Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.21857/9e31lh4ojm
The usage and meaning of verb tenses in local varieties of the Kajkavian dialect group
Željka Brlobaš
orcid.org/0000-0002-1910-2790
; Institut za hrvatski jezik i jezikoslovlje
Abstract
In the context of categorical features of verbs, this paper analyzes verb tense
systems, with regard to other verbal forms (imperative, conditional, optative, participle),
on the level of usage and meaning in the local varieties of the Kajkavian
dialect group. The usage of verb tenses, according to the existing grammatical
descriptions of verb tenses, is based on the absolute and the relative, that is, the
absolute (primary) and relative usage of verb tenses. The basic meanings of verb
tenses and forms within the two fundamental usages are different, for example:
pantemporality, habituality, proverbiality, modality, etc. The analysis is performed
on a sample of sentence examples in dictionary entries from a corpus of published
dictionaries of local Kajkavian dialects.
Keywords
usage of verb tenses (absolute and relative); meaning of verb tenses (pantemporality, habituality, proverbiality, modality); Kajkavian dialect group
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186145
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Publication date:
1.9.2017.
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