian Epigram? p. 127-128) the Dutch linguist contradicts some of Wolfgang P. Schmid’s statements about the interpretation of the text of the Basel epigram in his 1982 article “Jesus, ich leid”. A. Bammesberger, the editor of the Basel epigram, also joins the ranks of scholars of the Basel epigram with his interesting article (Anmerkungen zum Baseler Epigramm, pp. 121-126). Thus, there is no shortage of readers and interpreters for the Prussian text unexpectedly discovered by the American Stephen C. Mc Cluskey in the University of Basel library in 1974. 249 Oswaldas Panaglis (Wortfeldstudien zum Old Prussian. Am Example of the Elbingers Vocabulary, p. 77-87) analyzes The Elbing Dictionary. In this case, however, I jį am ne interested in special problems o of Baltic studies, jo the theme of the dictionary and the principles of its composition. Wojciechas Smoczynski in a long article (Zum Morphology of Old Prussian Articles, p. 89-114) continues his research on the morphology of the Prussian language, šį once presents the so-called Prussian articles (stas, sta) analysis. It is a great pleasure į that a young Italian linguist joins the ranks of ir active Prussian language researchers Alessandras Relatives. The book contains an jo article on the Prussian abstract forms with suffixes su -sna, -senna, -sennis (Old Prussian Abstract Nouns in -sna, -senna, -sennis, p. 129-142). The main conclusion of the article is that when the abstract forms of secondary verbs with the iš accent in the stem, the suffix is used -sna when forming suffixes of iš primary verbs -Sna ir -Sennis. The Lithuanian part of the work begins Zigmo Zinkevičius' article on manuscript texts until Martyno The Catechism of Mažvydas (Das Problem of the Lithuanian manuscript Texts to Mažvydas, p. 145-150). Here are discussed Onos Matusevičiūtės, Sigito Texts found by Narbuto, activities of Franciscan monks In Lithuania. Jochenas D. Range in your article (Philological and Linguistic Preparation and Edition old lithuanian Text, p. 151—164), After briefly recalling German Baltic studies traditions, current Baltic studies at German universities, the main focus is on the publication of ancient Lithuanian texts. Guido Michelini writes (A scientific Edition der Zemchuga Theologischka aus dem Jahr 1600, pp. 165-169) about his not so long ago carefully prepared and published together with the Latin original important monument of Lithuanian literature —“Simono Vaišnoro 1600 metų Zemczuga Theologischka ir jos šaltiniai” (Vilnius, Paola Cotticelli-Kurras (Morphosyn1997). taktische Untersuchungen zur Bibelūbersetzung von Johannes Bretke: Die Pronominalform des Adjektivs in Bretkes) Evangelien, pp. 171-194) examines the use of nominative adjectives in the text of the Bible translation of John Bretkūnas, Martin Luther's translation of the Vulgate Bible. Another Italian linguist, Loredana Serafini Amato, who once published a book on the use of postpositions in the ancient Lithuanian language (La distribuzione della posposizione nel lituano antico, Napoli, 1976), in her article (Zum "Compendium Grammaticae Lithvanicae" von K. Sapūnas —T. Schultz, pp. 195-205) analyses the so-called Sapūnas-- Schulz grammar of the Lithuanian language of 1673, discusses its spelling separately, and highlights the more characteristic features of numerals, verb systems, syntax, and lexicon. Vincentas Drotvinas in his article (Litauische Lexikographie in Ostpreussen: Handschriften, Publikationen, Untersuchungen, p. 207-212) summarizes his several years of research and publication of the lexicography of Lesser 250 Lithuania, emphasizing that Small Lithuanian dictionane ries are only material for academic “Dictionary of Lithuanian ir Language”, but an important source of Lithuanian cultural history. Balduras Panzer (Language affinity at Philipp Quiet and (1745) his A comparative p. 213-227) linguistics study of languages is a study of the — relationships between languages. Pilypo In Ruigi's shop “Consideration of the Lithuanians Languagin e, ihrem Origins, nature and Properties“ (Konigsberg, 1745). The author of the article indicates the sources on which he jo can rely P. Ruigys discussing