I survey cases of contact-induced influence of Slavic and Baltic systems of prefixal perfectivization on Yiddish, Romani, Livonian and Istroromanian. I show that, although both matter and pattern borrowing of entire systems of Slavic or Baltic verbal prefixes is attested, grammatical aspectual categories similar to those of the donor languages do not arise in the contact languages, or develop in a way distinct from the donor languages (as in Istroromanian). This indicates that abstract grammatical oppositions such as “Slavic-style” aspect are immune to direct transfer in language contact.
Russian Academy of Sciences, Russian Federation - ORCID: 0000-0002-4503-2634
Chapter Title
Borrowed preverbs and the limits of contact-induced change in aspectual systems
Authors
Peter Arkadiev
Language
English
DOI
10.36253/978-88-6453-698-9.03
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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
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