Imperfectives tantum

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Under imperfectives tantum (as well Perfektiva tantum ) is understood in the linguistics the occurrence of aspektdefektiven forms.

In many languages ​​that have their own verbal aspect , it can happen that some verbs only have a single grammatical aspect form: either these verbs can only be formed using their imperfective form (imperfectives tantum) or they can only be formed using their perfective aspect ( Perfective tantum ). In other words, these aspect-defective forms lack one of the two doublet forms.

As an example from the field of Slavic studies in Bulgarian, the following should be noted: all verb forms that turn out to be Latinized loanwords end in -IRам in the nominal form. All of these forms are imperfectives tantum because they do not have a perfect aspect. These include, for example, телефон ирам (phone calls), дискут ирам (discuss) or колектив ирам (collectivize).

literature

  • Vassilka Radeva, Hilmar Walter, Jordan Pencev, Sigrun Comati: Bulgarian grammar - basic morphological and syntactic features . Ed .: Vassilka Radeva. Helmut Buske Verlag, 2003, ISBN 978-3-87548-321-5 .

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