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Borrowed preverbs and the limits of contact-induced change in aspectual systems

  • Peter Arkadiev

I survey cases of contact-induced influence of Slavic and Baltic systems of prefixal perfectivization on Yiddish, Romani, Livonian and Istroromanian. I show that, although both matter and pattern borrowing of entire systems of Slavic or Baltic verbal prefixes is attested, grammatical aspectual categories similar to those of the donor languages do not arise in the contact languages, or develop in a way distinct from the donor languages (as in Istroromanian). This indicates that abstract grammatical oppositions such as “Slavic-style” aspect are immune to direct transfer in language contact.

  • Keywords:
  • Aspect,
  • verbal prefixes,
  • perfectivity,
  • language contact,
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Peter Arkadiev

Russian Academy of Sciences, Russian Federation - ORCID: 0000-0002-4503-2634

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Borrowed preverbs and the limits of contact-induced change in aspectual systems

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Peter Arkadiev

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The role of prefixes in the formation of aspectuality

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Issues of grammaticalization

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