Old Latvian comparative constructions
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Old Latvian comparative constructions
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Baltu filoloģija. 2021, t. 30, nr. 1-2, p. 93-99
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LTReikšminiai žodžiai: Palyginamosios konstrukcijos; Senoji latvių kalba; Istorinė sintaksė; Comparative constructions; Old Latvian; Historical syntax.
ENWhat functioned as the primary comparative construction in seventeenth-century Latvian was a construction with the conjunction nekā ‘than’ (literally: ‘not like’), which typologically represents the so-called conjoined comparative in Stassen’s terminology (Stassen 1985). This is consistent with the state of affairs evidenced in sixteenth-century Lithuanian, where, as primary comparative constructions of inequality (COI), we find constructions with conjunctions comprising negation: neg(i), nei(gi), neng, nekaip, net, nent ‘than’ (Ostrowski 2018). [Publisher annotation]
DOI:
10.22364/bf.30.05
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1691-0036
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Related Publications:
Grammaticalization of the Lithuanian comparative -jau(s) / Norbert Ostrowski. Indogermanische Forschungen. 2018, 123, p. 273-292.
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