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- Title
The Grammaticalization of the habere-Perfect in Standard Macedonian.
- Authors
Bu&zbreve;arovska, Eleni; Mitkovska, Liljana
- Abstract
The article discusses the grammaticalization of the habere-perfect (ima-perfect) tense in Macedonian dialects. The authors explore the functional diversity of the ima-perfect, concluding that possessive-existential is its most common functional type. They investigate stages in the development of the perfect, discussing statal nominal resultatives and the actional perfect. The aorist, sum-perfect, and be-perfect tenses are also examined. The authors comment on standard Macedonian, regional language differences, and the idiom of the Macedonian capital Skopje.
- Subjects
SKOPJE (North Macedonia); MACEDONIA; GRAMMATICALIZATION; MACEDONIAN language; TENSE (Grammar); EXISTENTIAL constructions (Grammar); DIALECTS; LINGUISTICS
- Publication
Balkanistica, 2010, Vol 23, p43
- ISSN
0360-2206
- Publication type
Article