Abstract
The article presents the analysis of infixed and sta-stem verbs opposed to ia-stem verbs attested in the old Lithuanian scripts, investigating the opposition causative/anticausative. The research has shown that this morphosemantic opposition was amply testified in the earliest Lithuanian written sources – 59 correlations of this type were recorded in total. More than 50 percent of the equivalents of the oppositions attested exist in the Latvian language as well. This suggests that the causative/anticausative formation belongs to the Eastern Baltic period, and has been crucial to the productivity of the class of infixed and sta-stem verbs. Although not so abundant, the correspondences of the oppositions found in the Slavic and Germanic languages presuppose an even earlier chronology of decausation. The regularity of the semantics and formal structure of the oppositions allow the relations of the opposites to be treated as derivative. This is particularly true in the case of the abundant reflexes of “complex-root” oppositions such as CeRC/CiRC. The abundance of non-present and prefixed forms of the analysed verbs testifies to the specificity of this flexional class in terms of actionality: inchoative, completive, limitative or punctual meaning realised by corresponding prefixes was important for the development of the morphosemantic uniformity of decausatives and has inspired new patterns of word formation, the durative/terminative opposition and the derivation of the denominatives in particular. The study of the causative/anticausative verbal opposition in the old Lithuanian scripts is significant for the history of Lithuanian infixed and sta-stem verbs and for a typological linguistic research.
Highlights
Tradiciškai intarpiniai ir sta kamieno veiksmažodžiai priskiriami pirminių, neišvestinių veiksmažodžių tipui (LKG 2, 222–229; DLKG 2006, 285–286)
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Pakalniškienė Dalia 2018, Intarpiniai ir sta kamieno denominatyvai senojoje lietuvių raštijoje: nominacija ir motyvacija, Res humanitariae 24, Klaipėda: Klaipėdos universiteto leidykla, 61–101
Summary
Tradiciškai intarpiniai ir sta kamieno veiksmažodžiai priskiriami pirminių, neišvestinių veiksmažodžių tipui (LKG 2, 222–229; DLKG 2006, 285–286). Sistemiškesnis požiūris į šias sąsajas leidžia postuluoti išvestinį dalies intarpinių ir sta kamieno veiksmažodžių statusą (Skardžius 1943, 486–488; Hofmann 1956; Kuiper 1937; Temčin 1986, 29–34; Pakalniškienė 2000; 2018; Kazlauskas 1968, 319; Gorbachov 2007; Villanueva-Svensson 2010; 2011; 2016). Lietuvių kalbos intarpinių ir sta kamieno veiksmažodžių formaliųjų ir semantinių santykių reguliarumas su tos pačios šaknies ia kamieno (rečiau kitų struktūrų) veiksmažodžiais kalbininkų yra seniai pastebėtas ir interpretuojamas gana įvairiai (Endzelīns 1951, 764–765; Skardžius 1943, 463–486; Būga 1959, 431–469; Arumaa 1957; Stang 1942; 1966; Kazlauskas 1968, 319–323; LKG 2, 225; Stepanov 1976; Temčin 1986; Karaliūnas 1987; Pakalniškienė 1993; Palmaitis 1998; Kaukienė 1994, 2002; Valeckienė 1998, 27–28; Villanueva-Svensson 2010; Arkadiev 2008; 2013; Gorbachov 2007; 2014 ir kt.).
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