Функции настоящего и имперфекта совершенного вида и перфекта несовершенного вида в молизско-славянском микроязыке (original) (raw)

Функции настоящего и имперфекта совершенного вида и перфекта несовершенного вида в молизско-славянском микроязыке

Walter Breu: e Functions of the Perfective Present/Imperfect and the Imperfective Perfect in the Molise Slavic Micro-Language is paper deals with the functions of Molise-Slavic verb forms expressing "contradictory" combinations of aspect grammemes: the perfective present, the perfective imperfect, and the imperfective perfect. Molise Slavic is a South Slavic minority language based historically on the Serbo-Croatian dialect continuum, which since the arrival of the ancestors of today's native speakers has been influenced to a large extent by the Romance varieties of the Southern Italian Region of Molise. In spite of its "total language contact" situation with all its speakers being bilingual, Molise Slavic has retained, in principal, its original Slavic aspect oppositions, both the inflectional one (imperfect : perfect) and the derivational one (imperfective : perfective), freely combining with each other. Nevertheless, a reorganization of the inflectional category has occurred, following the regional Romance model (in losing the aorist but not the imperfect), and nowadays there is a certain dominance of the inflectional opposition over the derivational one. e non-contradictory combinations of the imperfect (and the present) with the imperfective aspect, as well as the combination of the perfect with the perfective aspect, continue to express aspectual oppositions in non-iterative situations. In the following we will show that the contradictory combinations have not been lost either. In spite of the pressure coming from the unmarked, non-contradictory forms, they still have functions of their own, especially in the field of aspectual oppositions in iterative, habitual, or distributive situations, but also in some other fields.