Query Details
| Query Subject: |
Aspect in the Baltic Languages
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| Author: | Rose Thomas | |
| Submitter Email: | click here to access email | |
| Language Family: |
Eastern Baltic
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| Query: |
Dear Linguists,
Can anybody give me any information on how Perfective/Imperfective Aspect is expressed in the Baltic Indo-European languages (Lithuanian and Latvian)? Is it expressed via the use of a prefix to indicate Perfectivity, as in Russian? Or, since I know that Latvian, at least, uses its genitive case with Partitive function, is the aspectual distinction indicated, as in the Baltic Finnic languages, by an Accusative/Partitive genitive alternation? Or do these languages use a mixture of both? So far, the information I have been able to find relating to this matter has been contradicatory, so I would be very grateful if anyone could clear this up. Thanks, Rose Thomas rose_thomas33@hotmail.com |
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| LL Issue: | 8.1471 | |
| Date posted: | 12-Oct-1997 | |
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