| Abstract [eng] |
In an earlier paper (Pakerys 2007), I presented a number of Lithuanian secondary verbal formations which are based on sta-presents, cf.: vargst-áuti ‘to live in trouble, to have difficulties’, rūkst-ėti ‘to emit smoke’, linkst-úoti ‘to bend (intr.)’ beside va-g-st-a ‘lives in poverty, takes trouble’, r-k-st-a ‘emits smoke’, liñk-st-a ‘bends (intr.)’, etc. I suggested that these formations could support the hypothesis which claims that the Lithuanian and Latvian iterative suffix -stī- arose due to the reanalysis of formations in -ī-t(i) originally based on present stems in -sta (cf. competing denominative hypothesis which similarly proposes the reanalysis of formations in -ī-t(i) which were originally based on nominal stems in -st-). In this paper, I tried to answer the question if secondary verbs based on sta-presents are an exclusively Lithuanian phenomenon, or if they can be also found in Latvian. The data presented here were excerpted from the electronic edition of “Latviešu valodas vārdnīca” by Mülenbachs and Endzelīns (http://www.ailab.lv/MEV, accessed on 2007—2009) by searching for the verbs ending in -stāt(ies), -stēt(ies), -stīt(ies), -stināt(ies), and -stuot(ies). The main findings can be summarized as follows. |
