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Verвal ce-constructions in Kosovo-Metohian dialects
Author(s) -
Prvoslav Radić
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
južnoslovenski filolog
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2406-0763
pISSN - 0350-185X
DOI - 10.2298/jfi0460135r
Subject(s) - serbian , participle , macedonian , linguistics , meaning (existential) , history , philosophy , verb , epistemology
The article presents one of the morpfological phenomena in Serbian dialects of Kosovo and Metohia - verbal će-constructions. It is shown that these constructions of futre tenses aррear in two different models: - with forms of present tense - indicative meaning (e.g. "će ti dadem jeno obuklo", "Će mi dadeš" "a mi će pazimo ovi ajduci"; "Ja će da čuvam noćeskena"); - with forms of active participle - relative meaning (e.g. "Рa će mu dala mravka", "Što će se setile da prospet рo ulice dukati"). These constructions is of foreign origin and occucrs in other Balkan languages too. Specially the first model (će + forms ofpresent tense) that is wide spread in Serbian dialects and even do the pressure on Modern Serbian. More attention is devoted to the second model that aрpears in southern dialects. These dialects border upon Macedonian teritory. The paper includes examples excerpted from various diatectat source

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