The aim of this paper is to compare the superlexical prefixes of Russian and Bulgarian. The main focus is on delimitative and attenuative po- in derived PF forms as well as in secondary IPF verbs. Using the Russian-Bulgarian parallel corpus, I show that there is a functional parallelism between PF and IPF delimitatives in Russian and Bulgarian. The semantic similarity between delimitative and attenuative meaning is the basis for expressing special pragmatic functions by means of both PF and IPF poattenuatives in Bulgarian, while attenuative po-verbs in Russian express specific pragmatic meanings primarily via PF forms.
University of Bologna, Italy - ORCID: 0000-0001-5900-6616
Chapter Title
Супралексический префикс по- в русском и болгарском языках
Authors
Svetlana Slavkova
Language
Russian
DOI
10.36253/978-88-6453-698-9.14
Peer Reviewed
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
Peer Reviewed
Number of Pages
272
Publication Year
2017
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© 2017 Author(s)
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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