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Depiktyvų žymėjimas lietuvių kalboje
Marking of Depictives in Lithuanian

Author(s): Veslava Čižik-Prokaševa
Subject(s): Theoretical Linguistics, Syntax, Comparative Linguistics, Baltic Languages
Published by: Lietuvių Kalbos Institutas
Keywords: secondary predicate; depictive; marking of depictives;

Summary/Abstract: The article deals with the marking of secondary non-resultative predicates (depictives) in Lithuanian language. In this article, depictives are divided into two groups: syntactic depictives and semantic depictives, each group is discussed in detail: by every possible form of depictive. In this article, I laboured to show how depictives in Lithuanian language are different from depictives in other languages, and to supplement the data given in Lithuanian language grammars and studies of syntax. Based on the frequency of the use of certain depictives, two hierarchies are given: a hierarchy of cases of depictives and a hierarchy of forms of depictives.

  • Issue Year: 2011
  • Issue No: 62-63
  • Page Range: 128-158
  • Page Count: 31
  • Language: Lithuanian