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It is well-known, that in Upper Bal a radical -r -är causes the dissimilation
of a plural consonant -är < -äl (T. Sharadzenidze).
Analogous situation is in Lower Svan at every stem containing r: kor ‘a
house’ – pl. kor-al (Lashkh.), kor-äl (Lent.)... Apart from these cases, manifestation
of -äl suffix in Lentekhian is conditioned by the stem ending with l' – l’
assimilates -r of –är suffix: Caful ‘a foot-wear’, Cafl-äl ‘foot-wears’ (Lent); i. e.
dissimilation as well as assimilation of suffixial -är takes place in Lentekhian.
The nouns with -a, -e vowel endings in Lashkhian manifest –ēl plural
marker. In Lentekhian they lose the last vowel of a noun and add –ar/-al suffixes
without umlaut. In some sub-dialects, in such kinds of nouns in Lentekhian the
forms with umlauts are attested, e. g.: γäbena ‘a bullock’ – pl. γäben-ar/ -är;
lare ‘a hay meadow’, pl. lar-al/-äl.
The peculiarities of plural of the nouns ending with -i, -o, -u and –ai and
the plural forms with double-suffix in the dialects of Lower Svan will be discussed
in the paper; e. g. Zi… ‘necklace’ – Zi…-är, Zi…-ar
ar-äl ‘necklaces’ (Lent.); lanxub
‘brotherly’ – lanxub-ar-al ‘brotherlies’ (Lashkh.).
I. G a l u t s k i k h (Zaporozhie)
Historical Core Vocabulary Evolution After the Expansion of
English World-Wide
Core vocabulary is investigated within plenty of various paradigms. In
this study English core vocabulary is treated as the corpus of lexemes that are
marked by the highest degree of chronological stability in the course of
language evolution, i.e. have been part of English since Old English period. Our
previous research attested high functional, structural and evolutionary
significance of core vocabulary in the lexicon [Skybina & Galutskikh, 2007].
The results obtained stipulated further increase of attention to more detailed
investigation of other aspects of this layer of the English lexicon.
This research focuses on the study of core vocabulary evolution after the
expansion of English world-wide. It is hypothesized that all changes in the
lexicon that are its response to the altered extralinguistic reality and the work of
adaptive mechanisms are projected into its historical core. Thus the direction
and specificity of core vocabulary and entire lexicon evolution correlate both
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