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Balto-Slavicist

Balto-Slavicist noun: a linguist who specialises in studying Balto-Slavic languages.

Noun

Balto-Slavicist (plural Balto-Slavicists)

  1. A linguist who specialises in studying Balto-Slavic languages.
    • I should point out that I shall use the character j instead of St. Clair's y to represent the palatal glide, since j is more familiar to Balto-Slavicists.1977, Philip J. Regier, “Lithuanian conjugation–a closer examination”, in Linguistics, volume 15, number 190, →ISSN, page 50
    • There are two papers on problems of Indo-European phonology which, although I am too ignorant of the field to be able to comment upon them fully, both appear to me to be very useful contributions to the field. The more important of them is probably Werner Winter's 'The distribution of short and...1981 March, Richard M. Hogg, “[Review of Recent developments in historical phonology]”, in Journal of Linguistics, volume 17, number 1, →ISSN, page 158

Examples of Balto-Slavicist in a sentence

  • I suspect that Balto-Slavicists will be using this paper for many years to come.1981 March, Richard M. Hogg, “[Review of Recent developments in historical phonology]”, in Journal of Linguistics, volume 17, number 1...
  • An ordinarily well-informed Balto-Slavicist / Indo-Europeanist would immediately think of two potential ways to explain the circumflex in dȃ, one phonological, the other morphological.2004, Jay Jasanoff, “Balto-Slavic accentuation”, in Baltistica, volume 39, number 2, →ISSN, page 173:
  • First, there is very little agreement among Balto-Slavicists as to the proper analysis of single accusative-marked arguments of pain-verb constructions […]2018, Eitan Grossman, “For the sake of an argument”, in Baltic Linguistics, volume 9, →ISSN, page 245:

Forms of Balto-Slavicist

pluralBalto-Slavicists

Origin of Balto-Slavicist

From Balto-Slavic + -ist.

Questions about Balto-Slavicist

What does Balto-Slavicist mean?
Balto-Slavicist means a linguist who specialises in studying Balto-Slavic languages.
How do you use Balto-Slavicist in a sentence?
I suspect that Balto-Slavicists will be using this paper for many years to come.
What part of speech is Balto-Slavicist?
Balto-Slavicist is a noun.
What is the plural of Balto-Slavicist?
The plural of Balto-Slavicist is Balto-Slavicists.

Words near Balto-Slavicist in the dictionary

  1. Baltiysk
  2. Balto-
  3. Balto-Finnic
  4. Balto-Slav
  5. Balto-Slavic
  6. Balto-Slavicist
  7. Balto-Slavicists
  8. Balto-Slavs
  9. baltoceratid
  10. baltoceratids
  11. Baltodano

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