Vārdkopu reducēšanās un konversija: Emīlijas Soidas interpretācija
Reduction of word-groups and conversion: Emīlija Soida’s contribution

Summary/Abstract: The article deals with syntactic and semantic processes observed in substantivization of the definite forms of adjectives and declinable participles. Emīlija Soida has analysed the syntactic reduction of word-groups as the basis of conversion – a process in which a word or a word-form acquires the semantics and syntactic functions of another part of speech without any change in form. Latvian grammarians working on conversion afterwards have emphasized other aspects of the process, concentrating mainly on distinction between complete or morphological and partial or contextual conversion.The aim of the article is to show that typology of substantivations can be based on the analysis of semantic and syntactic aspects of conversion as proposed by Emīlija Soida.

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