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Associate Professor
Address: Universiteto 5, LT-01513 Vilnius, Department of Baltic Studies, Institute for the Languages and Cultures of the Baltic
Telephone: +370 5 268 7211
Research interests
- Indo-European linguistics
- Balto-Slavic linguistics
- Baltic linguistics
Courses taught
- Spanish Linguistics (Phonetics and Phonology, Morphology, Word formation, Syntax, Language History, Historical Grammar, Dialectology)
PUBLICATIONS
- Villanueva Svensson, M. 2022. Samprasāraṇa ablaut in the Balto-Slavic verb. Melanie Malzahn, Hannes A. Fellner, Theresa-Susanna Illés (eds.), Zurück zur Wurzel. Struktur, Funktion und Semantik der Wurzel im Indogermanischen. Akten der 15. Fachtagung der Indogermanischen Gesellschaft vom 13. bis 16. September 2016 in Wien. Wiesbaden: Reichert, 295-303.
- Villanueva Svensson, M. 2022. The origin of the Slavic 2 sg. present ending. Acta linguistica Petropolitana 18 (1), 426-443 [Colloquia Classica et Indogermanica VII. Miscellanea in Honorem Nikolai N. Kazansky Septuagenarii].
- Villanueva Svensson, M. 2021. The origin of the Indo-European simple thematic presents: the nominal connection. Indo-European Linguistics 9, 264-292.
- Villanueva Svensson, M. 2021. Nieminen’s law revisited. Baltistica 56 (1), 5-18.
- Villanueva Svensson, M. 2021. Nieminen’s law revisited. Baltistica 56 (1), 5-18.
- Villanueva Svensson, M. 2020. Osthoff’s law in Balto-Slavic. Luka Repanšek, Harald Bichlmeier, Velizar Sadovski (eds.), vácām̐si miśrā́ kṛṇavāmahai. Proceedings of the international conference of the Society for Indo-European Studies and IWoBA XII, Ljubljana 4-7 June 2019, celebrating one hundred years of Indo-European comparative linguistics at the University of Ljubljana. Hamburg: Baar, 645-661.
- Villanueva Svensson, M. 2020. Balto-Slavic Accentology. Auslautgesetze and the Baltic Secondary Local Cases. Baltistica 55 (1), 5-42.
- Villanueva Svensson, M. 2020. The Balto-Slavic ā-aorist. Transactions of the Philological Society 118 (3), 376-400.
- Villanueva Svensson, M. 2019. The Infinitive in Baltic and Balto-Slavic. Indo-European Linguistics 7, 194-221.
- Villanueva Svensson, M. 2018. Indo-European *pr- and *pṛh2- “before, in front of”. Indogermanische Forschungen 123, 137-157.
- Villanueva Svensson, M. 2018. [rec.] Jay Jasanoff, The Prehistory of the Balto-Slavic Accent, Leiden-Boston: Brill, 2017. Kratylos, 63 143-160.
- Villanueva Svensson, M. 2018. [rec.] Yoko Yamazaki, Monosyllabic Cicumflexion in Lithuanian. Stockholm University 2016. Scando-Slavica, 64 (1), 107-111.
- Villanueva Svensson, M. 2017/2018. The conditioning of the Balto-Slavic i-apocope. Münchener Studien zur Sprachwissenschaft 71 (2), 277-304.
- Villanueva Svensson, M. 2017. Lith. namõ, OCS doma and the PIE directive. Historische Sprachforschung 130, 121-140.
- Villanueva Svensson, M. 2017. En torno a germ. *hanhista-/*hangista-, lit. šankùs. Juan Antonio Álvarez-Pedrosa, Alberto Bernabé, Eugenio Luján & Fernando Presa (eds.), Ratna. Homenaje a la profesora Julia Mendoza. Madrid: Guillermo Escolar Editor, 171-177.
- Villanueva Svensson, M. 2017. Lith. rìsti, rìta “roll”, OCS ‑rěsti, ‑ręštǫ “find” and the PIE root *ret- in Balto-Slavic. Baltistica 52 (2), 265-285.
- Villanueva Svensson, M. (kartu su Marta Plaza Velasco, José Antonio Calzón García, Aistė Kučinskienė, Dovilė Kuzminskaitė, Paula Pulgar Alves) 2017. Enseñar español en Lituania. La creación de los estudios hispánicos. En María del Carmen Méndez Santos & María Mar Galindo Merino (eds.), Atlas del ELE. Geolingüística del español en el mundo. Volumen 1: Europa Oriental. Madrid: enClave-ELE, 289-307.
