Dr. Letas PALMAITIS
Balticist & Orientalist, Ethnologist
Cell. ph. +370 67746906, e-mail: ingrian@sanctpeter.com
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1. Introduction
2. Positions and grants
3. Research work: Orientalistics, INDOEUROPEAN and GENERAL linguistics,
Indoeuropean and Baltic linguistics, Prussology
4. Life programme: N.-Baltic boundary, Toponyms, Rurik, Experimental Prussian,
Documented novel about Ingermanland
5. Support
INDOEUROPEAN LINGUISTICS
It was the monograph by Vytautas Maziulis Relations between Baltic and other Indoeuropean Languages, that arose interest in the non-accusative approach to the problem.
Later the basis of V. Maziulis was broadened with the typological data of the Semitic and Kartvelian languages. This demanded to define own position in the field of general linguistics and to declare a new universal revealed in relation between the gender and the accusative. Essentially new outlook was explanation of the Proto-Language as in time and space "wandering" zone of minimum innovations. This once again, in full correspondence with the other opinions of Vytautas Maziulis and Wolfgang Peter Schmid, showed the mystery of the Batic archaicity although from quite another point of view.
GENERAL LINGUISTICS AND NOSTRATISTICS
Published articles:
1. Parent-language - genetic or contact relationship? / Indogermanische Forschungen [= IF; Berlin-New York] 82, 1977, 50 - 60.
2. Parent-language - genetic or contact relationship? [in Russian] / Voprosy yazykoznaniya [= VY; Moscow], 1978, 1, 51 - 55.
3. Typological notes on the genesis of gender [in Lithuanian] / Baltistica [= Bl; Vilnius], 14, 1978, 1, 27 - 37.
4. The accusative and the gender [in Russian]. / VY, 1979, 4, 90 - 100.
5. On the typology of the aspect: from the Greek system to the Slavic one [in Russian]. / VY, 1981, 4, 45 - 54.
6. Ergativity vs. fientivity [contra W.R.Schmalstieg]. / Bl 24, 1988, 1, 107.
7. Irregular systematic correspondences or the Kartvelian map of Indoeuropean. / In: Proceedings of the Seventh Caucasian Colloquium. Marburg 19 - 23.VII.1994 (in print).
8. Personal pronouns in connection with the problem of reconstructing the Borealic grammatical system [in Russian] / In: Conference on Comparative-Historical Grammar of Nostratic Languages. Institute for Slavic and Balkan Studies [Moscow], 1972, p. 63.
9. Personal pronouns and the reconstruction of the proto-system of the Borealic languages [in Lithuanian]. / Bl 10, 1974, 1, 53 - 63.
10. Personal pronouns in Proto-Afroasiatic and Pra-Indoeuropean in connection with the problem of Borealic reconstructions [in Russian]. / Africana [St.-Peterbourg] 10, 1975, 165 - 174.
11. The place of the Uralic linguistics in solving the Borealic problem [in Russian]. / In: Finno-Ugric Peoples and the Orient. Tartu [The University], 1975, p. 59 - 64.
12. [The same title as in 11]. / Acta et commentationes Universitatis Tartuensis, 1976, 455.
13. On the position of Kartvelian among the other Borealic languages [in Russian]. / In: Conference Nostratic Languages and Nostratic Linguistics. Institute for Slavic and Balkan Studies, 1977, p. 25 - 27.
14. [Together with Igor Klotchkov] Two notes on the Vocabulary by V.M.Illich-Svitych [in Russian]. / Ibid., 72 - 73.
15. An attempt to reconstruct Common-Borealic morphology [in Russian]. / Lingua Posnaniensis 21, 1978, 9 - 24.
16. Five important Kartvelo-Baltic and Kartvelo-Semitic concurrences [in Russian]. / In: Linguistic Reconstructions and the Oldest History of the Orient. Oriental Institute of the Academy of Sciencies of the U.S.S.R. [Moscow], 1984, p. 78 - 80.
17. Review: New contributions to Proto-Nostratic: A.R. Bomhard, Toward Proto-Nostratic / Amsterdam Studies in the Theory and History of Linguistic Science, Series IV - Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, Vol. 27. Amsterdam Phil.: John Benjamins 1984. Oriental Studies, IV, 73 - 96. / IF 91, 1986, 305 - 317.