{"content":[{"text":"JIES Reviews","bbox":{"left":0.153043,"top":0.055563,"width":0.11938999999999997,"height":0.018430000000000002}},{"text":"539","bbox":{"left":0.812174,"top":0.05511,"width":0.036707000000000045,"height":0.018852}},{"text":"University of Oxford","bbox":{"left":0.653334,"top":0.098991,"width":0.193311,"height":0.018430000000000002}},{"text":"Linguistics","bbox":{"left":0.153043,"top":0.153958,"width":0.12349000000000002,"height":0.02019399999999999}},{"text":"Pietro U. Dini, ALILETOESCVR: linguistica baltica delle \n origini. Livorno: Books & Company, 2010. 844 pp. ISBN: \n 978-88-7997-115-7.","bbox":{"left":0.153043,"top":0.19159,"width":0.6935689999999999,"height":0.05840500000000001}},{"text":"The “Contents” of Dini’s ALILETOESCVR: linguistica \n baltica delle origini alone takes 14 pages (pp. 7–20). \n Therefore let me only list the main eleven chapters while \n omitting the titles of numerous subchapters: (1) \n “Descriptions of Lithuania and the Slavic Theory,” pp. 50– \n 146; (2) “Myths of Origin and the Linguistic Theories,” pp. \n 147–236; (3) “The Quadruple Theory,” pp. 237–280; (4) \n “Descriptions of Samogitia and Onomastic Interest,” pp. \n 281–340; (5) “Descriptions of Prussia and Theories about \n Prussian,” pp. 339–445; (6) “Diversity of Livonian \n Languages,” pp. 447–524; (7) “Linguistics of Latinizers and \n Variants of the Latin Theory,” pp. 525–568; (8) “Illyrian \n Theory”, pp. 569–618; (9) “Descriptions of Sambia and \n Amber-logy,” pp. 619–650; (10) “The Hebrew Theory,” pp. \n 651–696; (11) “Epilogue: Baltistics before Baltistics?” pp. \n 697–743. Afterward “Sources” (pp. 745–804) and \n Bibliography (pp. 805–844) follow. Unfortunately, an Index \n is missing. Its lack is partly compensated by the wide \n sections of “Sources” and “Bibliography.” All in all \n ALILETOESCVR is an impressive 844 pages opus. \n The author Prof. Pietro U. Dini is a linguist, a well- \n known Balticist working at the University of Pisa (Italy). He \n is a foreign member of both the Lithuanian and Latvian \n Academies of Sciences, an author of numerous books about \n the Baltic countries and cultures, a translator of multiple \n literary works from Lithuanian and Latvian into Italian, an \n author of works in various branches of historical Baltic \n linguistics: first of all Lithuanian, Prussian, and Latvian. \n Dini founded (together with Nikolai Mikhailov) and edited \n an Italian Baltistic journal Res Balticae (1995–2007, vol. 1– \n 11). \n It took at least two decades for Dini to complete \n ALILETOESCVR. According to the bibliography his first","bbox":{"left":0.153043,"top":0.267019,"width":0.693723,"height":0.626438}},{"text":"Volume 41, Number 3 & 4, Fall/Winter 2013","bbox":{"left":0.407536,"top":0.923753,"width":0.439639,"height":0.018429999999999946}}],"images_bbox":[],"images_bbox_not_text_overlap":[]}