- Villanueva Svensson, M. 2016. Lith. ankstì, artì, tolì and Baltic and Slavic Auslautgesetze. Scando-Slavica 62 (2), 160-182.
- Villanueva Svensson, M. 2016. Zero-grade denominative nasal and sta-presents in Baltic. Baltistica 51 (1), 37-59.
- Villanueva Svensson, M. 2016. Notes on the Balto-Slavic verb: The reflexes of PIE *pleu̯- and *ḱleu̯- in Balto-Slavic. Bjarne Simmelkjær Sandgaard Hansen, Benedicte Nielsen Whitehead, Thomas Olander & Birgit Anette Olsen (eds.), Etymology and the European Lexicon. Proceedings of the 14th Fachtagung der Indogermanischen Gesellschaft, 17-22 September 2012, Copenhagen. Wiesbaden: Reichert, 467-478.
- Villanueva Svensson, M. 2016. Indoeuropiečių kalbotyros pagrindai. Antras pataisytas ir papildytas leidimas. Vilnius: Vilniaus universiteto leidykla. Elektroninis leidinys.
- Villanueva Svensson, M. 2016. [rec.] Altlitauisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (ALEW). Unter der Leitung von Wolfgang Hock und der Mitarbeit von Elvira-Julia Bukevičiūtė und Christiane Schiller bearbeitet von Rainer Fecht, Anna Helene Feulner, Eugen Hill und Dagmar S. Wodtko (Studien zur historisch-vergleichenden Sprachwissenschaft, 7), Hamburg: Baar, 2015. Kratylos, 61, 53-74.
- Villanueva Svensson, M. 2014[2016]. The distribution of the 3rd sg. endings of the Indo-European middle present.Historische Sprachforschung, 127, 68-100.
- Villanueva Svensson, M. 2015. [rec.] Thomas Olander, Proto-Slavic Inflectional Morphology. A Comparative Handbook(Brill’s Studies in Indo-European Languages & Linguistics, 14), Leiden-Boston: Brill, 2015. Kratylos, 60, 103-111.
- Villanueva Svensson, M. 2015. [rec.] Rick Derksen, Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series, 13), Leiden-Boston: Brill, 2015. Baltistica, 50 (1), 153-172.
- Villanueva Svensson, M. 2015. Depalatalization in the ia-Presents of the u-Series of Ablaut. Artūras Judžentis & Stephan Kessler (eds.), Contributions to Morphology and Syntax. Proceedings of the 4th Greifswald University Conference on Baltic Languages. Berlin: Logos Verlag, 301-321.
- Villanueva Svensson, M. 2015. The development of *ōu in Baltic. Indogermanische Forschungen, 120, 313-328.
- Villanueva Svensson, M. 2014. Tone variation in the Baltic ia-presents. Indogermanische Forschungen, 119, 227-249.
- Villanueva Svensson, M. 2014. The origin of the denominative type Lith. ‑áuti, ‑áuja, OCS ‑ovati, ‑ujǫ. Baltistica, 49 (2), 251-264.
- Villanueva Svensson, M. 2014. Gk. λέπω, Lith. lùpti, Ru. lupít' "to peel". Studia Etymologica Cracoviensia, 19, 179-187.
- Villanueva Svensson, M. 2014. On the relationship between West Baltic and East Baltic. Tatjana Civjan, Marija Zavjalova & Artūras Judžentis (eds.), Baltai ir slavai: dvasinių kultūrų sankirtos / Балты и славяне: пересечения духовных культур. Vilnius: Versmė, 162-176.
- Villanueva Svensson, M. 2013. Two Baltic irregular preterites: Lith. dãvė "gave", ėmė "took"”. Baltistica, 48 (2), 225-244.
- Villanueva Svensson, M. 2013. [rec.] Benedicte Nielsen Whitehead, Thomas Olander, Birgit Anette Olsen, Jens Elmegård Rasmussen (eds.), The Sound of Indo-European: Phonetics, Phonemics, and Morphophonemics, Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press, 2012. Baltistica, 48 (2), 337-342.
- Villanueva Svensson, M. 2012/2013. On the origin of the Greek type νωμάω. Die Sprache, 50 (1), 44-62.
