A Typological perspective on Latvian grammar

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Mokslo publikacijos / Scientific publications
Document Type:
Knyga / Book
Language:
Anglų kalba / English
Title:
A Typological perspective on Latvian grammar
Authors:
Kalnača, Andra
Publication Data:
Berlin : De Gruyter Open, 2014.
Pages:
230 p
Contents:
Abbreviations — Introduction — 1 The Paradigmatics and Declension of Nouns: 1.1 Introductory Remarks on Paradigmatics; 1.2 Declension; 1.3 Case Syncretism; 1.4 Reflexive Nouns; 1.5 Case Polyfunctionality and Case Alternation; 1.6 Gender — 2 The Paradigmatics and Conjugation of Verbs: 2.1 Introductory Remarks; 2.2 Conjugation; 2.3 Tense; 2.4 Person — 3 Aspect: 3.1 Introductory Remarks; 3.2 Imperfective/Perfective Aspect; 3.3 Semelfactive/Iterative Aspect; 3.4 Connection Between Aspect and Tense Meanings — 4 Mood: 4.1 Introductory Remarks; 4.2 Indicative Mood; 4.3 Oblique mood; 4.4 Conditional mood; 4.5 Debitive Mood; 4.6 Imperative Mood — 5 Modality and Evidentiality: 5.1 Introductory Remarks; 5.2 Deontic Modality; 5.3 Epistemic Modality; 5.4 Evidentiality; 5.5 Combination of Modality and Evidentiality — 6 Voice: 6.1 Introductory Remarks; 6.2 Types of Passive in Latvian; 6.3 Voice Form Construction; 6.4 Voice and Lexico-Grammatical Groups of the Verb — 7 Reflexive Verbs: 7.1 Introductory Remarks; 7.2 Reflexive Markers in Latvian; 7.3 Conclusions; 7.4 Semantic Groups of Reflexive Verbs — References — Sources – Index.
Subject Category:
LT
Latvija (Latvia); Lietuva (Lithuania); Latvių kalba / Latvian language; Žodžių daryba. Žodžio dalys / Word formation. Parts of a word.
Summary / Abstract:

ENTheoretical studies of Latvian grammar have a great deal to offer to contemporary linguistics. Although traditionally Lithuanian has been the most widely studied Baltic language in diachronic and synchronic linguistics alike, Latvian has a number of distinctive features that can prove valuable both for historical, and perhaps even more so, for synchronic language research. Therefore, at the very least, contemporary typological, areal, and language contact studies involving Baltic languages should account for data from Latvian. Typologically, Latvian grammar is a classic Indo-European (Baltic) system with well-developed inflection and derivation. However, it also bears certain similarities to the Finno-Ugric languages, which can be reasonably explained by its areal and historical background. This applies, for example, to the mood system and its connections with modality and evidentiality in Latvian, also to the correlation between aspect and quantity as manifested in verbal and nominal (case) forms. The relations between debitive mood, certain constructions with reflexive verbs, and voice in Latvian are intriguing examples of unusual morphosyntactic features. Accordingly, the book focuses on the following topics: case system and declension (with emphasis on the polyfunctionality of case forms), gender, conjugation, tense and personal forms, aspect, mood, modality and evidentiality, reflexive verbs, and voice. The examples included in this book have been taken from the Balanced Corpus of Modern Latvian (Lidzsvarots musdienu latviešu valodas tekstu korpuss, available at www.korpuss.lv), www.google.lv, mass media, and fiction texts (see the List of language sources) without regard to relative frequency ratios.

ISBN:
9783110411317; 9783110426984
Subject:
Kalbotyra / Linguistics
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