A Few More Possible Traces of the Lost Language Chain of North-East Europe
Abstrak
There are numerous exceptional similarities between some of the east- and southward Finnic languages and Permic languages, in particular in case of the Veps, South-Estonian and Komi languages. The Livonian negative expresses the person and tense by the forms of the negative auxiliary, and the number by the forms of the main verb. The same principle is applied also in the Komi (and Udmurt) language. The manner of the formation of the Veps negative is principally similar to that in Livonian and Komi. The object of the Livonian imperative both in the affirmative and negative may take the genitive form. The genitive could have been the object case from the very beginning in Mordvin (and in Finnic). In certain cases in Baltic and (East-)Slavic languages objects are used in the genitive. It is possible to figure out the formation of the present-day usage of cases of the partial and full objects in Baltic and (East)-Slavic of influence of Finnic- and Mordvin-type languages.
Topik & Kata Kunci
Penulis (1)
Ago Künnap
Akses Cepat
- Tahun Terbit
- 2022
- Sumber Database
- DOAJ
- DOI
- 10.3176/lu.2003.3.01
- Akses
- Open Access ✓