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

0396106 - SLÚ 2014 RO eng J - Journal Article
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]
R&D Projects: GA ČR(CZ) GPP406/11/P424
Institutional support: RVO:68378017
Keywords : Upper Sorbian * Aorist * Imperfect * Verbal Aspect * Language contact * Purism
Subject RIV: AI - Linguistics

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.
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