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Chapter Borrowed preverbs and the limits of contact-induced change in aspectual systems
(2017)
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 ...
Chapter The Role of Prefixation in Old Church Slavonic
(2017)
In this paper, I analyse the role of prefixation in the Old Church Slavonic (OCS) verbal aspect system. For my analysis, I first need to establish how the aspect of OCS verbs can be determined. To that end, I use a combination ...
Chapter Prefixation in the Rise of Slavic Aspect
(2017)
This paper investigates the role that prefixes played in the development of the Slavic aspect category utilizing concepts from dynamic systems theory. It is argued that the bleaching of the prefix u- was crucial in the ...
Chapter “Intensive” verbal prefixes in Archaic Latin
(2017)
The goal of this paper is to give a brief outline of the synchronic conditions which trigger the emergence of aspectual values in Latin verbal prefixes. In particular, I will show that such a possibility is not the result ...
Chapter Cross-linguistic considerations on preverb stacking (with special reference to Bulgarian)
(2017)
The term preverb stacking (PS) designates the co-occurrence on one verbal base of two or more prefixes bearing spatial, aspectual, or quantificational meanings. The phenomenon is especially productive in Slavic but is also ...