Towards a standard of glossing Baltic languages: The Salos Glossing Rules

Abstract

This paper proposes guidelines for interlinear morpheme glossing of modern Latvian and Lithuanian. The general principles follow the Leipzig Glossing Rules, a widely accepted standard in contemporary linguistics. The authors show how these rules may be adapted to the specifics of Baltic morphology. Details of nominal and verbal morphology of Latvian and Lithuanian are discussed and illustrated with examples of adequate glossing. Wherever possible, the same principles are proposed for both Latvian and Lithuanian, which will facilitate a comparison of these languages. However, different solutions are proposed in some cases where the two languages differ significantly and different interpretations are possible, and those are discussed in particular detail.

Lithuanian reflexive-based impersonals with accusative objects

“…For details on the methods of data collection and processing see section 3. The cited Lithuanian examples are glossed in accordance with the Salos Glossing Rules (Nau & Arkadiev 2015), avoiding unnecessary segmentation. The rest of the article is structured as follows: section 2 contains a short description of reflexives in Lithuanian mainly focussing on the types of transitive reflexives, in section 3 the method for gathering and the structure of the data are presented, section 4 includes an analysis of the data with respect to the research questions.…”

Juk and gi, and “particles” in contemporary Lithuanian: Explaining language-particular elements in a cross-linguistic context

“…I this paper, I adopt Salos Glossing Rules(Nau & Arkadiev 2015).4 Lithuanian and German examples of the present paper for which no sources are indicated were elicited from Lithuanian native speakers (1 female and 2 males around 30 years old, and 1 female around 60). The informants generally agreed in their intuitions.…”