Laika akuzatīva un lokatīva opozīcija un aspekts latviešu valodā
Opposition of temporal accusative and locative and aspect in Latvian

Summary/Abstract: This paper aims to analyze the opposition of temporal accusative and locative and its combinability with the aspectual opposition. The temporal accusative or durative denotes the interval in which a situation takes places, the temporal locative or terminative denotes the interval in which a situation realizes. The opposition of temporal accusative and locative correlates with the aspectual opposition perfective/imperfective. Among aspectually correlative verbs, the imperfective verb connects with the temporal accusative, while the perfective verb connects with the temporal locative. Among aspectually unpaired verbs, the aspect is determined by the one or another case, or one or another case is preferably chosen according to the lexical meaning of the verb. The temporal locative features a proportional evaluation of situation’s realization in regard to the limited time. The analysis of the nominal phrases with the temporal locative shows that the temporal locative pragmatically supposes relatively a short interval, and the temporal accusative – relatively a long interval.

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