Aspectuality and consecutio temporum in Polish and Dutch Cover Image

Aspektualność i consecutio temporum w języku niderlandzkim i polskim
Aspectuality and consecutio temporum in Polish and Dutch

Author(s): Agnieszka Flor-Górecka
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Foreign languages learning, Theoretical Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, Language acquisition, Comparative Linguistics
Published by: Towarzystwo Naukowe KUL & Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski Jana Pawła II
Keywords: aspect; aspectuality; consecutio temporum; tenses; sequence of tenses

Summary/Abstract: In Poland, Dutch is becoming gradually a popular foreign language. It belongs to the Germanic languages, which have a verbal system with tenses. Polish is a Slavonic language with an aspectual verb system. In Polish there are 3 grammatical tenses: present tense, future tense and past tense. Polish verbs can be used in a perfective and an imperfective aspect. In Dutch we have 8 tenses. Four of them are voltooid (perfect) describing the situation or action as completed and the other four are onvoltooid (imperfect), they describe the situation or action as continuous or progressive. As all Germanic languages, Dutch lost aspect as an obligatory grammatical category. The perfective and imperfective aspect of the verb depends on other parts of the sentence.

  • Issue Year: 64/2016
  • Issue No: 6
  • Page Range: 7-30
  • Page Count: 24
  • Language: Polish