Įvardžiuotiniai būdvardžiai uteniškių tarmėje
Pronominal adjectives in the East-Aukštaitian dialect of Utena

Summary/Abstract: Pronominal adjectives are used very differently in Lithuania. In certain locations they almost do not exist, in other places their paradigms languished a lot. Western Highlanders and Samogitians still maintain the system of pronominal adjectives quite well. Among Eastern Highlanders these adjectives are systematically used in the northern part of the area – in the dialect area of Utena. The purpose of the article is to provide, from all the facts collected, as precise as possible a paradigm of pronominal adjectives in Utena dialect, to compare the paradigms of pronominal adjectives of the dialect and general language and disclose the most important tendencies of change. Conclusions can be made that the contemporary system of pronominal adjectives in Utena dialect is a system of productive declination types with a few surviving remnants of other declination types, consequently the paradigms of pronominal adjectives with other roots are not provided and are not analyzed. The productive declination stems (i)a get inside the non productive stems u. Because of the phonetic development in Utena dialect the singular accusative of i(a) and u stems coincides, so very often the nominal of u stems often acquires the forms of i(a) stem.

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