| Title |
Tariamosios nuosakos skaida: sinchroninės morfologijos problemos |
| Translation of Title |
The segmentation of the Lithuanian subjunctive forms: a problem of synchronic morphology. |
| Authors |
Balčiūnienė, Asta |
| Full Text |
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| Is Part of |
Acta linguistica Lithuanica.. Vilnius : Lietuvių kalbos institutas. 2009, t. 61, p. 31-40.. ISSN 1648-4444. eISSN 2669-218X |
| Keywords [eng] |
conjunctive mood ; synchronic morpholog ; linguistic |
| Abstract [eng] |
The morphological segmentation of the Lithuanian subjective mood forms from a synchronic point of view is a problem for which no satisfactory solution has been proposed until now. The basic question is whether the subjunctive mood markers can be reduced to one morpheme with several morphophonological variants, or whether several allomorphs should be recognised. The article discusses the views hitherto presented in the literature (Paulauskienė, Valeckienė, the Academy Grammar and the Grammar of Contemporary Lithuanian). The author points out that the synchronic analysis would be better served by positing a phonetically alternating -t-/-č- (<*(/) suffix. This would simplify the rules for derivation of the subjunctive forms. The assumption that there are two allomorphs, -čia- and -tų/-tum-, is more in agreement with diachronic analysis but poses morphophonological problems, as both the 2nd person eitum and the 3rd person eitų would have to be described as containing zero endings, which leaves the phonetic divergence unaccounted for. |
| Published |
Vilnius : Lietuvių kalbos institutas |
| Type |
Journal article |
| Language |
Lithuanian |
| Publication date |
2009 |
| CC license |
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