On the Semantics of Illatives laukan, laukuosun in the Subdialects of the Eastern Aukštaitian of Vilnius Cover Image

Dėl iliatyvų laukan, laukuosun semantikos rytų aukštaičių vilniškių šnektose
On the Semantics of Illatives laukan, laukuosun in the Subdialects of the Eastern Aukštaitian of Vilnius

Author(s): Daiva Kardelytė-Grinevičienė
Subject(s): Theoretical Linguistics, Phonetics / Phonology, Lexis, Semantics, Sociolinguistics, Baltic Languages
Published by: Lietuvių Kalbos Institutas
Keywords: Subdialects of the Eastern Aukštaitian of Vilnius; illative laukan; laukuosun; illative semantics; illative adverbialization;

Summary/Abstract: Based on the theoretical principles of reference linguistics, the article discusses the semantic peculiarities of the lexeme laukas illative forms laukan, laukuosun in the subdialects of the Eastern Auk taitian of Vilnius. It brings forward several questions: a) how the illatives of the lexeme laukas used in different contexts differ from the defined function of this form and b) whether the meaning of the illative, being a paradigmatic case, differs from the principal meanings of the lexeme laukas. It also discusses the issue of adverbialization of the singular illative laukan.

  • Issue Year: 2013
  • Issue No: 68
  • Page Range: 92-104
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: Lithuanian