Linguistics, Vol. 24. No. 2., 2023.
Preliminary communication
https://doi.org/10.29162/jez.2023.7
Towards a new future in (West and East) Slavonic?
Alexander Andrason
; University of Cape Town
Abstract
This article demonstrates that the rule according to which perfective verbs are
incompatible with the future auxiliary ‘be’ in West and East Slavonic languages
is less strict than has been claimed in scholarship. In colloquial Polish and in less
standard varieties of Upper and Lower Sorbian, as well as in Australian Russian,
the ‘be’ auxiliary may be combined with perfective verbs. Such future perfective
constructions with the ‘be’ auxiliary arise because of analogical pressures, language
internal and/or external. The Polish perfective future with ‘be’ instantiates
furthermore an analogy-driven SVC – an additional fourth source of SVCs
across languages.
Keywords
Slavonic languages, Polish, morphosyntax, future tense, aspect, serialization
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312673
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Publication date:
22.12.2023.
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