Two Major Manifestations of Compositional Aspect in Bulgarian

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Страници: 115-125
DOI: https://doi.org/10.54664/BTLO4022

Резюме:

Compositional aspect (CA), a fundamental language phenomenon discovered in 1972 by Henk Verkuyl, still remains, almost half a century later, to a certain extent misconceptualized, despite the sea of publications dealing with it. CA is the mechanism of explication, at the level of the sentence, of the values of perfectivity and imperfectivity – otherwise found in verbs as lexical entries in the Slavic languages. One of the major issues of CA is: does it also exist in Slavic languages alongside verbal aspect? If it does, what are its manifestations? In spite of certain attempts, no exhaustive answer to such questions has been provided so far. The article advocates the view that CA can be said to exist in Slavic as a relatively peripheral phenomenon. A description is made of two manifestations of CA in Bulgarian.

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compositional aspect, verbal aspect, markers of boundedness, mapping of boundedness and non-boundedness

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