The verb vajadzēt ‘to need, must’ in Latvian: its Livonian origins, modal and distributional features
The focus of this study is on the Latvian modal verb vajadzēt ‘to need, must’ derived from the noun vajaga ‘need, necessity’ believed to be a borrowing from Livonian vajag, vajāg ‘need, necessary’. The objective of this study is to provide a full, comprehensive description of the grammatical forms...
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University of Tartu Press
2022-09-01
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| Series: | Eesti ja Soome-ugri Keeleteaduse Ajakiri |
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| Online Access: | https://ojs.utlib.ee/index.php/jeful/article/view/18655 |