| Autor: |
Loreta Vaičiulytė-Semėnienė |
| Jazyk: |
German<br />English<br />Lithuanian |
| Rok vydání: |
2010 |
| Předmět: |
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| Zdroj: |
Lietuvių Kalba, Iss 4 (2010) |
| Druh dokumentu: |
article |
| ISSN: |
1822-525X |
| DOI: |
10.15388/LK.2010.22853 |
| Popis: |
The paper discusses half-participle structures where the half-participle of būti (‘to be') functions as a copula. The discussion is based on extensive typological linguistic research and universal grammatical hierarchies. Such structures function as free secondary predicates: either as (a) depictives or as (b) circumstantial predicates, cf. (a) Kalanta mirtį pasirinko būdamas devyniolikmetis (‘Kalanta Nom [his] death Acc chose being Nom a nineteen-year old Nom'); (b) Būdamas mažas ganė gyvulius (‘Being Nom small Nom [=a child] [he] pastured herds Acc'). Typically, in unmarked cases, circumstantial predicates are used (but not confined to the position) before the main predicate thus constituting part of a sentence and (or) analytically. Depictives, however, tend to occur after the main predicate and are encoded as a bare case. |
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