Irregular Aorist and Imperfect Forms in Older Upper Sorbian and Upper Sorbian Aspect

0396106 - SLÚ 2014 RO eng J - Článek v odborném periodiku
Brankatschk, Katja
Irregular Aorist and Imperfect Forms in Older Upper Sorbian and Upper Sorbian Aspect.
Romano-Bohemica. Journal for Central European Studies. Roč. 2, č. 2 (2013), s. 35-52. ISSN 2284-7014.
[Verbal Aspect in the Slavic Languages. Bucharest, 04.10.2012-07.10.2012]
Grant CEP: GA ČR(CZ) GPP406/11/P424
Institucionální podpora: RVO:68378017
Klíčová slova: Upper Sorbian * Aorist * Imperfect * Verbal Aspect * Language contact * Purism
Kód oboru RIV: AI - Jazykověda

In this study the irregular simple past forms in Older Upper Sorbian are analysed according to their word formation structure and aspectuality. On the one hand, a high degree of regularity in the formation of simple past is found, as most imperfect forms are derived from ipf. verbs and most aorist forms from pf. verbs. On the other hand, there is a number of exceptions from this rule, which can give an insight into verbal aspect in Older Upper Sorbian: calques from German seem to be anaspectual in many cases and some indiginous Sorbian verbs are used anaspectually in a special meaning borrowed from a certain German equivalent. There are also cases, where the aspectual system of Older Sorbian simply differs from the one in the modern language, as the lack of prefixed partners to kradnyć and the perfective usage of this simplex show.
Trvalý link: http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0224013