Verbal system of the Prilužje dialect in Vučitrn
The paper analyzes the use of verb forms in the speech of the village of Prilužje near Vučitrn. The inventory of syntactic units and their syntactico-semantic conditions of use is determined, as well as the stylistic effects that individual units achieve on the functional level. It has b...
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| Language: | English |
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Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Institute for the Serbian Language, Belgrade
2023-01-01
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| Series: | Južnoslovenski Filolog |
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| Online Access: | https://doiserbia.nb.rs/img/doi/0350-185X/2023/0350-185X2302121V.pdf |
| Summary: | The paper analyzes the use of verb forms in the speech of the village of
Prilužje near Vučitrn. The inventory of syntactic units and their
syntactico-semantic conditions of use is determined, as well as the
stylistic effects that individual units achieve on the functional level. It
has been shown that the Prilužje dialect has a relatively preserved and
stable system of verb forms. Present and future tense have a stable position
in the system of this dialect, while the future II tense has become
obsolete. In addition to its primary function of indicating actions that
belong to the present, the present tense is also used in its secondary
function to denote past and future actions. Future I is used exclusively to
indicate future actions, and there are no confirmations of its temporal
transposition. The system of past tenses consists of the perfect tense,
which belongs to a group of high-frequency units, and aorist and past
perfect, which are comparatively more rarely used. There is no evidence of
the use of imperfect in the recorded data, which implies that this verb form
has been eliminated in this part of the Serbian ethnolinguistic territory.
Modal verb forms - imperative and potential - are frequent in this idiom and
are used as temporally transposed units in addition to their primary modal
function. Past repeated actions can also be marked with narrative potential
and imperative (in this function, their synonym is narrative present), while
past individual actions are expressed exclusively by narrative imperative.
The present participle is noted in some examples, while there is no past
participle in this dialect. The active participle is used in the composition
of complex verb forms, and its position in the system is stable, while the
passive participle has a lower frequency. |
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| ISSN: | 0350-185X 2406-0763 |