Amongst Slavic languages, only Bulgarian (and Macedonian) has retained the imperfect, a synthetic past tense inherited from Protoslavic. Apart from its temporal meanings, the Bulgarian imperfect occurs in a variety of modal meanings, which, generally speaking, imply a modification in the epistemic validity of the utterance. The modal meaning za propomnjane ‘for reminding’ of the Bulgarian imperfective imperfect is used to ask for previously given but at present forgotten information. Based on previous research work on the subject, the paper aims to investigate whether and to what extent such a meaning can be expressed by verbal morphology in the Slavic languages that have lost the imperfect tense. The languages considered in the paper are: Bulgarian, Serbian (Croatian), Czech, Polish and Russian.
Sapienza University of Rome, Italy - ORCID: 0000-0001-7107-5657
Titolo del capitolo
The modal meaning za pripomnjane of the Bulgarian imperfect tense and its counterparts in other Slavic languages
Autori
Andrea Trovesi
Lingua
English
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0216-9.16
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Anno di pubblicazione
2023
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© 2023 Author(s)
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Titolo del libro
Studi contrastivi di linguistica slava: grammatica e pragmatica
Curatori
Rosanna Benacchio, Lucyna Gebert
Autori
Andrea Trovesi
Opera sottoposta a peer review
Numero di pagine
204
Anno di pubblicazione
2023
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© 2023 Author(s)
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Licenza dei metadati
Editore
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0216-9
ISBN Print
979-12-215-0215-2
eISBN (pdf)
979-12-215-0216-9
Collana
Biblioteca di Studi Slavistici
ISSN della collana
2612-7687
e-ISSN della collana
2612-7679