The area around the Baltic Sea has for millennia been a meeting-place for people of different origins. Among the circum-Baltic languages, we find three branches of Indo-European - Baltic, Germanic and Slavic. This volume studies selected phenomena in the grammars of the circum-Baltic languages.

1. Part 0: Introduction; 2. The Circum-Baltic Languages: Introduction to the volume (by Dahl, Osten); 3. Part 4: Selected topics in the grammar of the Circum-Baltic languages; 4. Impersonals and passives in Baltic and Finnic (by Holvoet, Axel); 5. On the development of the nominative object in East Baltic (by Ambrazas, Vytautus); 6. Lexical evidence for the parallel development of the Latvian and Livonian verb particles (by Walchli, Bernhard); 7. On the developments of the Estonian aspect: The verbal particle ara (by Metslang, Helle); 8. Case systems and syntax in Latvian and Estonian (by Metuzale-Kangere, Baiba); 9. Genitive positions in Baltic and Finnic languages (by Christen, Simon); 10. Part 5: Typological perspectives; 11. "A piece of the cake" and "a cup of tea": Partitive and pseudo-partitive nominal constructions in the Circum-Baltic languages (by Koptjevskaja-Tamm, Maria); 12. Nonverbal predication in the Circum-Baltic languages (by Stassen, Leon); 13. On Circum-Baltic instrumentals and comitatives: To and fro coherence (by Stolz, Thomas); 14. Part 6: Synthesis; 15. The Circum-Baltic languages: An areal-typological approach (by Koptjevskaja-Tamm, Maria); 16. Appendix; 17. Name index; 18. Language index; 19. Subject index