TEMPORALITY AND ASPECTUALITY OF ENGLISH PAST PERFECT AND ITS SERBIAN TRANSLATION EQUIVALENTS Cover Image

ТЕМПОРАЛНОСТ И АСПЕКТУАЛНОСТ ЕНГЛЕСКОГ ПРОШЛОГ ПЕРФЕКТА И ЊЕГОВИХ СРПСКИХ ПРЕВОДНИХ ЕКВИВАЛЕНАТА
TEMPORALITY AND ASPECTUALITY OF ENGLISH PAST PERFECT AND ITS SERBIAN TRANSLATION EQUIVALENTS

Author(s): Anica V. Glođović
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Foreign languages learning, Theoretical Linguistics, Comparative Linguistics
Published by: Универзитет у Крагујевцу
Keywords: Past Perfect Tense;Serbian translation equivalents;verb tense;verbal aspect;contrastive linguistics

Summary/Abstract: This paper applies contemporary interpretations of tenses and aspects in English and Serbian in order to define temporal and aspectual relations between English Past Perfect Tense and its Serbian verbal translation equivalents. Since finite verbal forms in English are characterized by the combination of temporal and aspectual distinctions, these features were analysed (quantitatively and qualitatively) on the Past Perfect Tense corpus excerpted from а modern British novel. Subsequently, their Serbian translation equivalents were identified and statistically processed in order to contribute the further interpretations of tense and aspectual relations within the verbal systems of these two languages.

  • Issue Year: XIX/2018
  • Issue No: 66
  • Page Range: 157-171
  • Page Count: 15
  • Language: Serbian