- Villanueva Svensson, M. 2012. [rec.] Roman Sukač (ed.), From Present to Past and Back. Papers on Baltic and Slavic Accentology, Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2011. Baltistica, 47 (1), 160-166.
- Villanueva Svensson, M. 2012. [rec.] Saulius Ambrazas, Būdvardžių darybos raida, Vilnius: Lietuvių kalbos institutas, 2011. Lietuvių kalba, 6.
- Villanueva Svensson, M. 2012. Latin crēscō. Glotta, 88. 2012. 239-252.
- Villanueva Svensson, M. 2012. A note on the Baltic future participle. Baltistica, 47 (1). 2012. 15-21.
- Villanueva Svensson, M. 2012.The ablaut of the middle root athematic presents in Indo-European. Craig Melchert (ed.), The Indo-European Verb. Proceedings of the Conference of the Society for Indo-European Studies, Los Angeles, 13-15 September 2010. Wiesbaden: Reichert Verlag, 333-342.
- Villanueva Svensson, M. 2012. Indoeuropiečių kalbotyros pagrindai. Vilnius: Vilniaus universiteto leidykla. Elektroninis leidinys.
- Villanueva Svensson, M. 2011[2012]. Anticausative-inchoative verbs in the northern Indo-European languages. Historische Sprachforschung, 124, 33-58.
- Villanueva Svensson, M. 2010/2011[2012]. Indo-European Middle Root Aorists in Anatolian (Part II). Die Sprache 49 (1), 6-25.
- Villanueva Svensson, M. 2011. The derivational history of Lith. šerdìs, OCS srěda. International Journal of Diachronic Linguistics and Linguistic Reconstruction 8 (2), 161-172.
- Villanueva Svensson, M. 2011. The origin of the type Lith. bliáuti, bliáuja, Latv. bļaût, bļaûju in a Balto-Slavic perspective. Baltistica 46 (2), 201-223.
- Villanueva Svensson, M. 2011. Indo-European long vowels in Balto-Slavic. Baltistica 46 (1), 5-38.
- Villanueva Svensson, M. 2011. The accentuation of the infinitive type Latv. kal̃t, Sl. *kőlti and the development of Indo-European molō-presents in Balto-Slavic. V. Rinkevičius (ed.), Baltistica VII priedas. Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Balto-Slavic Accentology. Vilnius: Vilniaus Universiteto leidykla, 301-326.
- Villanueva Svensson, M. 2010. Baltic sta-Presents and the Indo-European desiderative. Indogermanische Forschungen115, 204-233.
- Villanueva Svensson, M. 2007/2008[2010]. Indo-European Middle Root Aorists in Anatolian (Part I). Die Sprache 47 (2), 203-238.
- Villanueva Svensson, M. 2010. [rec.] Frederik Kortlandt, Baltica & Balto-Slavica, Amsterdam-New York: Rodopi, 2009.Baltistica 45 (2), 364-369.
- Villanueva Svensson, M. 2010. [rec.] Daniel Petit, Untersuchungen zu den Baltischen Sprachen. Leiden-Boston: Brill, 2010. Baltistica 45 (2), 359-364.
- Villanueva Svensson, M. 2009. [rec.] Sergio Neri, cadere e abbatere in indoeuropeo. Sull’ etimologia di tedesco fallen, latino aboleo e greco απόλλυμι. Innsbruck: Institut für Sprachwissenschaft der Universität Innsbruck, 2007. Baltistica 44 (2), 393-397.
- Villanueva Svensson, M. 2009. Sobre la 1ª persona de singular del pretérito medio hitita ‑hhahat(i), licio ‑xagã. Aula Orientalis 27 (2), 279-283.
- Villanueva Svensson, M. 2009. Indo-European *sk’ in Balto-Slavic. Baltistica 44 (1), 5-24.
- Villanueva Svensson, M. 2008. Lithuanian žinóti "to know". Baltistica, 43 (2), 175-199.
- Villanueva Svensson, M. 2008. [rec.] Wojciech Smoczyński, Laringalų teorija ir lietuvių kalba. Vilnius: Lietuvių kalbos institutas, 2006. Baltistica, 43 (1), 115-123.
- Villanueva Svensson, M. 2006. Traces of *o-Grade Middle Root Aorists in Baltic and Slavic. Historische Sprachforschung, 119, 295-317.
- Villanueva Svensson, M. 2006. Old Lithuanian pame(d)mi "imitate". Baltistica, 41 (1), 95-97.
