Old Lithuanian Local Cases And The Etruscan Locative Constructions: A Typological Comparison

• Authors: Krzysztof T Witczak
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

In this paper the Old Lithuanian local cases of secondary origin (namely the inessive, the adessive, the illative and the allative) are compared with the Etruscan locative constructions derived from the locative or the different cases by means of some postpositions. The similarity of both the derivational features and the grammatical functions allows to give the exact definitions for the Etruscan constructions in question, which may be treated alternatively as the “secondary local cases”: the inessive (in -θi), the illative (in -te, tei, -ti), the destinative (in -ri), the allative (in -pi) and the adessive (in -tra). The suggested names of these cases are taken from the terminology used in Ugro-Fennic linguistics.

Keywords

EN

Old Lithuanian; case; Etruscan; inessive; adessive; illative; allative

• Publisher: Poznańskie Towarzystwo Przyjaciół Nauk
• Journal: Lingua Posnaniensis
• Year: 2008
• Volume: 50
• Pages: 197-207

Contributors

author

Krzysztof T Witczak

• Department of Linguistics and Indo-European Studies Philological Faculty University of Łódź Lipowa 81 90-568 Łódź