Verb Aspect and Aspect Formation in the Dialect of the Village of Rechane, Prizren Cover Image

Вид на глагола и видообразуване в говора на с. Речане, Призренско
Verb Aspect and Aspect Formation in the Dialect of the Village of Rechane, Prizren

Author(s): Iliyana Garavalova
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Theoretical Linguistics, Phonetics / Phonology, Morphology, Philology
Published by: Софийски университет »Св. Климент Охридски«
Keywords: verb aspect; aspect formation; perfectification; imperfectification; Rechan dialect; dialectology

Summary/Abstract: he main aim of the article is, based on material personally collected by the author during the conduct of undergraduate courses in Bulgarian language, literature, history and culture for the Bulgarian minority in the Sredska Župa district, Republic of Kosovo in the period 2015–2019, to present the way of organizing and functioning of the grammatical category ‘verbal aspect’ in the dialect of the Village of Rechene, Prizren Region, which arouses interest with the variety of specificities registered in the processes of imperfection and perfectification. Although the language of the Župci is characterized by the presence of all the diagnostic features of the Bulgarian language, due to its “mixed” nature (a definition traditionally given to dialects located outside our state borders due to their influence, to a greater or lesser extent, by the official language of the state within whose borders they are located), the population of the region is still defined as Serbian, Macedonian or even Bosniak. Therefore, it is of particular importance to prove its belonging to the Bulgarian linguistic continuum by studying the Rechan dialect from a synchronic point of view at all linguistic levels and thus to determine the location of the western border of our linguistic territory.

  • Issue Year: 2026
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 43-59
  • Page Count: 17
  • Language: Bulgarian
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