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(Winter-Spring 1999; 1-168)
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ABSTRACTS Expressing Ingressivity in Slavic: The Contextually-Conditioned Imperfective Past vs. the Phase Verb stat' and Procedural za- Stephen M. Dickey This article discusses different modes of expressing ingressivity in the Slavic languages – the grammatical expression of ingressivity (by means of imperfective verb forms) and its lexical expression (by means of the use of stat' as an ingressive phase verb or perfective procedural verbs prefixed with za-) – and relates them to one another as two competing systems. It is shown that these phenomena are in complementary distribution: languages that imploy the contextually-conditioned imperfective past to a high degree only imploy stat' and za- to express ingressivity to a very low degree or not at all, and vice-versa. More specifically, the contextually-conditioned imperfective past is characteristic of the extreme western end of Slavic (Czech, Slovak, Sorbian, Slovene), whereas stat' and za- are characteristic of an eastern group of languages (Russian, Ukrainian, Belorusion, Bulgarian); two languages (Polish and Serbo-Croatian occupy a transitional position between the two groups. Finally, the respective modes of expressing ingressivity are discussed within the theory of Slavic aspect developed in Dickey 1997.
The Ellipsis of Accusative Direct Objects in Russian, Polish and Czech Marjorie J. McShane This article explores the ellipsis of configurational Accusative direct objects whose antecedents are Accusative or Nominative noun phrases. Ellipsis potential is shown to vary significantly among the three Slavic languages under study, according to the continuum Russian > Polish > Czech. Within each language, however, patterns of ellipsis are largely predictable based on the interaction of syntactic, lexico-semantic, and discourse factors.
The Word Order of Predicate Clitics in Bulgarian Kjetil Rå Hauge First published in 1976 as no. 10 in the series Universitet i Oslo.
Meddelelser. Slavisk-baltisk institutt. The clitics are introduced
and listed in section 1. Section 2 deals with the question of movable
clitics, and section 3 with the relative ordering of clitic pronouns and
their cooccurence constraints. The present tense of the auxiary verb/copula
sâm, the future particle ste, the negative particle
ne, the question particle li, and the particle da
are discussed in sections 4 - 8. Section 9 takes up questions in connection
with stressed auxiliary verb forms, and conclusions are given in section
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