The Tendencies of Substantive Stem Alteration in 19th Century Texts Written in the Eastern Aukštaitian Dialect Cover Image

Daiktavardžių kamienų kaitos tendencijos XIX amžiaus raštuose rytų aukštaičių patarme
The Tendencies of Substantive Stem Alteration in 19th Century Texts Written in the Eastern Aukštaitian Dialect

Author(s): Regina Rinkauskienė
Subject(s): Theoretical Linguistics, Phonetics / Phonology, Historical Linguistics, Baltic Languages
Published by: Lietuvių Kalbos Institutas
Keywords: 19th century; religious texts; Eastern Aukštaitian dialect; substantive stems; mixing;

Summary/Abstract: The article addresses the matters of morphology of the 19th century texts written in the Eastern Aukštaitian dialect. It reviews the language of religious texts written by several authors of that time – Mykolas Cerauskas, Laurynas Bortkevičius, Henrikas Balevičius, Mykolas Smolskis, Tadas Lichodzejauskas, Kazimieras Michnevičius-Mikėnas, Antanas Kitkevičius, Andrius Benediktas Klungys. The article focuses on the issues of morphology of the noun. It discusses the tendencies of substantive stem alteration. It has been observed that in the majority of cases substantive stem alterations are also characteristic of contemporary Eastern Aukštaitian dialect

  • Issue Year: 2015
  • Issue No: 73
  • Page Range: 220-229
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: Lithuanian
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