Semantikas noteikta sakārtotu komponentu secība latviešu valodā
Semantics and the order of coordinated components in Latvian

Summary/Abstract: The article deals with the order of coordinated components in Latvian. The analysed language material shows that the order of such components in Latvian is not grammatically determined, yet it is not arbitrary, either. As a result of theoretical and practical research, a number of factors that determine the order of coordinated components are proposed. These factors are: 1) semantic, 2) functional pragmatic, 3) formal factors. This article is focused on semantic factors that determine the basic order of coordinated components in Latvian. As it is possible to coordinate words of an extremely varied meaning, the semantic factors are organised in groups according to the meaning of the conjoined words. The separate semantic aspects subject to analysis include: 1) iconic sequencing, 2) hierarchical relations, 3) cognitive-emotional perception. The influence of these factors in Latvian is analysed in detail using the language data retrieved from “Latvian Treebank” and “The Balanced Corpus of Modern Latvian”. While several constraints were set, the retrieved language material used for practical research is semantically extensive and varied, as it includes coordinate structures of nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs.

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