Towards an Areal Typology of Prefixal Perfectivization

Arkadiev, Peter

doi:10.1080/00806765.2014.984473

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“…Preverbs play an important role in the aspectual system both in Slavic and Baltic, by being able to perfectivize verbs; see Arkadiev (2014Arkadiev ( , 2017 and Benacchio et al (2017) for a broader context. Despite general similarities between Slavic and Baltic aspectual systems, one can safely say that the aspect in Slavic is more grammaticalized than in Baltic (Holvoet 2001;Wiemer 2001;Arkadiev 2011).…”

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Verbal modifiers in areal perspective: The case of Latvian Romani

Kozhanov

Ross

2022

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Based on the analysis of the texts collected in the 1930s in Latvia and Estonia, this paper provides a description of the semantics of the verbal modifiers, i.e., prefixes (preverbs) and particles, in Latvian Romani. The system of verbal modifiers in Latvian Romani is an innovation evolved under Slavic and Baltic influence. Most preverbs are instances of MAT-borrowing from Slavic and Baltic, whereas verb particles are a PATborrowing, modelled after the Latvian system. The paper argues that even preverbs of Slavic origin often copy the semantics and derivational patterns of Latvian prefixed verbs. It is also shown that, differently from Latvian, in Romani both preverbs and verb particles can affect the verb’s argument structure (e.g., by making it transitive) and change its aspectual value (e.g., by making it perfective). Finally, the distribution of verbal modifiers in Latvian Romani (the development of verb particles as opposed to other closely related Northeastern Romani dialects which only have prefixes, and higher frequency of verb particles in Estonia than in Latvia) confirms the areal cline in the spread of verb particles.

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Verbal modifiers in areal perspective: The case of Latvian Romani

Kozhanov

Ross

2022

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“…Verbal prefixation in Livonian is also a subject in a few typologi cal studies. Arkadiev (2014) and 2015are arealtypological studies of prefixal perfectivization. Arkadiev (2014) mentions Livonian as an example of a language without native prefixes that has borrowed prefixes and their functions, including imperfective and perfective as pectual opposition, as a result of intensive language contact.…”

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“…Arkadiev (2014) and 2015are arealtypological studies of prefixal perfectivization. Arkadiev (2014) mentions Livonian as an example of a language without native prefixes that has borrowed prefixes and their functions, including imperfective and perfective as pectual opposition, as a result of intensive language contact. Arkadiev (2015) aims to describe aspectual systems based on verbal prefixes by distinguishing typologically considerable features and to find areal features and possible correlations in these features, for example in the degree of grammaticalization of aspectual categories.…”

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Syntactic and aspectual functions of Latvian verbal prefixes in Livonian

Jantunen

2019

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This paper presents an analysis of an assumed contact-induced change in the Livonian modes of expressing perfective aspect: the adoption of Latvian-origin verbal prefixes expressing perfective aspect. The main objective of this article is to determine whether long-standing contact between Livonian and Latvian has led to the introduction of verbal prefixes as both pure lexical elements and, in parallel, as markers of grammatical functions that distinguish Livonian from its closest cognate languages. The current study is based on the data derived from unpublished recordings and published written material representing spoken Livonian, already extinct as a first language in the traditional speech area. There are a total of eleven Latvian-origin verbal prefixes in Livonian, a language which usually does not display this category. The prefixes are as follows: aiz-, ap-, at-, ie-, iz-, nuo-, pa-, pie-, pōr-, sa-, and uz-. In Latvian, most of these items can be used as bound verbal prefixes and also prepositions marking adverbial functions. In Livonian, these prefixes can be combined with both Livonian and Latvian verbs but, as a rule – except for pa- – they do not occur as prepositions. The frequency of their occurrence in the data varies considerably and, presumably, corresponds to the degree that a given prefix may derive perfective verbs. In fact, verbal prefixation can be considered, to some extent, a means for expressing perfective aspect in Livonian, thereby adding a secondary strategy to the inherent Finnic way of expressing aspectual oppositions, namely the object case alternation and verbal particles.

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Borrowing of Morphology

Arkadiev,

Kozhanov

2023

The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Morphology

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This is a survey of the domain of morphological borrowing complemented with a case study of contact‐induced phenomena in the domain of verbal prefixes in Baltic, Slavic and neighbouring languages. Section 2 presents a concise overview of the main divisions and analytical problems of morphological borrowing, focusing on the distinction between matter borrowing and pattern borrowing, on the one hand, and on the borrowing of different types of morphology (e.g. derivation vs inflection, affixes vs processes, etc.). Section 3 further illustrates these issues on the basis of the data of the borrowing phenomena involving verbal prefixes in Baltic and Slavic, such as borrowing of individual prefixes from Slavic into Baltic dialects and of whole systems of prefixes from Slavic into Romani and Istro‐Romanian and from Baltic into Livonian, as well as cases of pattern replication involving verbal prefixes in Lithuanian, Yiddish and Romani. The borrowability of the Slavic and Baltic verbal aspect expressed by means of prefixation is also discussed, and it is shown that the aspectual values of borrowed prefixes are never exact copies of their counterparts in the source languages.

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Towards an Areal Typology of Prefixal Perfectivization

Cited by 10 publications

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Verbal modifiers in areal perspective: The case of Latvian Romani

Verbal modifiers in areal perspective: The case of Latvian Romani

Syntactic and aspectual functions of Latvian verbal prefixes in Livonian

Borrowing of Morphology

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