THE OVERT PATTERNS OF EXPRESSING THE MEANING OF DEFINITENESS OF THE GOTHIC ABSTRACT NOUNS

Novitskaya Irina Vladimirovna

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The article presents an analysis of the overt means used to mark the meaning of definiteness of the gothic abstact nouns. There are two types of definiteness: individualizing and anaphoric ones. Each of them has its own means of expression. It also presents the gothic stem-building suffix -ein- as an original marker of the individualizing type of definiteness.

Keywords: gothic abstract nouns, definiteness, definite article, stem-building suffix

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Issue: 7, 2010

Series of issue: Issue 7

Rubric: Topical Problems of Germanic Philology

Pages: 32 — 38

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