For several weeks I had been trying to grasp the basics of Lithuanian intonation, oh-so-poorly described in my introductory grammar. While Beginner’s Lithuanian by Dambriunas, Klimas, and Schmalstieg (New York: Hippocrene, 1998) does a lot of things well, its discussion of pronunciation isn’t so hot. But then a simple Usenet post by Miguel Carrasquer Vidal [...]
Cyril Babaev (founder of the aforementioned Cybalist list) has written a historical grammar of Lithuanian with some interesting comments on Lithuanian’s evolution from Proto-Indo-European. Babaev’s Indo-European Database contains links to other grammars. It is probably the most useful site ever hosted at a Bizland.com address. (Thanks to Rodrigo Portela Sánchez for bring this to my [...]