The article deals with morphological features of the Eastern Lithuanian (Utena) dialect of the Lithuanian language. There is a tendency for the merger of the feminine stems: ēand i̯ā, ē and ā, ā and a, ē and (i̯)a. The analysis shows that the merger of stems is influenced by the phonetic development of the dialect, semantic fields and the neutralization of the collective plural.
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