The Balkan Conditional in South Slavic
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Slavistische Beiträge ∙ Band 421 (eBook - Digi20-Retro) Masha Belyavski-Frank The Balkan Conditional in South Slavic A Semantic and Syntactic Study Verlag Otto Sagner München ∙ Berlin ∙ Washington D.C. Digitalisiert im Rahmen der Kooperation mit dem DFG-Projekt „Digi20“ der Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek, München. OCR-Bearbeitung und Erstellung des eBooks durch den Verlag Otto Sagner: http://verlag.kubon-sagner.de © bei Verlag Otto Sagner. Eine Verwertung oder Weitergabe der Texte und Abbildungen, insbesondere durch Vervielfältigung, ist ohne vorherige schriftliche Genehmigung des Verlages unzulässig. «Verlag Otto Sagner» ist ein Imprint der Kubon & Sagner GmbHMasha. 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München 2003 Abteilung der Firma Kuhon Ä: Sagncr D-80328 München Gedruckt auf alierungshcstundixem Papier Masha Belyavski-Frank - 9783954790234 Downloaded from PubFactory at 01/10/2019 02:10:21AM ב ׳ 0 ״ד via free access 00056000 Contents List of Illustrations .........................................................................................iii List of T ables.................................................................................................. vi Acknowledgments .......................................................................................... ix 1. Introduction............................................................................................ 1 The Balkan Conditional in South Slavic ................................................ 2 How the Balkan Conditional Functions ................................................. 5 The Problem of the Balkan Conditional in Dialectal Serbo-Croatian ......7 Preliminary Definition of the Serbo-Croatian Balkan Conditional .........10 Prior Investigations ..............................................................................11 2. The Balkan Conditional in Serbo-Croatian Epic Poetry, and its Comparison with B i ................................................................ 19 Non-Shared Semantic Functions of B i................................................. 20 Exclusive Semantic Functions of Ščaše............................................... 22 Shared Semantic Functions ................................................................. 31 3. Phonology, Morpho-Syntactic Analysis and Geographic Distribution ..........................................................................................43 Phonology ..........................................................................................43 Morphology: Loss of the Imperfect and Aorist .................................... 49 Morpho-Syntactic Problems and the Balkan Conditional ..................... 52 Infinitival Constructions vs. Da + the Non-Past ...................................59 Morphological Comparison................................................................. 66 4. Distribution of Semantic Functions and Parallel Modal Constructions with H tjeti.................................................................... 79 Introduction ........................................................................................ 79 Expressions with the Aorist of Htjeti................................................... 82 Expressions with the Pcrfect of Htjeti.................................................. 88 Comparison of the Semantics of the Perfect. Aorist, and Imperfect of Htjeti ...........................................................................94 Masha Belyavski-Frank - 9783954790234 Downloaded from PubFactory at 01/10/2019 02:10:21AM via free access « • II Contents 5. Ščaše Expressions in Colloquiai Speech and Folk Prose ................97 Gallipoli and Toriak Dialects .............................................................. 97 Kosovo-Resava Dialects ................................................................... 102 Zeta-Južni-Sandžak Dialects.............................................................. 109 Hercegovinian Dialects ..................................................................... 120 The Semantics of the Balkan Conditional in Folk Prose .................... 130 The Semantics of Ščaše in Belles Lettres .......................................... 136 Migrations in the Balkan Peninsula, and Their Effect on the Serbo-Croatian Balkan Conditional...................................... 148 Conclusions ....................................................................................... 153 Addendum ......................................................................................... 154 6. The Macedonian Balkan Conditional .............................................. 157 Phonology, Morphology and History ................................................. .157 Literature on the Macedonian Balkan Conditional ............................. 160 Keše in the Literary Language ........................................................... .163 The Semantics of Keše in the Dialects ............................................... .166 Comparison of the Balkan Conditional in Macedonian and Serbo-Croatian............................................................................... 180 Semantics of the Macedonian and Serbo-Croatian Balkan Conditional .................................................................................... .181 7. The Bulgarian Balkan Conditional .................................................. 185 Semantics of the Balkan Conditional in Literary Bulgarian ............... .187 Semantics of the Bulgarian Balkan Conditional in the Dialects .......... .190 Modal Expressions in Dialectal and Literary Bulgarian ..................... .202 The Functions of Bi and Šteše in the Folk Language ...........................205 Conclusions ....................................................................................... .209 8. The Balkan Conditional and Its Comparison with Modal Expressions in North Slavic ................................................. 211 Bulgarian, Macedonian, and Serbo-Croatian ...................................... 211 Markedness and the Balkan Conditional in South Slavic ................... 214 Comparison of the North Slavic Modal System with South Slavic ..... 223 Periphrastic Modal Expressions in Polish .......................................... 227 Periphrastic Modal Constructions in Russian ..................................... 232 9. The Balkan Conditional in Non-Slavic Languages and its Comparison with South Slavic ........................................................ 235 The Balkan Conditional in the Tosk Dialects of Albanian ................. 235 The Status of Modal Expressions in the Gheg Dialects ...................... 239 The Balkan Conditional in Rumanian ................................................ 245 Masha Belyavski-Frank - 9783954790234 Downloaded from PubFactory at 01/10/2019 02:10:21AM via free access 00056000 Contents iii The Balkan Conditional in Arumanian .............................................. 246 The Balkan Conditional in Istro-Rumanian ........................................ 250 The Balkan Conditional in Dialectal Daco-Rumanian ........................ 253 The Balkan Conditional in Greek ......................................................262 The Development of a Secondary Balkan Conditional in a Greek Macedonian Dialect ......................................................266 The Balkan Conditional in Perspective .............................................. 271 The Status of the Serbo-Croatian Balkan Conditional in Perspective .. 279 Bibliography................................................................................................. 283 Index ............................................................................................................. 301 Figures/Illustrations 1. Distribution of the Balkan Conditional according to Type of Auxiliary Verb ....................................................................................................... 3 2. Dialects of Serbo-Croatian with the Balkan Conditional ................ 18 3. Distribution of Semantic Functions for Bi and Ščaše (Outside of Montenegro) ................................................................... 35 4. Distribution of Semantic Functions of Bi and Ščaše in Montenegrin Dialects.......................................................................... 36 5. Markedness for Exclusive Semantic Functions in the Outer Core A re a ............................................................................................. 40 6. Markedness for Exclusive Semantic Functions in the Inner Core A re a ............................................................................................. 40 7. Projected Development of Dialectal Variants of the Imperfect of Htjeti ..............................................................................44