ISSN: 2306-5737E-ISSN: 2658-4069
Acta Linguistica Petropolitana
Transactions of the Institute for Linguistic Studies
ISSN: 2306-5737E-ISSN: 2658-4069
Acta Linguistica Petropolitana
Transactions of the Institute for Linguistic Studies 

Indo-European origins of Armenian aorist stems

DOI:10.30842/alp2306573714103
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Kazaryan V. K. Indoyevropeyskiye istoki obrazovaniya osnov armyanskogo aorista. Acta Linguistica Petropolitana. 68.
The paper addresses the characteristic traits of the aorist as opposed to the present in Proto-Indo-European and Old Armenian. At the second and third stages in the development of Proto-Indo-European, the tense was marked by verbal endings, while the aspect was marked by stems. The root aorist stem could be recharacterised by secondary imperfective markers (affixes, reduplication) and the root present could be recharacterised by secondary perfective markers (reduplication, the sigmatic suffix). The resulting morphological make-up of an opposition of the present and aorist stems was verb-specific; one of the two stems was marked while another one non-marked.The Proto-Indo-European opposition of tense-aspect stems was strengthened by the development of the imperfect, because the formal match of the present and aorist stems would yield the non-distinction of the aorist and imperfect tenses. This state of affairs is represented in Old Indic and, to some extend, in Ancient Greek and Old Church Slavic. Similarly, Old Armenian retained and developed the binary opposition of the present and aorist stems, which resulted in the rise of regular verbal classes with stable combinations of marked and non-marked stems.
Keywords
Armenian verb, tense-aspect system, Indo-European aorist, time-space model, opposition of verbal stems, marked and non-marked stems
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Keywords
Armenian verb, tense-aspect system, Indo-European aorist, time-space model, opposition of verbal stems, marked and non-marked stems
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