these problems. Bernfried Schlerathas in his article (Latin scienc, scientes in den Gospels and in Lithuanian translations, p. 229-240) shows how diverse Bible į translators (from Jono Bretkūnas to Česlovas The Latin forms are scientia, scientia. Elvyros Julijos The article of Bukevičiūtė (Zur Use of the diacritical Signs of in the Prussian — Lithuanian Bible of the 18. Jahrunderts, p. 241—258) dedicated to the so-called Johanno Jacobo Year of 1735 Ouandt (II leid. 1755) For the analysis of the spelling of the Bible, specifically the diacritical marks used here. Gertrude Bense tries to solve (Studies of a zu Prussian-Lithuanian Text of the 18. of the century: the „Kinderlehre“ by 1735, p. 259-267) the very difficult issue of the authorship of the booklet “Milk for Little Waikeles” published in Karaliaučius in 1735. There is a kind of pretext that the booklet’s author is to be found in the so-called Bible Commission of the time. Šiaip ši 36 puslapių knygelė įdomi ne tik lietuvių kalbos tyrinėtojams, bet ir pedagogams, juk taip gražiai čia suformuluojami pagrindiniai mokinio elgesio principai: „Szuileje be esąs ne turri šnekkėti neigi žaisti, neigi miegoti, neigi walgyti, neigi ant Knygū gullėti, neigi "They're breaking books, but they're comfortable sitting, learning from the Heart". Rosemarie Lūhr (Zur Genese von konzessiven Strukturen im Litauischen, p. 269-288) writes about the structure of concessional sentences in ancient Lithuanian writing monuments. Giovannis Gobberis (Entscheidungsfragesatze im Litauischen: Zu ihren Formen und Funktionen, p. 289-296). Alfredas Bammesbergeris (Etymologie und Wortbildung: Litauische Beispiele, pp. 297-304) explains some issues of the origin and formation of Lithuanian words: įstėdė, tėvas, trinka, yra. He also discusses the nature of a new practical Lithuanian-German dictionary (Ein neues Worterbuch Litauisch-Deutsch, pp. 315-318). William R. Schmalstieg’s article (Lithuanian Post-Independence Dictionaries, pp. 305-314) is also dedicated to the new Lithuanian lexicography. He draws attention] to the dictionary’s illustrative changes in mediZzaga after Lithuania regained independence. One is amazed at the ingenuity of our lexicographers when they, in the Soviet years, when they were searching for illustrative material related to religion, attributed the sentence Respect your father and your mother to John Jablonski. 251 Janina Jakelaitytė (Das Lithuanian im diplomatic missions Transport: Problems and Aufgaben, p. 319-329) examines the shortcomings of the current Lithuanian diplomatic language. Franc Heberlein his article (Tasks of a synchronous comparative Baltistik, p. 331-344) devotes to practical problems of Lithuanian language teaching. The Latvian Section begins with a well-known Italian Baltist Marijos Teresos Ademollo Gagliano article (Eredita lessicali indeuropee lettone, which in discusses a dozen p, 347-357), old words of Indo-European origin unique to Latvian (agrs ‘ankstus’, aires 'svidrés', donkeys ‘kraujas’, add ‘Ciulpti’, thrush ‘(upés) ziotys’, grain ‘sunkus’, giovs ‘karve’, jumis ‘kemerys’, shame "shame", wife ‘mona’, sirpis ‘pjautuvas’, smiét ‘laugh’, *suvs, cf. suvēns ‘paras’, sweaty ‘prakaitas’, vepris ‘meitélis’). Péterio Vanga's article (The Old Latvian Texts and some Problems of their Erforschung, p. 359-369) dedicated to the problems of old Latvian texty. By the way, he on this topic recently He defended his habilitation dissertation at Vilnius University. Ojaras Bush (One Disputed question of the Latvian Nomenclature (Place names with Pound-), p. 371-376) claims that Latvian place names su Paugali may be Latvian, but some meadow names and river surnames (plg. lat. The name is probably of Finno-Ugric origin. The abundant verses of Italian authors are supplemented by ir Pietro U. Dini article ( Ein unbeachteter altlettischer Zweizeiler (1607) von Hieronymus Megiser, p. 377-382), which analyses a two-line verse published by the German humanist Hieronymus Megiser in Martin Luther’s multilingual Little Catechism, which has not yet received the attention of scholars. The last part of the book, as mentioned, is devoted to mixed problems of