The article provides a survey of aspect-tense (AT) grams in (North) Slavic and Baltic, with some account of Finnic. More recently developed grams (bound morphology and constructions) are evaluated against a deeper diachronic and larger areal backdrop in order to assess the significance of contact as a factor contributing to convergence of Slavic and Baltic varieties in the AT domain. In fact, the amount of actually converging features related to grammatical oppositions in this area is quite small; these are: (i) Prominent parallels in the strict subject- vs. object-oriented division of perfects in Slavic (mainly Belarusian) rural varieties, which must have been supported by an ancient and very stable Baltic model. (ii) Suffixation patterns of stem derivation in Aukštaitian Lithuanian resembling Slavic secondary imperfectivisation. The reasons for a generally low level of mutual influence between Baltic and Slavic are subjected to some methodological discussion.
University of Mainz Johannes Gutenberg, Germany - ORCID: 0000-0001-6466-2060
Chapter Title
Zu slavisch-baltischen Konvergenzen (und ihr Fehlen) im Aspekt-Tempus-Bereich
Authors
Björn Wiemer
Language
German
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0184-1.12
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Publication Year
2023
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Book Title
L’aspettualità nel contatto linguistico: lingue slave e oltre
Book Subtitle
Resistenza, ristrutturazione ed innovazione dell’aspetto verbale e della sua periferia sotto l’influsso di varietà alloglotte. Atti del 3º Convegno Internazionale Costanza/Hegne, 16-20 giugno 2019
Editors
Walter Breu, Malinka Pila
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Number of Pages
346
Publication Year
2023
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Publisher Name
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0184-1
ISBN Print
979-12-215-0183-4
eISBN (pdf)
979-12-215-0184-1
eISBN (xml)
979-12-215-0185-8
Series Title
Biblioteca di Studi Slavistici
Series ISSN
2612-7687
Series E-ISSN
2612-7679