"Semelfactive" -nǫ- and the Western Aspect Gestalt

Dickey, Stephen M.

dc.contributor.author	Dickey, Stephen M.
dc.date.accessioned	2009-09-04T00:02:44Z
dc.date.available	2009-09-04T00:02:44Z
dc.date.issued	2001
dc.identifier.citation	Journal of Slavic Linguistics 9(1), 2001: 25-48
dc.identifier.issn	1068-2090
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/1808/5470
dc.description.abstract	This article presents a discussion of differences between the Slavic languages regarding the historical productivity of -nǫ- as an aspectual suffix. It is shown that a class of prefixed pf a-stem/n-stem doublets has been more productive in a group of western languages (primarily Czech, Slovak, Upper Sorbian) and that this productivity declines in the languages farther to the east, reaching a minimum in Russian and Bulgarian. Further, differences are shown regarding the function of -nǫ- as a perfectivizing suffix in some Common Slavic unprefixed pf verbs. These differences are then discussed, with no claims to an exhaustive analysis.
dc.language.iso	en_US
dc.publisher	Slavica Publishers
dc.subject	Slavic languages
dc.subject	Semelfactive verbs
dc.subject	suffixation
dc.subject	Slavic verbal aspect
dc.title	"Semelfactive" -nǫ- and the Western Aspect Gestalt
dc.type	Article
dc.rights.accessrights	openAccess

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