From focus marker to comparative suffix – the original character of the Lithuanian comparative -iaũs
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22311327 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Norbert Ostrowski (0000-0001-9046-4981, Instytut Językoznawstwa, Zakład Bałtologii, Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu al. Niepodległości 4, PL-61-874, Poznań Poland, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 126 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 296-308 |
| Publication date | 2013-11-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Historical Linguistics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0935-3518 • E-ISSN: 2196-8071 |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.13109/hisp.2013.126.1.296 |
| OpenAlex | W2334673632 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 6 |
The Lithuanian comparative suffix -iaũ(s), e.g. OLith. geriaus ‘better’ / Modern Lith. geriaũ, has risen from a postpositive contrastive focus particle -jaũ used in the function of ‘emphatic assertion of identity’ (see König 1991). A final consonant /-s/ in -iaũ-s is an etymologically heterogeneous element, appearing optionally in such lexemes as Lith. dial. nèt-s ‘even’ : nèt ‘even’ < OLith. ne-te, OLith. tačiau-s ‘however, but’ : tačiaũ ‘however, but’ < tat ‘this, that’ + -jaũ, OLith. tuojau-s ‘at soon, once’ : tuojaũ < tuo + -jaũ. The primary contrastive function of the suffix -iau-s can be compared to Old Greek -τερος in such uses as δεξίτερος ‘right(-hand)’, emphatic non-σκαιός ‘left(-hand)’
Historical linguistics · Linguistics · Lithuanian · Physics · Suffix · History · Lexicography and Language Studies · Linguistics and language evolution · linguistics and terminology studies · Mathematics · Philosophy
| Citations per year | 0.13 |
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| Citation span | 2018 - 2018 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |