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Prefixation in the Rise of Slavic Aspect

  • Stephen M. Dickey

This paper investigates the role that prefixes played in the development of the Slavic aspect category utilizing concepts from dynamic systems theory. It is argued that the bleaching of the prefix u- was crucial in the development of the perfectivizing function of Common Slavic prefixes, and that the semantic concept of change of state functioned as an attractor in the development of the network of prefixes and the aspect category as a whole.

  • Keywords:
  • Prefixes,
  • Slavic aspect,
  • diachrony,
  • attractors,
  • catastrophic change,
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Stephen M. Dickey

University of Kansas, United States - ORCID: 0000-0002-4112-286X

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Chapter Title

Prefixation in the Rise of Slavic Aspect

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Stephen M. Dickey

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English

DOI

10.36253/978-88-6453-698-9.07

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The role of prefixes in the formation of aspectuality

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Issues of grammaticalization

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Rosanna Benacchio, Alessio Muro, Svetlana Slavkova

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2017

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