Rytą or ryte? Vakarą or vakare? A corpus analysis of Lithuanian time expressions denoting parts of the day

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14210%2F23%3A00133526" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14210/23:00133526 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="https://www.journals.vu.lt/kalbotyra/article/view/33111/32743" target="_blank" >https://www.journals.vu.lt/kalbotyra/article/view/33111/32743</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.15388/Kalbotyra.2023.76.5" target="_blank" >10.15388/Kalbotyra.2023.76.5</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Rytą or ryte? Vakarą or vakare? A corpus analysis of Lithuanian time expressions denoting parts of the day

Original language description

This paper aims to reveal differences between the competing accusative and locative forms of Lithuanian temporal expressions denoting parts of the day (rytas ‘morning’, diena ‘day’, vakaras ‘evening’, naktis ‘night’). Since the accusative of time expresses a wider semantic spectrum, it was first necessary, using a prototypical ap-proach, to define exactly what the morphosyntactic and semantic characteristics of the competing pairs are (i.e., prototypical verbal modifiers expressing location of an action/state in time). Then, analysing the DLKT corpus data confirmed that the competition be-tween the accusative and locative forms is present using the word vakaras ‘evening’ and rytas ‘morning’. This study reveals that the choice of case depends on the interaction of the given word with the (non)presence of an attribute and on the concrete type of attrib-ute as well. It was confirmed that the accusatives of all the studied words predominate over the locatives, but the strength of the dominance varies. This may be caused by the different degree of adverbialization of the locative forms and by the different semantic implications embodied in the lexemes themselves, which is related to how successfully the locative resists the expansion of the accusative.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_ost - Miscellaneous article in a specialist periodical

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60202 - Specific languages

Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2023

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Kalbotyra

ISSN

1392-1517

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

2023

Issue of the periodical within the volume

76

Country of publishing house

LT - LITHUANIA

Number of pages

24

Pages from-to

66-89

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

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