Distributive Verbs in Serbian and Croatian

Dickey, Stephen M.

dc.contributor.author	Dickey, Stephen M.
dc.date.accessioned	2009-09-04T13:41:07Z
dc.date.available	2009-09-04T13:41:07Z
dc.date.issued	2003
dc.identifier.citation	Indiana Slavic Studies 12, 2001: 103-115
dc.identifier.issn	0073-6929
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/1808/5472
dc.description.abstract	This article examines the semantic nature of distributive verbs formed with the prefix po- in Serbian and Croatian. The default interpretation of such distributive verbs, that an event sequentially affects one object (or subject) after another, can in fact be cancelled, i.e., a simultaneous interpretation is possible. The default interpretation of sequential sub-events is analyzed according to the theory of Cognitive Grammar, and is explained as the result of the processing time involved in scanning the individual events being interpreted as conceived time in the default case.
dc.language.iso	en_US
dc.publisher	Slavica Publishers
dc.subject	Slavic languages
dc.subject	Serbian
dc.subject	Croatian
dc.subject	Distributive verbs
dc.subject	Cognitive Grammar
dc.subject	Prefixation
dc.title	Distributive Verbs in Serbian and Croatian
dc.type	Article
dc.rights.accessrights	openAccess

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