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Chapter | Che cosa ci può dire il corpus sull’imperfettivo fattuale in ceco?

Che cosa ci può dire il corpus sull’imperfettivo fattuale in ceco?

Abstract

In this article the author investigates the use of the factual imperfective in Czech through the Czech National Corpus. A comparison is made with the perfective aspect in a very specific context, but at the same time frequent, because of common use: ráno jsem vstával(a) vs vstal(a) ‘the / this morning I got up’. The results show that the perfective is found mainly in sequences of events and the factual imperfective in argumentative discourses (in both cases in the measure of 80%). While the exceptions are functional in the narration for the imperfective, the perfective in the argumentative contexts appears random and testifies to the existence of a gray area in which the aspects are almost interchangeable.


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Submitted: April 16, 2019 | Accepted: May 16, 2019 | Published Dec. 18, 2019 | Language: it

Keywords Verbal aspect • Factual meaning • Czech language

Copyright © 2019 François Esvan. This is an open-access work distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction is permitted, provided that the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. The license allows for commercial use. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

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