Aspect and Tense usage in Upper Sorbian and Czech Narrative Texts

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angličtina
Original language name
Aspect and Tense usage in Upper Sorbian and Czech Narrative Texts
Original language description
While in Russian narrative texts, the historical present must be used with ipf. verbs (Panzer 1963, 99) and in chains of events pf. verbs are obligatory, both claims do not hold for Czech and Upper Sorbian (Breu 2000a, 49; ). According to Dickey (2000 and 2008), Czech and Sorbian share the same features with respect to their aspect system with other Western Slavic languages. For modern Upper Sorbian, recent changes of the aspect distinction were described (Breu 2000b and Toops 2001), but for older texts, the same features of aspect should be relevant as for Czech (Dickey 2008, 97). As is widely known, there is a number of differences between the two Western Slavic languages as well: in Czech, only the historical present and perfect tense can be used. For literal Upper Sorbian, in addition, the usage of synthetic preterite forms is typical for narrative texts, which were lost in Czech already by the 16th century. This presentation focuses on the aspect choice and its functions in presen
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Project
<a href="/en/project/GPP406%2F11%2FP424" target="_blank" >GPP406/11/P424: The Distribution and Functions of Past Forms in Older Sorbian, Old Czech and Old Polish</a><br>
Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year
2013
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Article name in the collection
Semantičeskij spektr slavjanskogo vida. 4 Konferencija Komissii po aspektologii Meždunarodnogo Komiteta Slavistov. Geteborgskij universitet, 10 ijunija - 14 ijunija 2013 g
ISBN
978-91-86094-62-1
ISSN
2000-1134
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Number of pages
2
Pages from-to
42-43
Publisher name
Göteborgs Universitet
Place of publication
Göteborg
Event location
Göteborg Universitet
Event date
Jun 10, 2013
Type of event by nationality
EUR - Evropská akce
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