Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.22210/suvlin.2018.085.06
Orphan Secondary Imperfectives in Croatian
Jurica Polančec
Abstract
The paper deals with the phenomenon of orphan secondary imperfectives in the Croatian
language. Orphan imperfectives are secondary imperfectives that are either semantically different
from their perfective partner or whose perfective partner is unattested in contemporary Croatian.
These two types of orphan secondary imperfectives can be further divided into three subtypes.
This study is the first account of this phenomenon in Croatian. The proposed classification
is based on an analysis of some 60 Croatian verbs that were extracted from dictionaries
of contemporary language as well as dictionaries of older language. The complexity of the
phenomenon is underscored in the paper and the need for further research into the phenomenon
is addressed. Finally, the paper demonstrates that orphan secondary imperfectives are not dealt
with in a satisfactory manner in dictionaries of contemporary Croatian, and more attention ought
to be paid to this phenomenon in lexicography.
Keywords
aspect; secondary imperfectivization; orphan secondary imperfectives; Croatian language
Hrčak ID:
203947
URI
Publication date:
23.7.2018.
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