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
Titolo del capitolo
Borrowed preverbs and the limits of contact-induced change in aspectual systems
Autori
Peter Arkadiev
Lingua
English
DOI
10.36253/978-88-6453-698-9.03
Opera sottoposta a peer review
Anno di pubblicazione
2017
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© 2017 Author(s)
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Titolo del libro
The role of prefixes in the formation of aspectuality
Sottotitolo del libro
Issues of grammaticalization
Curatori
Rosanna Benacchio, Alessio Muro, Svetlana Slavkova
Opera sottoposta a peer review
Numero di pagine
272
Anno di pubblicazione
2017
Copyright
© 2017 Author(s)
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Licenza dei metadati
Editore
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
Collana
Biblioteca di Studi Slavistici
ISSN della collana
2612-7687
e-ISSN della collana
2612-7679