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This paper deals with the nominative in temporal adverbials (mainly durative) in Lithuanian. On t... more This paper deals with the nominative in temporal adverbials (mainly durative) in Lithuanian. On the basis of an analysis of a text corpus it was established that certain lexemes show a strong tendency to appear in the nominative in adverbial function. Other constructions involving temporal adverbials in the nominative tend to become fixed expressions. We argue that the so-called nominative object could have played, or still plays, a part in generally supporting the use of temporal and spatial adverbials in the nominative case. When describing the occurrence of the nominative in adverbial function at a synchronic level, it can be said that (a) it occurs mostly with quantifying modifiers before the noun and (b) it describes a time space from some fixed (sometimes unfixed) point in the past up to reference time or, in the case of the present, up to speech time (as in English he has been singing for three hours)
In this paper, the author discusses, if the category „ambipersonal" as postulated as a seman... more In this paper, the author discusses, if the category „ambipersonal" as postulated as a semantic- pragmatic category with grammaticalised realisation in Finnish and Estonian by Hannu Tommola (1993, 1998) has its counterpart in the neighbouring Baltic languages Lithuanian and - to a much lesser extent discussed - Latvian. The Lithuanian and Latvian - and the Baltic Finnic - passive share the feature that virtually any verb can be passivised. In both Baltic languages constructions with neuter participles (Lithuanian) or non-agreeing masculine participles can be identified as ambipersonal, the easiest to identify being constructions with intransitive verbs. In Latvian as in the neighbouring Finnic languages, the actor cannot be overtly named in constructions involving the auxiliary tikt, denoting actions not states. In Lithuanian, this is possible, also, as shown on the base of the electronic corpus of contemporary Lithuanian, quite rare with constructions involving participles in ...
Acta Linguistica Lithuanica, Jan 1, 2005
he has been singing for three hours). wir:NoM 5 schon wievielt: JahnNoM zusammenarbeiten: mit AID... more he has been singing for three hours). wir:NoM 5 schon wievielt: JahnNoM zusammenarbeiten: mit AIDS Zentrum: NOM.PL 6 PRAES.I.PL INS.SG Paulauskienė (1989:74) schreibt dazu: "Vardininko, kaip aplinkybės, funkcija yra šalutinė. [...] Dažniausiai aplinkybių funkciją jis atlieka ne vienas, o sutapęs su kitais žodžiais -skaitvardžiais ir įvardžiais, su jais drauge ir prieveiksmėja" ("Die Advcrbialfunktion des Nominativs ist sekundär. [...] Meist funktioniert er nicht allein als Adverbiale, sondern zusammen mit anderen Wörtern, Numeralia und Pronomina und erstarrt zusammen mit ihnen allmählich zum Adverb"). 3 Im Baskischen, das als Ergativsprachc über keinen Akkusativ verfügt, wird der Nominativ vor allem zum Ausdruck der Zeitdauer herangezogen, nicht jedoch für die Zeitdauer, seit der etwas andauert, die im Incssivsteht (vgl. Lafitte 1978:429). Zum Ostseefinnischen siehe Abschnitt 4. 4 Diese sind jedoch nicht Thema dieses Artikels und werden folglich hier nicht diskutiert werden. 5 Folgende Abkürzungen werden in den grammatischen Glossicrungcn verwendet: ADV: Adverb; Акк:
Acta Baltico Slavica, Jan 1, 2006
This paper deals with the nominative in temporal adverbials (mainly durative) in Lithuanian. On t... more This paper deals with the nominative in temporal adverbials (mainly durative) in Lithuanian. On the basis of an analysis of a text corpus it was established that certain lexemes show a strong tendency to appear in the nominative in adverbial function. Other constructions involving temporal adverbials in the nominative tend to become fixed expressions. We argue that the so-called nominative object could have played, or still plays, a part in generally supporting the use of temporal and spatial adverbials in the nominative case. When describing the occurrence of the nominative in adverbial function at a synchronic level, it can be said that (a) it occurs mostly with quantifying modifiers before the noun and (b) it describes a time space from some fixed (sometimes unfixed) point in the past up to reference time or, in the case of the present, up to speech time (as in English he has been singing for three hours)
In this paper, the author discusses, if the category „ambipersonal" as postulated as a seman... more In this paper, the author discusses, if the category „ambipersonal" as postulated as a semantic- pragmatic category with grammaticalised realisation in Finnish and Estonian by Hannu Tommola (1993, 1998) has its counterpart in the neighbouring Baltic languages Lithuanian and - to a much lesser extent discussed - Latvian. The Lithuanian and Latvian - and the Baltic Finnic - passive share the feature that virtually any verb can be passivised. In both Baltic languages constructions with neuter participles (Lithuanian) or non-agreeing masculine participles can be identified as ambipersonal, the easiest to identify being constructions with intransitive verbs. In Latvian as in the neighbouring Finnic languages, the actor cannot be overtly named in constructions involving the auxiliary tikt, denoting actions not states. In Lithuanian, this is possible, also, as shown on the base of the electronic corpus of contemporary Lithuanian, quite rare with constructions involving participles in ...
Acta Linguistica Lithuanica, Jan 1, 2005
he has been singing for three hours). wir:NoM 5 schon wievielt: JahnNoM zusammenarbeiten: mit AID... more he has been singing for three hours). wir:NoM 5 schon wievielt: JahnNoM zusammenarbeiten: mit AIDS Zentrum: NOM.PL 6 PRAES.I.PL INS.SG Paulauskienė (1989:74) schreibt dazu: "Vardininko, kaip aplinkybės, funkcija yra šalutinė. [...] Dažniausiai aplinkybių funkciją jis atlieka ne vienas, o sutapęs su kitais žodžiais -skaitvardžiais ir įvardžiais, su jais drauge ir prieveiksmėja" ("Die Advcrbialfunktion des Nominativs ist sekundär. [...] Meist funktioniert er nicht allein als Adverbiale, sondern zusammen mit anderen Wörtern, Numeralia und Pronomina und erstarrt zusammen mit ihnen allmählich zum Adverb"). 3 Im Baskischen, das als Ergativsprachc über keinen Akkusativ verfügt, wird der Nominativ vor allem zum Ausdruck der Zeitdauer herangezogen, nicht jedoch für die Zeitdauer, seit der etwas andauert, die im Incssivsteht (vgl. Lafitte 1978:429). Zum Ostseefinnischen siehe Abschnitt 4. 4 Diese sind jedoch nicht Thema dieses Artikels und werden folglich hier nicht diskutiert werden. 5 Folgende Abkürzungen werden in den grammatischen Glossicrungcn verwendet: ADV: Adverb; Акк:
Acta Baltico Slavica, Jan 1, 2006