Nicole Nau
Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań
Peter Arkadiev
Institute of Slavic Studies, Russian State University for the Humanities
& Sholokhov Moscow State University for the Humanities, Moscow
Towards a standard of glossing Baltic languages: The Salos Glossing Rules
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.