The Balkan Conditional in South Slavic

This study examines the morphological and semantic development of the modal construction formed with either the imperfect of to want (Croatian/Serbian) plus the infinitive, or with a modal particle from to want (Macedonian) plus the imperfect of the main verb. The Balkan conditional is analyzed usin...

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Belyavski-Frank, Masha
Format:
Elektronisch E-Book
Veröffentlicht:
Peter Lang International Academic Publishing Group 2003
Zusammenfassung:
This study examines the morphological and semantic development of the modal construction formed with either the imperfect of to want (Croatian/Serbian) plus the infinitive, or with a modal particle from to want (Macedonian) plus the imperfect of the main verb. The Balkan conditional is analyzed using material from diverse sources, including epic folk poetry, dialectal texts, and the standard literary language in the South Slavic languages, as well as in the Balkan non-Slavic languages of Greek, Albanian, Daco-Rumanian, Istro-Rumanian, and Arumanian. Specific syntactic and semantic contexts are analyzed, and the Balkan conditional is compared to other modal constructions in these languages. One of the characteristic analytic verbal forms shared by the languages of the Balkan league is the Balkan conditional or the so-called future-in-the-past. In the majority of these languages, the Balkan conditional has the status of a grammatical category, whose invariant components are modality, specifically potentiality, and reference to past tense. With such components, these expressions most frequently and naturally refer to actions which did not take place, i.e., the past, contrary-to-fact conditional
Umfang:
1 electronic resource (320 p.)
Anmerkungen:
German
ISBN:
9783876908519
Zugangseinschränkungen:
Open Access
Schlagworte:
Philology. Linguistics
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