Baltic context of some Estonian periphrastic constructions
LTReikšminiai žodžiai: Baltų kalbos; Estų kalba; Būdvardinės konstrukcijos; Periphrastic causative constructions; Factitive causative constructions; Permissive causative constructions; Finnic languages; Baltic languages; Circum-Baltic area.
ENI discuss 4 Estonian periphrastic causative constructions based on laskma, andma, panema, and sundima with respect to semantic shift from non-causative to causative use. These constructions have parallels in Baltic, and I suggest that laskma belongs to the largest area of development, ‘release’ >‘let’, attested in many Finno- Ugric and Indo-European languages, notably, in Germanic, Baltic, and to some extent, Slavic. The verb andma, which evolved as ‘give’ >‘let’ (>‘be possible’), belongs to a smaller area of similar changes that occurred in Finnic, Baltic, and Slavic, while panema as ‘put’ >‘make’ belongs to the smallest area (some Finnic and some Baltic languages). The verb sundima, as a Slavic loan, has parallel borrowings in a number of Finnic and Baltic languages, but only in Estonian has the causative use of this predicate developed. [From the publication]
- Old Prussian dāt ‘give’ in causative and hortative constructions / Jurgis Pakerys. Baltic linguistics. 2017, 8, p. 115-141.
- Periphrastic causative constructions in Baltic. An overview / Jurgis Pakerys. Baltic linguistics. 2018, 9, p. 111-139.
