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Slavonic-Baltic Addenda to the World Lexicon of Grammaticalization Cover

Slavonic-Baltic Addenda to the World Lexicon of Grammaticalization

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|May 2011

Abstract

In the present paper, the author deals with several processes of grammaticalization in Slavonic and Baltic languages. First he describes the expression of predicative possession and obligation and of future in Northern Slavonic and Baltic languages. Further, he deals with the expression of passive in Baltic languages, with examples of the grammaticalization pathway from ‘say’ to evidential in Slavonic languages, and with the origin of some complementizer markers in West Slavonic languages. Finally, he briefly discusses two Slavonic and Baltic examples for pathways leading to ‘comrade’ and ‘other’. In addition, he also discusses contactological aspects of the processes in question.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/v10113-009-0023-x | Journal eISSN: 1338-4287 | Journal ISSN: 0021-5597
Language: English
Page range: 131 - 144
Published on: May 5, 2011
Published by: Slovak Academy of Sciences, Mathematical Institute
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 2 issues per year

© 2011 Bohumil Vykypěl, published by Slovak Academy of Sciences, Mathematical Institute
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons License.

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