SOME THOUGHTS ON THE SLAVIC VERBAL SYSTEM (A TYPOLOGICAL APPROACH) Cover Image

Нека размишљања о словенском глаголу (типолошки приступ)
SOME THOUGHTS ON THE SLAVIC VERBAL SYSTEM (A TYPOLOGICAL APPROACH)

Author(s): Anna Kretschmer
Subject(s): Morphology, Western Slavic Languages, Eastern Slavic Languages, South Slavic Languages
Published by: Институт за српски језик Српске академије наука и уметности
Keywords: Slavic Tense – Aspect – Mode – Actionality; Typological Approach; Methodology

Summary/Abstract: 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 fi rst 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.

  • Issue Year: 77/2021
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 75-96
  • Page Count: 22
  • Language: Serbian