Prepozicinis vardažodžių valdomas kilmininkas baltų, Pabaltijo suomių ir skandinavų kalbose (istorinė apžvalga) by Terje Mathiassen

“…Data from Scandinavian historical syntax (Braunmüller's stu­dies in word order) reveal a far more complex picture concerning the historical roots of the preposited genitive in the Nordic languages than one can observe from the smooth surface of to-day's Swedish, Danish and Norwegian which corresponds so neatly with the Baltic and Balto-Finnic languages with respect to the phenomenon in question.…”
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(raie)lank peegeldab aega ja selle lugu by Lembit Vaba

“…The word has no etymological counterparts in other Balto-Finnic languages. In etymological literature, the Estonian lank has been linked to the verb langema ‘to fall’, assuming the formation of a new basic root – lank – through the sound change g > k in the root. …”
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Hipoteza Witolda Mańczaka o ugrofińskim substracie w językach bałtyckich by Krzysztof Tomasz Witczak

“…Mańczak lists as many as ten arguments in support of the substrate theory: According to Meillet (1925: 100–101), the disappearance of the neuter gender in Lithuanian and Latvian occurred under the influence of Balto-Finnic languages, since the category of gender is absent from Finno-Ugric; Old Lithuanian displays secondary local cases (i.e. illative, allative, adessive, ines-sive), formed using postpositions according to the Finno-Ugric pattern (Meillet 1925: 101); The Lithuanian constructions expressing evidentiality (e.g. …”
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