The mystery of the past tense in the Old Novgorod dialect

TY - JOUR

T1 - The mystery of the past tense in the Old Novgorod dialect

AU - Nørgård-Sørensen, Jens

PY - 2015/4

Y1 - 2015/4

N2 - This article addresses the question of the so-called l-less perfect (bezėlevyj perfekt), described by Zaliznjak as a variant of the Old Russian perfect specific to the Old Novgorod dialect. The few manifestations of this form in the sources are considered from a paradigmatic point of view; in other words, the analysis investigates what kind of paradigm these examples can be considered members of. This approach reveals an analogical link to other verbal paradigms and thus enables the conclusion to be drawn that the so-called l-less perfect is more appropriately analysed as an aorist with a person-number marker, that is a descendant of the former auxiliary of the perfect.

AB - This article addresses the question of the so-called l-less perfect (bezėlevyj perfekt), described by Zaliznjak as a variant of the Old Russian perfect specific to the Old Novgorod dialect. The few manifestations of this form in the sources are considered from a paradigmatic point of view; in other words, the analysis investigates what kind of paradigm these examples can be considered members of. This approach reveals an analogical link to other verbal paradigms and thus enables the conclusion to be drawn that the so-called l-less perfect is more appropriately analysed as an aorist with a person-number marker, that is a descendant of the former auxiliary of the perfect.

KW - Faculty of Humanities

KW - Old Russian

KW - Old Novgorod dialect

KW - past tense

KW - perfect

KW - language history

U2 - 10.1007/s11185-014-9140-3

DO - 10.1007/s11185-014-9140-3

M3 - Journal article

SN - 0304-3487

VL - 39

SP - 1

EP - 14

JO - Russian Linguistics

JF - Russian Linguistics

IS - 1

ER -