Norādāmo vietniekvārdu sarunvalodas varianti latviešu valodas tīmekļa tekstos
Colloquial variants of demonstrative pronouns in Latvian online texts

Summary/Abstract: The use of colloquial variants of demonstrative pronouns is one of the characteristic features of colloquialism in Latvian language. The aim of the study is to identify and aggregate these variants. The theoretical base of the study consists of grammars, dictionaries and monographs of Latvian language, which mention and discuss demonstrative pronouns and their colloquial variants. The variants found in the actual use of the language were located in the corpora “Latvian Blog Corpus 2015”, “Latvian Web Corpus 2007”, “CommonCrawl of Latvian 2020”, and “Articles from Latvian news portals”. In total, 22 colloquial variants of demonstrative pronouns were found in theoretical literature and corpora. A qualitative analysis of the colloquial variants of demonstrative pronouns was performed, using the examples excerpted from the author’s own language material. It consists of blog texts and comments, news portal texts and comments, and Instagram stories. It was concluded that several variants that exist in real language use have not stabilized. When creating new variants, there is a tendency to devise longer forms from the existing colloquial variants of demonstrative pronouns or their compounds. The qualitative analysis shows that colloquial variants of demonstrative pronouns are used both to express a negative emotional expression and to give a stylistic expression without a negative connotation.

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