PROCEEDINGS OF THE LATVIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES

Language of Lejaskurzeme and Time

Keywords: Lejaskurzeme, Central dialect, Curonic subdialects, phonetics, grammar, vocabulary
Language: In Latvian

The article is a review on the monograph Language. Time. Lejaskurzeme by Ieva Ozola and Liene Markus-Narvila, published at the beginning of the summer of 2022 in collaboration between the researchers of Liepāja University and the Institute of Latvian Language, University of Latvia. The monograph is a highly significant study of language and history of culture devoted to the Latvian dialectology, in particular to the description of phonetics, grammar, and vocabulary of Curonic subdialects (Central dialect) spoken in the south-eastern part of Kurzeme (Courland).