Copy of The History of Lithuanian language

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The Lithuanian

Language

The International Conference

"The History of European Languages "

Jonas Jablonskis

Jonas Jablonskis was born on the 30th of December, 1860. In 1881 he entered the University of Moscow to study ancient languages Greek and Latin. In 1922 he became a professor at the University of Kaunas. Jablonskis published his first major article in The Bell ( Varpas) in 1890. From that time on there appeared almost every year article devoted to questions of Lithuanian grammar, lexicon and orthography. In the establishment of a standard language and the normalization of Lithuanian the textbooks of Jablonskis played a major role.

Jablonskis corrected the first variant the grammar.

The grammar was small, having only 64 notebook

size pages and did not have a great significance

for the normalization of Lithuanian.

Lithuanian has a free, mobile stress, and is also characterized by pitch accent. The Lithuanian verbal morphology shows a number of innovations. Namely, the loss of synthetic passive( which is hypothesized based on the more archaic though long-extinct Indo-European languages) , synthetic perfect( formed via the means of reduplication) and aorist; forming subjunctive and imperative with the use of suffixes plus flexions as opposed to solely flections in, e. g., Ancient Greek. Lithuanian verbal morphology retains a number of archaic features absent from most modern Indo-European languages.

There are twelve noun, five adjective , and one (masculine and feminine) participle declensions. Nouns and other parts of nominal morphology are declined in seven cases: nominative, genitive, dative, accusative, instrumental, locative and vocative. In older Lithuanian texts three additional varienties of the locative case are found: illative, adessive,and allative. The most common are the illative, which still is used, mostly in spoken language, and the allitive, which survives in the stander language in some idiomatic usages. The adessive is nearly extinct.

Jonas Jablonskis

• 1503-1525 dates the earliest written Lithuanian text.
• In 1864 the Lithuanian language was banned.
• There were book smugglers bringing books published abroad.

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No grammar ever played a greater role in the establishment of Lithuanian grammatical terminology. Almost all of the terminology used by Jablonskis has been adopted in the large Lithuanian Academy Grammar. Many previously unknown words have come down to us from Jablonskis.So we can tell that Jonas Jablonskis was the father of the Lithuanian language.

The Lithuanian language is a highly inflected language in which the relationships between parts of speech and their roles in a sentence are expressed by numerous inflections. In Lithuanian, there are two grammatical genders for nouns- feminine and masculine, and there are three ganders for adjectives, pronouns, numerals and participles: feminine, masculine and neuter. Every attribute has to follow the gender and the number of noun.

Grammar

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