This article deals with some specific characteristics of the Italo-Albanian (Arbëresh) verbal system, including the “presumptive” and “unfinished” past, but focuses especially on the expression of Aktionsart with the help of periphrases variously present, if not only marginally, in Balkan Albanian and already attested in the first Arbëresh grammars of the 19th century. The distribution of the periphrastic constructions with progressive and imminentive functions in a series of Italo-Albanian dialects is analysed on the basis of an initial overview of durative periphrases presented in Savoia (1991), but enriched by further research and integrated into a broader typological overview. The author hypothesises that the periphrases in question are not so much the result of linguistic contact with actual Italo-Romance varieties, but rather go back to the Balkan context of possibly Proto-Romance origin.
University of Calabria, Italy - ORCID: 0000-0003-3921-7648
Chapter Title
Progressivo e imminentivo nel sistema verbale dell’albanese d’Italia
Authors
Francesco Altimari
Language
Italian
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0184-1.14
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Publication Year
2023
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Book Title
L’aspettualità nel contatto linguistico: lingue slave e oltre
Book Subtitle
Resistenza, ristrutturazione ed innovazione dell’aspetto verbale e della sua periferia sotto l’influsso di varietà alloglotte. Atti del 3º Convegno Internazionale Costanza/Hegne, 16-20 giugno 2019
Editors
Walter Breu, Malinka Pila
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Number of Pages
346
Publication Year
2023
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© 2023 Author(s)
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Publisher Name
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0184-1
ISBN Print
979-12-215-0183-4
eISBN (pdf)
979-12-215-0184-1
eISBN (xml)
979-12-215-0185-8
Series Title
Biblioteca di Studi Slavistici
Series ISSN
2612-7687
Series E-ISSN
2612-7679