Intarpiniai ir sta kamieno deduratyvai XVI-XVII a. Lietuvių raštijoje
Infixed and sta-stem Deduratives Attested in Lithuanian Scripts of the 16th–17th Century

Summary/Abstract: The article investigates the morphosemantic opposition durativa / terminativa attested in the Lithuanian scripts dating back to the 16th–17th centuries. Relations of semantic and formal expression of the members of the opposition, the types of predicate situations, areal and chronological distribution are analyzed and the origin of this correlation is considered. The opposites under study are differentiated with respect to the aspectual property of telicity: primary verbs stand for a durative, boundless action, while infixed and sta-stem verbs denote a telic (usually inchoative) and punctual action, and thus can be ascribed to the actional classes of accomplishments and achievements respectively. Prefixation and the prevailing forms of the past tense play a particularly important role in denoting the predicate situations expressed by deduratives.

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