Frontmatter -- Contents -- Contributors -- 1 Introduction: Baltic linguistics - State of the art -- 2. Prosody and dialectology of tonal shifts in Lithuanian and their implications -- 3. The lengthening of the first component of Lithuanian diphthongs in an areal perspective -- 4. Diminutives in spoken Lithuanian and Russian: Pragmatic functions and structural properties -- 5. Latvian attenuative pa-verbs in comparison with diminutives -- 6. Non-canonical case patterns in Lithuanian -- 7. Non-canonical subjects in Latvian: An obliqueness-based approach -- 8. Dative experiencer constructions as a Circum-Baltic isogloss -- 9. Morphological, syntactic, and semantic types of converse verbs in Lithuanian -- 10. Past habitual tense in Lithuanian -- 11. Non-morphological realizations of evidentiality: The case of parenthetical elements in Lithuanian -- 12. Lithuanian indefinite pronouns in contact -- 13. Ištiktukai "eventives" - The Baltic precursors of ideophones and why they remain unknown in typology -- 14. The chicken or the egg? Onomatopoeic particles and verbs in Baltic and Slavic -- Index of languages -- Index of subjects