Some thoughts on the Slavic verbal system (a typological approach)
This paper deals with the essential verb categories - the grammatical categories of tense, aspect and mode, as well as with actionality as a lexical and functional category. These categories coexist in the Slavic languages in manifold correlations, determined by the type of language. The...
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Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Institute for the Serbian Language, Belgrade
2021
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| Online Access: | https://doaj.org/article/eba1d457b39e49a792f9f8418f1fa498 |
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| Summary: | This paper deals with the essential verb categories - the grammatical
categories of tense, aspect and mode, as well as with actionality as a
lexical and functional category. These categories coexist in the Slavic
languages in manifold correlations, determined by the type of language. The
paper is focused on tense as the central verb category. In the first part,
there is a typological approach to the Slavic verbal system proposed, as a
base for its systematic functional description and interpretation. Two
prototypes of the verbal system in Slavia can be postulated - a southern and
a northern one. The Slavic languages of the Balkan linguistic area
(Sprachbund) - Bulgarian and Macedonian - belong to the southern prototype,
while the East Slavic languages and Polish belong to the northern prototype.
The remaining Slavic languages represent various transitional phases from
one prototype to the other. The actual version of the model offered in this
paper is synchronically based, but the diachronic approach is considered
indispensable for an adequate modelling of the Slavic verbal system. In this
context, the paper presents some critical remarks on the modern Slavic
grammaticography, with key focus on its methodological and theoretical
basis. The last part of the paper presents some approaches to and
interpretations of the tense category in some selected recent works. |
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