Miguel Villanueva Svensson

Biographic Data

ID8529584
NAMEMiguel Villanueva Svensson
GIVEN NAMESMiguel Villanueva
FAMILY NAMESvensson
SIGNATURESVENSSON M V
AFFILIATIONSVilnius University
ORCID0000-0003-0191-3429
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS35
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR35
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2004
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
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  • The Origin of the Adverb Suffix Lith. -čia , Latv. -šu(s)

    Open AccessMiguel Villanueva SvenssonARTICLEBaltu filoloģija2025

    Lithuanian adverbs in -čia and Latvian adverbs in -šus appear to go back to a Proto(-East) Baltic class of deverbal adverbs of manner in *ti̯ān. It is obvious that *ti̯ān contains the ā-stem instrumental singular *ān, although the most likely derivational base are action nouns in *-ti-. This, however, is typologically rare. As a way out, I propose that instr. sg. *ti̯ān was grammaticalized as a converb of manner, and only much later demoted to a …

  • PIE nu-factitives in Balto-Slavic

    Miguel Villanueva SvenssonARTICLEIndogermanische Forschungen2025

    Slavic nǫ-perfectives, one of the two main sources of Leskien’s Class II, continue a Balto-Slavic class of derived verbs characterized by present stem *‐ne/a‐ (

  • The Rise of Acuteness in Balto-Slavic

    Miguel Villanueva SvenssonBOOKThe Rise of Acuteness in…2024

    The development of the prosodic system from Indo-European to Balto-Slavic is dominated by two major innovations: the rise of mobility and the rise of acuteness. This book provides a new account of the latter. It stands out from previous works for being informed by recent advances in phonological typology and tonogenesis and, especially, for its comprehensiveness. All matters related to the rise of acuteness are treated in detail. As a result, the…

  • The origin of the Greek factitive suffixes -ῡ́νω and -αίνω

    Miguel Villanueva SvenssonARTICLEDie Sprache2024

  • The origin of the Lithuanian denominative suffix -yti , ‐ija

    Open AccessMiguel Villanueva SvenssonARTICLEBaltistica2023

    The Baltic denominative suffix Lith. dal-ýti, -ìja, Latv. sàl-ît, -ĩju does not go back to denominatives from i-stems, as generally assumed. It was an offshoot of the Balto-Slavic ī-verbs consisting of the present stem vowel *-i (PIE 3 sg. *prok̑éi̯eti > Bl.-Sl. *praśīti > *praśīt > Bl. *praśī > 3rd person *praśi) + *-i̯a (the universal present stem suffix for denominatives in Baltic). This is in accordance with the development of Balto-Slavic ī-…

  • The accentuation of the Baltic preterit (and of the Balto-Slavic ā -aorist)

    Open AccessMiguel Villanueva SvenssonARTICLEBaltistica2023

    The Proto-Baltic ē-preterit to ia-presents was normally accented on the root, as expected from a Balto-Slavic perspective and as borne out by close consideration of Baltic circumflex metatony and related issues. Mobile ē-preterits were stressed on the suffix in mobile paradigms: Bl. *arē̍ ‘ploughed’ (Lith. ãrė). In its turn Bl. *arē̍ goes back to early Bl. *arii̯ā̍, which implies that Balto-Slavic mobile ā-aorists were accented on the aorist mark…

  • Nieminen's law revisited

    Open AccessMiguel Villanueva SvenssonARTICLEBaltistica2021

    Nieminen’s law was a matter of vowel reduction: in Proto-Baltic word-final *-as was reduced to *-əs and lost its capacity to carry the stress. This accounts for the following facts: 1) accent position in the nominative singular of mobile o-stems (Lith. lángas, OPr. Deywis/Deiws); 2) the io-stem nominative singular *-īs

  • The Balto‐Slavic ā ‐aorist

    Open AccessMiguel Villanueva SvenssonARTICLETransactions of the Philological…2020

    The paper presents a new theory of the origin of the Balto‐Slavic ā ‐aorist. It is argued that the conjunct evidence of Baltic and Slavic allows us to reconstruct a clear picture of the position of the ā ‐aorist in the Balto‐Slavic verb system: the Balto‐Slavic aorist suffix *‐ ā ‐ was non‐acute (thus pointing to an original form *‐ ah 2 ‐e/o ‐ > Bl.‐Sl. *‐ ā ‐), triggered zero grade of the root, and was exclusively found beside primary thematic …

