| Abstract [eng] |
The present work focuses on the infixed and sta-stem verbs attested in the earliest written texts in Lithuanian representing all written variants – western, middle and eastern ones. The aim of the thesis is to explore the verbal system of the infixed and sta-stem verbs of the old scripts, to investigate their morphology and semantics in synchronic and diachronic point of view, to determine the structural peculiarities and tendencies of change of the verbs in question. By applying principles of morphological analysis based on diachronical point of view, the descriptive and inner reconstruction methods and applying systemic analysis, such peculiarities of morphological structure as the forms of the present and past tense, the cases of alternation, and peculiarities of constructional coding in terms of categorical semantics have been investigated. The morphological analysis consists of three parts – the main part focuses on the data of the old scripts and the tendencies of structural variability found in these sources. The competition between different morphological structures, the possible directions of change, and the dialectal phonetic properties exhibited in the authors’ scripts are also analyzed. The structure of the verbs attested is further compared to the data of Lithuanian dialects and contemporary Lithuanian in order to determine the localization and chronology of lexemes as well as tendencies and motives for their change. To analyze the semantic structure of the verbs in question, the methods of predicative and componential analysis have been applied – the predicates are classified according to their aspectual properties by distinguishing secondary, or additional, aspectual classes, their semantic structure is explored, the semantic groups of these verbs are determined, the main target domains of metaphoric use, the transitive and reflexive forms are investigated. |
