https://doi.org/10.31261/pr.15548
The paper is devoted to yet unstudied driving force behind development of verbal aspect in Old Russian. It consisted in crucial asymmetry between two classes of prefixal verbs: those with a lexical prefix (i.e. prefix considerably changing the meaning of the stem) and those with a semantically bleached one. As far as, on the one hand, these kinds of verbs were all in all of the same formal complexity, and, by iconicity principle, could be expected to display similar functional behavior, but, on the other hand, the result implied by verbs with lexical prefix was less natural, and hence less integral, as it were more “fragile” was the relevant “scenario”, Old Russian could be expected to undertake various measures towards mitigating the disparity, and one of such measures was the spread of so-called secondary (proto)imperfectives.
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No. 2 (186) (2024)
Published: 2024-04-22
10.31261/pr
Język Polski
Русский
English