Baltic Abstracts in *-ī-bā
Baltic abstracts in -ība (e.g. Lith. dial. gyvýba ‘life’ / Latv. dzīvība ‘life’) are built on the basis of the old abstract formations in *-ī < IDE *-ih2, acc.sg. *-ijan. From the acc.sg. *-ijan, a new nom.sg. was formed in *-ijā, which supplanted the inherited nom.sg. *-ī. This, in turn, led to...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Institute of Slavic Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences
2023-12-01
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Series: | Acta Baltico-Slavica |
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Online Access: | https://journals.ispan.edu.pl/index.php/abs/article/view/2911 |