  • Balto-Slavic accentology, Auslautgesetze , and the Baltic secondary local cases

    Open AccessMiguel Villanueva SvenssonARTICLEBaltistica2020

    The article discusses the history of the Baltic secondary local cases within the framework of modern Balto-Slavic accentology and recent advances in our knowledge of the Baltic Auslautgesetze. The main factor determining the accent of the local cases was the development of Balto-Slavic enclinomena in Baltic. When the local cases were created enclinomena were still preserved, leading to word forms with stress on the original adposition (e.g. o-ste…

  • Lith. namõ, OCS doma and the PIE directive

    Miguel Villanueva SvenssonARTICLEHistorical Linguistics2017

    The termination of the isolated adverbs Lith. namõ “homewards” and Sl. *dȍma “at home” is traced back to a common Balto-Slavic prototype *-ā, which in turn is argued to go back to a post-Anatolian variant *-oh2a of the PIE directive. The ending *-oh2a was formed through recharacterization of the inherited thematic directive *-oh2 (apocopated from pre-PIE *-o-h2e) with the athematic ending *-h2a. It yielded *-ā in Balto-Slavic, but, probably, *-ō …

  • Lith. rìsti , rìta “roll”, OCS ‐rěsti , ‐ręštǫ “find” and the PIE root * ret- in Balto-Slavic

    Open AccessMiguel Villanueva SvenssonARTICLEBaltistica2017

    Lie. rìsti, rìta (la. rist, ritu), riẽsti, riẽčia (la. rìest, rìešu) ir sl. *‐rě̋sti, *‐rę̋t(j)ǫ, *‐rě̋tъ „rasti“ kildinami iš ide. šaknies *ret- „risti“ (plg. s. air. rethid „bėga“; lie. rãtas, s. v. a. rad, lo. rota ir kt. „ratas“). Ide. prokalbei galima rekonstruoti Narteno prezensą *rḗts‐ti/*rét‐ti, kuris baltų-slavų prokalbėje buvo tematizuotas į *rēt‐e/o‐ ir įgijo nulinio laipsnio aoristo-bendraties kamieną *t‐ > *irt‐ → *rit‐ (su metatez…

  • Zero-grade denominative nasal and sta -presents in Baltic

    Open AccessMiguel Villanueva SvenssonARTICLEBaltistica2016

    The article deals with relics of zero-grade fientive denominative nasal and sta-presents in Baltic even when derived from full-grade nominals, a derivational pattern going back to "Northern Indo-European"

  • Workshops “Historical and typological approaches to Baltic morphosyntax” (Vilnius, April 2016) and “Language contact and language change in the Baltic States and Switzerland” (Zürich, September 2016)

    Open AccessMiguel Villanueva SvenssonARTICLEBaltistica2016

  • Rick Derksen, Etymological dictionary of the Baltic inherited lexicon

    Open AccessMiguel Villanueva SvenssonARTICLEBaltistica2015

  • The distribution of the 3 rd sg. endings of the Indo-European middle present

    Miguel Villanueva SvenssonARTICLEHistorical Linguistics2014

  • The origins of the denominative type Lith. ‐áuti , ‐áuja , OCS ‐ovati , ‐ujǫ

    Open AccessMiguel Villanueva SvenssonARTICLEBaltistica2014

    The article deals with the origin of the denominative suffix Lith. ‐áuti, ‐áuja, OCS ‐ovati, ‐ujǫ and offers a completely new theory

  • Two Baltic irregular preterites

    Open AccessMiguel Villanueva SvenssonARTICLEBaltistica2013

    Straipsnyje aiškinami du netaisyklingi baltų kalbų ē‐preteritai (lie. dãvė, mė) *‐ijā > *‐ē teorijos kontekste

  • A note on the Baltic future participle

    Open AccessMiguel Villanueva SvenssonARTICLEBaltistica2012

    The lack of fit between the finite forms (Lith. 3 duõs, 1 pl. dúosime, etc.) and the participle (Lith. dúosiant-, cf. Sl. byšǫšt-) of the Baltic future (going back to two PIE desiderative types: athematic and *‐se/o‐) can be explained as follows: since the future participle is a form of very modest occurrence, it could be generalized from some verbs with an inherited se/o‐desiderative („to be“, „to come“, „to die“, etc.) whose participle was of…

