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The East Baltic Subjunctive: A Contribution to the Historical Morphology of Infinitive-Based Verbal Formations

The East Baltic Subjunctive: A Contribution to the Historical Morphology of Infinitive-Based Verbal Formations

Fries, Simon

Hardcover

Series: Studies in Language Change [Slc], Book 27

Foreign Language GeneralLinguistics

ISBN10: 3119149209
ISBN13: 9783119149204
Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton
Published: Oct 6 2025
Pages: 442
Weight: 1.76
Height: 1.13 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

The two East Baltic languages Lithuanian and Latvian feature a secondary mood of potentiality, known as the subjunctive that ultimately goes back to the supine, an infinitival form. Setting out with a general discussion of the historical relation between the two East Baltic languages, this book seeks to explain why, when and how the supine developed into the subjunctive. In doing so, it provides the first exhaustive account of the evolution of the morphosyntactic paradigm of the subjunctive and all its attested forms in the East Baltic dialects. It thereby contributes to our understanding of the emergence of morphosyntactic structures and the typology of infinitive-based verbal formations.

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