Verbal aspect in Old Church Slavonic : : a corpus-based approach / / by Jaap Kamphuis.

• Superior document: Studies in Slavic and general linguistics ; Volume 45
• VerfasserIn: Kamphuis, Jaap,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, The Netherlands ;, Boston : : Brill Rodopi,, [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in Slavic and general linguistics ; Volume 45.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.

In Verbal Aspect in Old Church Slavonic Jaap Kamphuis demonstrates that the aspect system of Old Church Slavonic can best be described if one divides the verbs into three main categories: perfective, imperfective and anaspectual. This differs from the traditional division into perfective and imperfective verbs only. To support the categorization, the study contains a corpus-based quantitative and qualitative analysis of the available Old Church Slavonic data. This analysis contributes to a better understanding of the development of aspect in Slavic. Kamphuis shows that aspect in Old Church Slavonic functions more like verbal aspect in the Western groups of Slavic languages (e.g. Czech) than like that in the Eastern group (e.g. Russian).

Table of Contents

1. Old Church Slavonic -- 2. Verbal Aspect -- 3. Research Questions and Hypotheses -- 4. Various Approaches to Determining Aspect in OCS -- 5. Morphological Markers of Aspect -- 6. The OCS Verbal Paradigm -- 7. Grammatical Profile Analysis -- 8. The Functions of Verbal Aspect in OCS -- 9. Semantic Analysis of Non-core Groups -- 10. The Development of Derivational Aspect: a Case Study -- 11. Conclusion -- Verb Forms Discussed in Examples -- References -- Index.