Baltistics. First of all, an article by the German philologist Friedrich Scholz, whose contributions to Baltic studies are very important, is published here (Zum Problem des Zeitpunkts der Entstehung einer eigenstandigen Schonen Literatur in den Landern des Baltikums, pp. 387-400) on the formation of fictional literature in the Baltic countries (Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia). As we know, F. Scholz has published an excellent book on this subject, “Die Literaturen des Baltikums: Ihre Enstehung und Etwicklung” (Opladen, 1990).! Mainly based on examples from Lithuanian literature, Liane Klein (Aspekte der Vermittlung eines baltischen Literaturverstandnisses, pp. 401—408) analyses the development of literature in the Baltic countries in the early 20th century. Nikolajus Mikhailovas, working in Italy and fluent in Lithuanian, has recently become particularly interested in Baltic mythology. In the article published in the book (Baltische Mythologie. The current state of research: Pro-! On 29 September 1998, Prof. Friedrich Scholz was awarded an honorary doctorate by Vilnius University. 252 bleme and Perspektiven, p. 409-416) he reviews the current situation of the study of the Baltic mythology, attempts to form the most important directions of its study. Magdalene Huelmann, who recently published a valuable monograph on Lithuanian-Latvian labour songs ir (The Lithuanian and Latvian Work songs. Ein Vergleich, Miinchen, 1996)? summarizes the results of his research in ir the book we are discussing (Aspekte des litauischen und lettischen Work songs, p. 417—426). The book ends with an article by the famous German Baltist Rainer Eckert (Brauchtum und Folklore im Eastern Baltic States: Zum St. John's Day (lett. Jan: lit. Joninės, and the zu Johannisliedern, p. 427-455), which, after a brief overview of the most important problems of the study of folklore of Baltic peoples, analyzes the reflections of the Ionian festival in Latvian folk songs. Iš in fact, we probably will not nė find so many beautiful poems dedicated to this holiday in the folk creation of another nation. We cannot fail to welcome this valuable publication. It remains to sincerely thank the organizer of the conference, the compiler of the publication, Professor Alfred Bammesberger of the Catholic University of Eichstatt, who, in the preface to the book, recalled certain ir connections of his city in Lithuanian words. be ir su Lithuania: “After the war, a group of Lithuanians settled in our district. Ir now we want to extend the contacts between Eichstatto ir Lithuania, but once šį only absolutely peaceful®.’ As mentioned, the work was published by the famous Carlo Winter's Tale. Deréty recalled that this publishing house began publishing and distributing Lithuanian books in 1879. So in this field has no equals. ji Algirdas Sabaliauskas PIETRO DINI. Looking at Pietro Dini’s bookshelf of Lithuanian and Baltic books, it seems that these books are brought to him by eagles. Greta L'anello baltico (Genoa, 1991), H. J. Lysius, Katekizmas (Vilnius, 1993), L'inno di Sant’Ambrogio di Martynas Mažvydas (Rome, 1994), Repubbliche baltiche (Milan, 1994), greta žeminin2 Plg. Kudirkienė L. Lituanistica, 1997, 3 (31), p. 141-143. In 1945-1949, a Lithuanian high school was opened in Eichstatt. Professor A. Bammesberger, wishing to mark the anniversary of the gymnasium, addressed former students and teachers of this gymnasium in the Lithuanian press in the United States of America and Canada. After this appeal, “very good feedback began to flow: both former teachers and former pupils told their impressions and memories” (Darbininkas, 28 May 1998). It should be mentioned that well-known Lithuanian scholars Stasys Barzdukas, Izabelė Matusevičiūtė, Sergejus Treigys worked at the Eichstatt Lithuanian Gymnasium. Art education was taught by our famous architect Vytautas Žemkalnis (Landsbergis). Among the 55 graduates of the first class on 14 May 1946, the current President of the Republic of Lithuania Valdas Adamkus, cf. Rudys S. Eichstaeto Lithuanian Gymnasium, Lithuanian education in Germany. Red. V. Liulevičius, Chicago, 1969, p. 322-341. 253