Abstract [eng] |
On the basis of the data from Latvian old texts, the article proves that in the 16th-17th centuries there existed two locative singular forms in the Latvian language: the old inessive in -a, -e, -i, -u and the illative in -an, -en, -in, -un whose meanings were neutralized. The forms in question belonged to the same declension system. To assume that there were two declension systems, one with the generalized inessive... |