Analogijos vaidmuo latvių kalbos asmeninių įvardžių formų raidoje
<p><strong>THE ROLE OF ANALOGY IN THE EVOLUTION OF FORM </strong><strong>IN LATVIAN PERSONAL PRONOUNS</strong></p><p><em>Summary</em></p><p>In the article it is assumed that Latvian personal pronouns have inherited the “classical” cas...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | deu |
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Vilnius University
2011-12-01
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| Series: | Baltistica |
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| Online Access: | http://www.baltistica.lt/index.php/baltistica/article/view/1581 |
| Summary: | <p><strong>THE ROLE OF ANALOGY IN THE EVOLUTION OF FORM </strong><strong>IN LATVIAN PERSONAL PRONOUNS</strong></p><p><em>Summary</em></p><p>In the article it is assumed that Latvian personal pronouns have inherited the “classical” case paradigm from the Lithuanian—Latvian parent language with a well-differentiated inflexion. The great variety of pronominal inflections in Latvian dialects and old manuscripts can be explained by the different conditions affecting the evolution of the language. Word-ending phonological and morphological changes, which created favourable conditions for the so-called changes by analogy, have resulted in morphological modifications in the system of all inflectional words.</p><p>Therefore, the article is concerned with: (a) the process of neutralization of the singular accusative and instrumental cases in the <em>() </em><em>о</em><em> </em>and <em>()</em><em>ā</em>-stem paradigms (which occurred after the above-mentioned phonological changes); (b) the effect of neutralization on identical cases of singular personal pronouns; (c) the effect of prepositions, which govern several cases, on the process of neutralization.</p><p>The article also deals with the influence of the accusative-instrumental cases of singular pronouns on the modification of the plural pronominal paradigms, and with conditions and variants of the modification in question.</p>On the basis of the data from Latvian dialects and old manuscripts a conclusion can be drawn that the modifications in the personal pronominal paradigms could have begun prior to the written language. |
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| ISSN: | 0132-6503 2345-0045 |