In addition to permissive constructions with duoti and leisti, this paper also discusses rare cases of the archaic verb (pa-)velti and the borrowed Slavic permissives pa-velyti and pa-/pri-zvalyti. The permittees in duoti and leisti constructions are usually marked as dative, although the accusative is also attested due to the influence of German lassen + ACC constructions however, in the case of leisti, the accusative may sometimes be interpreted as archaic, marking the direct object of the source construction leisti 'release' + ACC. Due to the influence of bifunctional German lassen constructions, duoti is used not only in permissive constructions, but also in factitive constructions, especially in Prussian Lithuanian. ![]() In contrast to modern use, permissive constructions with duoti play a central role in many texts, while those with leisti are only more frequent in some sources and appear to have spread from the east to the west. ![]() This study analyzes periphrastic permissive and factitive causative constructions in a corpus of 16 th and 17 th century Old Lithuanian texts.
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