ahvalj
Senior Member
Russian
The most widespread pattern of forming secondary imperfectives in Slavic is exemplified by the following Old Church Slavonic type:
There is, however, a smaller type exemplified by:
This latter type has been mostly eliminated in younger languages, yet Serbo-Croatian still has a number of verbs of it, like sastajati se, sastajem se, or kretati, krećem, or zatezati, zatežem, or naricati, naričem (and, of course, the very widespread secondary prepisivati, prepisujem).
I have two questions in this regard. (1) Does this type survive in other languages (aside from prepisujem-type that does)? (2) In Serbo-Croatian, is there evidence that this type expanded over time by attracting new verbs from the -am-type?
[P. S. Please, do not move this to the etymology forum.]
- pasti, padǫ (perfective) → padati, padajǫ (imperfective)
- obrězati, obrěžǫ → obrězati, obrězajǫ
- sъzьdati, sъziždǫ → sъzidati, sъzidajǫ
- narešti, narekǫ → naricati, naricajǫ
- razoriti, razoŗǫ → razaŗati, razaŗajǫ
- osnovati, osnujǫ → osnyvati, osnyvajǫ
- počiti, počijǫ → počijati, počijajǫ
There is, however, a smaller type exemplified by:
- narešti, narekǫ → naricati, naričǫ
- skočiti, skočǫ → skakati, skačǫ
- dvignǫti, dvignǫ → dviʣati, dvižǫ
- povinǫti sę, povinǫ sę → povinovati sę, povinujǫ sę
- stati, stanǫ → stajati, stajǫ
- dati, damь → dajati, dajǫ
This latter type has been mostly eliminated in younger languages, yet Serbo-Croatian still has a number of verbs of it, like sastajati se, sastajem se, or kretati, krećem, or zatezati, zatežem, or naricati, naričem (and, of course, the very widespread secondary prepisivati, prepisujem).
I have two questions in this regard. (1) Does this type survive in other languages (aside from prepisujem-type that does)? (2) In Serbo-Croatian, is there evidence that this type expanded over time by attracting new verbs from the -am-type?
[P. S. Please, do not move this to the etymology forum.]
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