Concurrence of Case Forms – Lapse or Norm in Standard Latvian
Concurrence of Case Forms – Lapse or Norm in Standard Latvian

Summary/Abstract: The grammatical and semantic systems of noun categories are undergoing obvious changes in modern Latvian. The most vivid example of such change is in the category of case and it’s semantic structure. There is a concurrence between case forms for different syntactic functions, e.g., for negation G//N ‘makā nav naudas//nauda’/‘there is no money in the wallet’; in debitive construction (these constructions express necessity in Latvian, e.g., Man ir jālasa grāmata ‘I must read a book’. Debitive belongs to the system of moods in Latvian) N//A ‘man ir jālasa grāmata//grāmatu’/‘I must read a book’; and for a negated direct object G//A ‘neteikšu neviena vārda//vārdu’/‘I’ll not say a word’.

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