Open AccessOd comitativu do spójnika. O pochodzeniu słowiańskiego spójnika i oraz litewskiego ir ‘i; też’
Author(s) -
Norbert Ostrowski
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
lingvaria
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2392-1226
pISSN - 1896-2122
DOI - 10.12797/lv.12.2017.24.10
Subject(s) - slavic languages , latvian , conjunction (astronomy) , lithuanian , character (mathematics) , linguistics , history , physics , philosophy , mathematics , astronomy , geometry
From Comitative to Conjunction. On the Origin of the Slavic Conjunction i and Lithuanian ir ‘and; also’The paper aims to describe the origin of the Slavic conjunction i ‘and’ and its Baltic counterpart ir ‘and; also’ (Old Prussian ir ‘also’, Lithuanian ‘and; also’, Latvian ‘and; also; even’). Common Baltic ir traces back to the former *ī-r that stems from the conflation of demonstrative pronoun (instr. sg.) *h₁i-h₁ and locative postposition -r. On the basis of Baltic data we can establish the primary character of Slavic i ‘and’ which illustrates the functional change from comitative to coordinative conjunction.