  • Anticausative-inchoative verbs in the northern Indo-European languages

    Miguel Villanueva SvenssonARTICLEHistorical Linguistics2011

  • The origin of the type Lith. bliáuti , bliáuja , Latv. bļaût , bļaûju in a Balto-Slavic perspective

    Open AccessMiguel Villanueva SvenssonARTICLEBaltistica2011

    LIE. bliáuti, bliáuja, LA. bļaût, bļaûju VEIKSMAŽODŽIŲ TIPO KILMĖ IŠ BALTŲ-SLAVŲ PROKALBĖS PERSPEKTYVOS Ankstesniame straipsnyje autorius yra kėlęs darbinę hipotezę, kad ide. (tranzityviniai-)aktyviniai prezensai ir aoristai vystėsi baltų-slavų prokalbėje tokiu būdu: i) ide. prezensai iš „prezenso šaknų“ įgijo naują nulinio laipsnio bendraties ir aoristo (ko gero, ā-aoristas) kamieną, ii) ide. šakniniai aoristai iš „aoristo šaknų“ buvo tęsiami ka…

  • The accentuation of the infinitive type Latv. kal̃t, Sl. *kőlti and the development of Indo-European molō-presents in Balto-Slavic

    Open AccessMiguel Villanueva SvenssonARTICLEBaltistica2011

    LA. kal̃t , SL. * kőlti BENDRATIES TIPO KIRČIAVIMAS IR molō -PREZENSŲ RAIDA BALTŲ-SLAVŲ KALBOSE Santrauka Baltų-slavų prokalbėje bendratis buvo pastoviai kirčiuojama galūnėje, kaip rodo latvių ir, iš dalies, slavų faktai. Šaknies ar priesagos kirčiavimas atsirado veikiant Hirto dėsniui. Rasmussenas nustatė keletą šios bendrosios taisyklės išimčių grupių: i) la. kal̃t / sl. * kőlti , la. mal̃t / sl. * me̋lti ir kt. (prez. sl. * koljǫ̍ , * kolje̍tь…

  • Indo-European long vowels in Balto-Slavic

    Open AccessMiguel Villanueva SvenssonARTICLEBaltistica2011

    INDOEUROPIEČIŲ ILGIEJI BALSIAI BALTŲ IR SLAVŲ KALBOSE Šiuo metu vyrauja dvi pagrindinės teorijos apie ide. ilgųjų balsių raidą baltų ir slavų kalbose: i) pagal „tradicinę“ teoriją ilgųjų balsių refleksai turi akūtinę priegaidę, ii) pagal Kortlandto teoriją – cirkumfleksinę priegaidę. Straipsnyje ginama tradicinė teorija. Kortlandto teorija, ko gero, yra teisinga žodžio galo pozicijoje (plg. lie. akmuõ, duktė̃, vns. naud. -uĩ, dgs. įnag. -aĩs). Žo…

  • The accentuation of the infinitive type Latv. kal̃t , Sl. * kőlti and the development of Indo-European molō -presents in Balto-Slavic

    Open AccessMiguel Villanueva SvenssonARTICLEBaltistica2011

    LA. kal̃t, SL. *kőlti BENDRATIES TIPO KIRČIAVIMAS IR molō-PREZENSŲ RAIDA BALTŲ-SLAVŲ KALBOSE Santrauka Baltų-slavų prokalbėje bendratis buvo pastoviai kirčiuojama galūnėje, kaip rodo latvių ir, iš dalies, slavų faktai. Šaknies ar priesagos kirčiavimas atsirado veikiant Hirto dėsniui. Rasmussenas nustatė keletą šios bendrosios taisyklės išimčių grupių: i) la. kal̃t / sl. *kőlti, la. mal̃t / sl. *me̋lti ir kt. (prez. sl. *koljǫ̍, *kolje̍tь a.p. b, …

  • Daniel Petit, Untersuchungen zu den baltischen Sprachen

    Open AccessMiguel Villanueva SvenssonARTICLEBaltistica2010

  • Frederik Kortlandt, Baltica & Balto-Slavica

    Open AccessMiguel Villanueva SvenssonARTICLEBaltistica2010