The Structural Patterns of Lithuanian Affixes
The Structural Patterns of Lithuanian Affixes
Author(s): Asta Kazlauskienė, Jurgita Cvilikaitė-MačiulskienėSubject(s): Theoretical Linguistics, Morphology, Baltic Languages, Evaluation research, Philology
Published by: Kauno Technologijos Universitetas
Keywords: morpheme; prefix; suffix; flexion; vowel; consonant;
Summary/Abstract: The aim of this research is to identify the main structural patterns of affixes of Lithuanian inflective words, their productivity and frequency. We present a survey of the structural diversity and productivity of these morphemes rendered in The Dictionary of Modern Lithuanian and in The Grammar of Modern Lithuanian. The frequency data was collected from The Database of the Morphemics of the Lithuanian Language. The morpheme analysis revealed the following tendencies: 1) while prefixes are always monosyllabic, suffixes and flexions can vary from non-syllabic to trisyllabic, and 2) within these morphemes, consonant clusters are not frequent.
Journal: Kalbų Studijos
- Issue Year: 2019
- Issue No: 34
- Page Range: 17-31
- Page Count: 15
- Language: English
