Verbal separable adverbs-prefixes in Slavic, Germanic and Finno-Ugric as an object of contact grammar Cover Image
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Глагольные отделяемые наречия-приставки в славянском, германском и финно-угорском как объект контактной грамматики
Verbal separable adverbs-prefixes in Slavic, Germanic and Finno-Ugric as an object of contact grammar

Author(s): Aleksandr D. Duličenko
Subject(s): Theoretical Linguistics, Phonetics / Phonology, Syntax, Comparative Linguistics, Finno-Ugrian studies, South Slavic Languages
Published by: Akadémiai Kiadó
Keywords: Contact grammar; Slavic-German-Fenno-Ugric language relations; verbal substractive adverbial particles (prefixes); area of distribution; Burgenland-Croatian language (dialect); inventory of the verbs;

Summary/Abstract: The object of the study of contact grammar is those changes of linguistic elements that are influenced by the contact language. The clear example which belongs to the field of the Slavic-German-Hungarian contact grammar is the separable, adverbial by origin, prefixes of verbs. In some Slavic languages and dialects, this unusual phenomenon appeared during the lasting contacts with German. As seems, in Hungarian the development of the same phenomenon was also caused by German, and in turn it influenced neighboring Slavic dialects. In the present article, the author have studied the separable verbal prefixes of the Gradiščan dialect of Croatian, have indicated their German and Hungarian equivalents and have compiled the list of the verbs with the prefixes of this sort. The analysis resulted in the conclusion that the given adverbs not only specify the meaning of the verbs but also dominate in the coining of new words and affect syntax. The research into this most interesting problem, initiated by the prominent Hungarian scholar Laszlo Hadrovics on the basis of South Slavic material, requires the more detailed examination of the Slavic linguistic area and its history.

  • Issue Year: 50/2005
  • Issue No: 1-2
  • Page Range: 15-28
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: Russian