XIX amžiaus raštų rytų aukštaičių patarme prieveiksmio ypatybės

Abstract

The present article addresses the peculiarities of the adverb in the nineteenth-century texts written in the Eastern Aukštaitian sub-dialect. The material under analysis is provided from translated and original religious works of eight nineteenth-century authors (Mykolas Cerauskas, Laurynas Bortkevičius, Mykolas Smolskis, Tadas Lichodzejauskas, Andrius Benediktas Klungys, Antanas KitkeviËius, Henrikas Balevičius, and Kazimieras Michnevičius-Mikėnas). It reviews four conditional groups of adverbs: 1) adverbs that differ from contemporary adverbs only by their spelling; 2) dialectal adverbs; 3) archaic adverbs; 4) borrowed adverbs. The article discusses older and dialectal comparative and superlative degreeforms of adverbs.