Pirminių veiksmažodžių klasių semantika
The Semantics of Verb Classes in Lithuanian Against a Typological Background

Summary/Abstract: lt is argued in this article that at least two inflectional classes of Lithuanian primary verbs have a strong semantic motivation, and that the semantic regularities correlating with Lithuanian verbal inflection classes are typologically significant. The largest inflectional classes, 7-verbs and n/st-verbs, have clear semantic dominants. The morphosyntactic classification of verbs through grammaticalisation of semantic parameters relating to event structure, such as agentivity vs. patientivity, telicity vs. atelicity, action vs. change of state, is argued to be a fact of Universal Grammar.

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