Affiliation:
1. University of Mainz Johannes Gutenberg, DE
Abstract
In the stem-derivational perfective-imperfective opposition of Slavic the role of prefixes and suffixes has to be assessed jointly. The article evaluates the diachronic backdrop and parameters appropriate for classificatory categories. Special attention is paid to the criteria applied by aspectologists to determine aspect pairs and to aspect triplets. The assessment ends up with a paradox resulting from Maslov’s criteria of ‘trivial pairednessʼ, which require not only identical lexical meaning, but an ontology for which telic events are the sole basis in the derivation of aspect pairs.
Reference53 articles.
1. Andersen, H. 2009. “On the origin of the Slavic aspects: Questions of chronology”, in Grammatical change in Indo-European languages (Papers presented at the workshop on Indo-European linguistics at the XVIIIth International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Montreal, 2007). V. Bubenik, J. Hewson, S. Rose (eds.). Amsterdam-Philadelphia: 123-140.
2. Arkadiev, P. 2014. “Towards an Areal Typology of Prefixal Perfectivation”. Scando-Slavica, 60.2: 384-405.
3. Aвилова, Н.С. 1964. “Изменения в системе глагола: Развитие видовых соотношений глагола. Развитие приставочного глагольного словообразования”, in Глагол, наречие, предлоги и союзы в русском литературном языке XIX века. В.В. Виноградов, Н.Ю. Шведова (ред.). Москва: 7-104.
4. Benacchio, R. 2010. Вид и категория вежливости в славянском императиве. Сравнительный анализ. München.
5. Bermel, N. 1997. Context and the Lexicon in the Development of Russian Aspect. Berkeley.