The prehistory of kláusti, klausýti, and their related forms revisited
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Yoko Yamazaki
Stockholm University, Sweden
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0209-9599
Published 2022-12-30
https://doi.org/10.15388/LK.2022.4
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Keywords

Balto-Slavic historical morphology
Indo-European desideratives
iteratives
Baltic transitive ia-presents
Baltic intransitive inchoatives

How to Cite

Yamazaki, Y. (2022) “The prehistory of kláusti, klausýti, and their related forms revisited”, Lietuvių kalba, (17), pp. 49–60. doi:10.15388/LK.2022.4.

Abstract

The Baltic verbs, Lith. kláusti ‘to ask questions’, klausýti ‘to listen’, Latv. klàust ‘to ask questions’ and klàusît / klaũsît ‘to listen’ exhibit intriguing morphological and accentological distributions. For a long time, this has interested linguists as shown by numerous previous studies starting with Schulze (1904). Despite several proposals put forward so far, researchers have not yet agreed on a historical interpretation of the acute tone of Lith. kláusti, or on the historical relationship of kláusti to its cognates not only in Balto-Slavic but also in Indo-European languages. In this paper, all the relevant data and hypotheses available to the current author will be examined again, and a more probable historical interpretation will be sought.

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