The paper is concerned with the history of the Russian verb past’ ‘fall’, which until the mid-19th century used to have biaspectual present forms. The analysis deals both with the historical motivation for this biaspectual behaviour and the factors behind its loss. The most important stage of the process seems to be the gradual disappearance of the primary spatial usages of past’: these came to be expressed by a newly created aspectual pair, padat’/upast’. The latter is close to the so-called two-stem perfectivation verbs, which I examined in more detail in my previous work.
Russian Academy of Sciences, Russian Federation - ORCID: 0000-0002-2393-1399
Chapter Title
К списку двувидовых глаголов в русском языке: история пасть
Authors
Vladimir A. Plungjan
Language
Russian
DOI
10.36253/978-88-6453-698-9.12
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Publication Year
2017
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Book Title
The role of prefixes in the formation of aspectuality
Book Subtitle
Issues of grammaticalization
Editors
Rosanna Benacchio, Alessio Muro, Svetlana Slavkova
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Number of Pages
272
Publication Year
2017
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Publisher Name
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/978-88-6453-698-9
ISBN Print
978-88-6453-697-2
eISBN (pdf)
978-88-6453-698-9
eISBN (xml)
978-88-9273-128-8
Series Title
Biblioteca di Studi Slavistici
Series ISSN
2612-7687
Series E-ISSN
2612-7679