- Villanueva Svensson, M. 2005. The Baltic ē-Preterit revisited. Baltistica, VI Priedas, 239-252.
- Villanueva Svensson, M. 2005. [rec.] Jay H. Jasanoff, Hittite and the Indo-European Verb. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. Baltistica, 40 (1), 122-126.
- Villanueva Svensson, M. 2005. [rec.] Erdvilas Jakulis, Lietuvių kalbos tekėti, teka tipo veiksmažodžiai. Vilnius: VU leidykla, 2004. Baltistica, 40 (1), 118-122.
- Villanueva Svensson, M. 2004. Lithuanian miegóti "sleep". Baltistica, 39 (2), 179-187.
- Villanueva Svensson, M. 2002. A PIE apocope *-oHe > *-oH and related morphological problems. Indogermanische Forschungen, 107, 106-123.
- Villanueva Svensson, M. 2002. Las desinencias medias indoeuropeas en *‑r. Actas del IIº Congreso de la Sociedad Española de Lingüística.II. Madrid, 111-115.
- Villanueva Svensson, M. 2001. Gaulish ieuri/ειωραι and the 2nd/3rd dual ending of the Indo-European Perfect and Middle. Historische Sprachforschung, 114, 147-163.
- Villanueva Svensson, M. 2001. [rec.] Connor Ferris, Finish and Indo-European. Sifting the evidence. Chiangmai : Humanities and Allied Research Press, 2000. Cuadernos de Filología Clásica (Estudios Griegos e Indoeuropeos), 11, 369-370.
- Villanueva Svensson, M. 2000. [rec.] Carlos Jordán Colera, Introducción al Celtibérico. Monografías de Filología Griega - 10. Departamento de Ciencias de la Antigüedad. Universidad de Zaragoza, 1998. Cuadernos de Filología Clásica (Estudios Griegos e Indoeuropeos), 10, 343-346.
- Villanueva Svensson, M. 2000. [rec.] Baltų religijos ir mitologijos šaltiniai, I. Nuo seniausių laikų iki XV amžiaus pabaigos. Sudarė Norbertas Vėlius. Vilnius: Mokslo ir enciklopedijų leidykla, 1996. ‘Ilu, Revista de Ciencias de las Religiones, 4, 287-289.
- Villanueva Svensson, M. 1999 [2001]. The Italic simple r-endings. Glotta, 75, 252-266.
- Villanueva Svensson, M. 1998. [rec.] Bridget Drinka, The Sigmatic Aorist in Indo-European: Evidence for the Space-Time Hypothesis, Journal of Indo-European Studies, Monograph 13, Washington, Institute for the Study of Man, 1995. Cuadernos de Filología Clásica (Estudios Griegos e Indoeuropeos), 8, 241-244.
- Villanueva Svensson, M. 1998. [rec.] Edgar C. Polomé (ed.), Indo-European Religion after Dumézil, Journal of Indo-European Studies, Monograph 16, Washington, Institute for the Study of Man, 1996. ‘Ilu, Revista de Ciencias de las Religiones. 3, 359-361.
RESEARCH AND OTHER ACTIVITIES
PhD Thesis
- 2003-06-02 La categoría de voz en el sistema verbal indoeuropeo (Madrid Complutense University)
Conferences
- Tone variation among Baltic ia-presents. Arbeitstagung der indogermanischen Gesellschaft “The lengthened grade in Indo-European”. Leiden, 2013 07 29–31.
- Notes on the Balto-Slavic Verb. 14th Fachtagung of the Indogermanische Gesellschaft “Etymology and the European Lexicon”. Copenhagen, 2012 09 17–22.
- On the reconstruction of verbs with second stem in Baltic and Balto-Slavic. XI starptautiskais baltistu kongress. Riga, 2010 09 27–30.
- The ablaut of the root athematic presents in Indo-European. Arbeitstagung der indogermanischen Gesellschaft The Indo-European Verb. UCLA, 2010 09 13–15 d.
- On the accentuation of the infinitive type Latv. kal̃t, Sl. *kőlti“. 6th International Workshop on Balto-Slavic Accentology. Vilnius University, 2010 07 7-10 d.
- Some aspects of the reconstruction of the Balto-Slavic verb. XIXth International Conference on Historical Linguistics. Radboud University Nijmegen, 2009 08 10–14 d.