The aim of the present article is to investigate the aspectual status of the Russian verbs prodolzhat’ and prodolzhit’. It is shown that the form prodolzhal is very frequently used in the past tense as a perfective verb with inchoative value in sequences of single events. Furthermore, the diachronic analysis of the examples reveals that, in the past tense, the form prodolzhit’ until the 1990s was much less commonly used than the form prodolzhat’. Taking into account these results, in the article is hypothesized that the form prodolzhat’ in the past tense may be considered a biaspectual verb.
University of Bergamo, Italy - ORCID: 0000-0001-6131-0449
Chapter Title
Prodolžat’/prodolžit’: una strana coppia
Authors
Nika Zoričić
Language
Italian
DOI
10.36253/978-88-6453-328-5.18
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Publication Year
2016
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Book Title
Le lingue slave tra struttura e uso
Editors
Valentina Benigni, Lucyna Gebert, Julija Nikolaeva
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Number of Pages
346
Publication Year
2016
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© 2016 Author(s)
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Publisher Name
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/978-88-6453-328-5
ISBN Print
978-88-6453-327-8
eISBN (pdf)
978-88-6453-328-5
eISBN (xml)
978-88-9273-230-8
Series Title
Biblioteca di Studi Slavistici
Series ISSN
2612-7687
Series E-ISSN
2612-7679