- PII
- S0373-658X0000460-9-1
- DOI
- 10.7868/SX0000460-9-1
- Publication type
- Article
- Status
- Published
- Authors
- Volume/ Edition
- Volume / Issue 3
- Pages
- 3-21
- Abstract
- It is customary to describe the imperfect of negation through the rule of “replacing” the perfect form with the imperfect in a negative context. This description does not have sufficient explanatory power. The paper proposes a direct interpretation of the meaning of the imperfect in the context of denial. A negative imperfect has two meanings: one is rare, contextually conditioned, synchronous, when the combination “not + the verb NSV” denotes a continuing state (He does not read my letter); another basic, retrospective (Om did not read my letter). For an affirmative context, the similarities and differences between retrospective imperfect and perfect are well known. The work shows that in a negative context, the choice between an imperfect in a retrospective meaning and a perfect is determined by practically the same factors as in the affirmative.
- Keywords
- aspect view imperfect imperfect view russian language negation
- Date of publication
- 05.05.2008
- Year of publication
- 2008
- Number of purchasers
- 2
- Views
- 675
RAS History & PhilologyВопросы языкознания Voprosy Jazykoznanija
- ISSN (Print) 0373-658X
- ISSN (Online) 3034-5243
Imperfect of negation in Russian
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