Verba priedēkļi latgaliešu rakstu un latviešu literārajā valodā
Verb prefixes in Standard Latgalian and Standard Latvian

Summary/Abstract: Prefixation is a productive technique of verb derivation in Latvian. In the Standard Latvian language, 11 prefixes are used for verb derivation. In the Standard Latgalian language, the borrowed prefixes pra-, pod-, roz- and da- are used, as well. The aim of the study is to clarify the meanings of the prefixes found only in the Standard Latgalian language, and to establish whether the prefixes found in both Latvian and Latgalian have the same meanings. The hierarchy of foreign prefix meanings used in Latgalian are reflected in the radial meaning models. The models are constructed by analysing the prefixed verbs excerpted from “Corpus of Contemporary Latgalian Texts”, and some other sources. Examples of prefixed verbs used in Latvian standard language are excerpted from “lvTenTen: Corpus of the Latvian Web” and “The Balanced Corpus of Modern Latvian LVK2018”. The results of the study show that the number of meanings of prefixes pra-, pod-, roz- and da- is small. The meanings of these prefixes in the Standard Latvian language are expressed by different prefixes.

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