Aspecte ale „aspectului” istroromân în context romanic şi slav
Some Aspects of Istroromanian "Aspect" in Romance and Slavic Context

Summary/Abstract: The descriptions of Istroromanian usually do not distinguish between verbal aspect and prefixed verbs, due to the same morphological mechanism used in both phenomena – i.e. prefixation. However, we have to do with the actual verbal aspect only if a prefixed verb has the same meaning as its basic verb and if the only difference between them consists in the perception of verb action. Such a prefixed verb represents the perfective counterpart of a basic verb. If a basic verb is perfective itself, its imperfective counterpart is formed by infixation. Other prefixed verbs, which have a modified or different meaning than their basic verb, represent separate lexemes, with a perfective meaning, and form their imperfective counterparts by infixation. Both phenomena are present in Istroromanian as a result of Slavic (Croatian and partially Slovene) influence. They are specific not only to Slavic borrowings, but also to native verbs of Latin origin.

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