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Aspectual competition and iterative contexts in contemporary Upper Sorbian
Toops, Gary H.
Toops, Gary H.
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2001
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Upper Sorbian language --Verb
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Toops, Gary H. 2001. Aspectual competition and iterative contexts in contemporary Upper Sorbian. Journal of Slavic Lingustics, 9(1), p.127-154.
Abstract
In Upper Sorbian, as in the other contemporary West Slavic languages, iterative/
habitual actions (acts or events) can be expressed by both imperfective and perfective
verbs. Aspectual competition in iterative contexts is therefore complete. Based on the
results of a questionnaire that incorporated a variety of iterative contexts and that was
administered to native speakers of Upper Sorbian in July-August 2000, the article demonstrates
that a number of lexical, stylistic, and morphosemantic factors condition aspect
selection by today's native speakers of Upper Sorbian. This is shown to hold true across
generational lines, whether today's speakers of Upper Sorbian instantiate verbal aspect as
a strict imperfective-perfective opposition; or whether-in the case of prefixed verbs and
their stem-suffixed (formerly imperfective) counterparts-they instantiate a quasi-aspectual
indeterminate-determinate opposition. The article thus counters claims made by
some Slavists that verbal aspect in contemporary Upper Sorbian is obsolete, functionally
restricted, or subordinate to other grammatical categories such as tense.
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Slavica Publishers
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Journal of Slavic Linguistics;v.9, no.1
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1543-0391