The Kashubian indefinite marker jeden ‘one’ and its grammaticalisation
This article analyses the use of the indefinite marker jeden ‘one’ in contemporary Kashubian, which has often been treated simply as an indefinite article in previous studies. A synchronic description has been presented in the first part of this paper, comparing the use of the indefinite ma...
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Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Institute for the Serbian Language, Belgrade
2021
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| Online Access: | https://doaj.org/article/c5e7c82f1fe44d97b4fd89bcf1e83524 |
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| Summary: | This article analyses the use of the indefinite marker jeden ‘one’ in
contemporary Kashubian, which has often been treated simply as an indefinite
article in previous studies. A synchronic description has been presented in
the first part of this paper, comparing the use of the indefinite marker in
Kashubian with that in Polish, Upper Sorbian and German. The second part
deals with the diachronic change in Kashubian in this respect. The main
conclusion of this paper is that Kashubian has never developed the indefinite
article per se, while its usage was far more frequent in the past, which
could be explained by the emergence of the German influence. |
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