Review article
Actionality and aspect in german and Bosnian/Croat/Serbian language
Memnuna Hasanica
; Pedagoški fakultet u Zenici Zenica, Bosna i Hercegovina
Abstract
Verb categories of actionality and aspect characterise time and place relations. Aspect deals with the time dimension in the sense of its duration and limitation of the action fl ow. Aspect is a morphological verb category in Bosnian/Croat/Serb language, whereas actionality is a lexical-semantic category. These two categories actionality and aspect are also necessarily connected with the semantic features of duration, whereby in Bosnian/Croat/Serb language they are most often connected with non-fi nite and fi nite verb aspect with perfectiveness or outcome e.g. (ab-arbeiten = od-raditi; auf-essen = po-jesti; ver-blühen = u-venuti; aus-heilen = iz-liječiti; ab-schießen = iz-baciti; er-stürmen = za-uzeti). Since in Bosnian/Croat/Serb language, which is predominantly a synthetic language, the demonstration of aspect is realized on the lexical level of language structure (word formational), whereby also the change of the aspect meanings is determined by certain formal language means on the same level, it is clear why the study of the aspect category is given priority, and in my opinion unjustifi ably, in relation to the category of actionality.
Keywords
aspect; Bosnian/Croat/Serb (b/h/s) and German languages; verb categories; semantic features of duration
Hrčak ID:
82624
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Publication date:
30.12.2008.
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