Tendencies in expressing verbal aspect in the Gurbet Romani: pilot experimental study with elementary-school children
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The Romani system of tense-aspect-modality categories consists of three dimensions: aspectual (perfective : non-perfective), temporal (remote : non-remote), and modal (the category “intentionality”). Aspect is expressed as an extension to the verb stem: the perfective aspect is marked with a perfective marker added to the stem in order to express a completed event, whereas the absence of perfectivity provides an ongoing perspective (Matras 2001). This paper reports on a pilot study of verbal aspect in the Gurbet variety of Romani spoken by elementary-school children in eastern Serbia (the village of Minićevo, next to the town of Knjaževac). Participants (7 Romani-Serbian bilingual children aged 7 to 10) were shown short non-verbal cartoons from the serial “Die Sendung mit der Maus”. Participants were asked to retell the content of the cartoons and their production was video-recorded and transcribed. The research was conducted in November 2017, and the material is available in the Digit...al Archive of the Institute for Balkan Studies (Belgrade). The analysis is based on 23 narratives revealing the following tendencies: perfective markers are added to the verb stems to express completed events; ongoing events are typically unmarked for perfectivity; verbs unmarked for perfectivity additionally refer
to completed events; Serbian loanverbs, morphologically adapted to Romani, are used to convey the aspect; and perfectivity is additionally achieved by borrowing Serbian prefixes. Although the majority of verbs behave in the expected way in terms of aspect, several exceptions are observed, suggesting that the choice of a verb form (perfective vs. nonperfective) might refer to the temporal dimension of an event, to its iterativity, or moreover be used for the narrative purposes.
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verbal aspect / perfectivity / the Gurbet Romani / loanverbs / children’s narrativesSource:
Studies in language and mind 3. Selected papers from the 6th & 7th Workshop on Psycholinguistic, Neurolinguistic and ClinicalLinguistic Research, 2019Publisher:
- Novi Sad : Faculty of Philosophy, University of Novi Sad
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- Language, folklore, migrations in the Balkans (RS-MESTD-Basic Research (BR or ON)-178010)
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Балканолошки институт САНУ / Institute for Balkan Studies SASATY - CONF AU - Mirić, Mirjana PY - 2019 UR - https://dais.sanu.ac.rs/123456789/7010 AB - The Romani system of tense-aspect-modality categories consists of three dimensions: aspectual (perfective : non-perfective), temporal (remote : non-remote), and modal (the category “intentionality”). Aspect is expressed as an extension to the verb stem: the perfective aspect is marked with a perfective marker added to the stem in order to express a completed event, whereas the absence of perfectivity provides an ongoing perspective (Matras 2001). This paper reports on a pilot study of verbal aspect in the Gurbet variety of Romani spoken by elementary-school children in eastern Serbia (the village of Minićevo, next to the town of Knjaževac). Participants (7 Romani-Serbian bilingual children aged 7 to 10) were shown short non-verbal cartoons from the serial “Die Sendung mit der Maus”. Participants were asked to retell the content of the cartoons and their production was video-recorded and transcribed. The research was conducted in November 2017, and the material is available in the Digital Archive of the Institute for Balkan Studies (Belgrade). The analysis is based on 23 narratives revealing the following tendencies: perfective markers are added to the verb stems to express completed events; ongoing events are typically unmarked for perfectivity; verbs unmarked for perfectivity additionally refer to completed events; Serbian loanverbs, morphologically adapted to Romani, are used to convey the aspect; and perfectivity is additionally achieved by borrowing Serbian prefixes. Although the majority of verbs behave in the expected way in terms of aspect, several exceptions are observed, suggesting that the choice of a verb form (perfective vs. nonperfective) might refer to the temporal dimension of an event, to its iterativity, or moreover be used for the narrative purposes. PB - Novi Sad : Faculty of Philosophy, University of Novi Sad C3 - Studies in language and mind 3. Selected papers from the 6th & 7th Workshop on Psycholinguistic, Neurolinguistic and ClinicalLinguistic Research T1 - Tendencies in expressing verbal aspect in the Gurbet Romani: pilot experimental study with elementary-school children UR - https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_dais_7010 ER -
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Mirić, M.. (2019). Tendencies in expressing verbal aspect in the Gurbet Romani: pilot experimental study with elementary-school children. in Studies in language and mind 3. Selected papers from the 6th & 7th Workshop on Psycholinguistic, Neurolinguistic and ClinicalLinguistic Research Novi Sad : Faculty of Philosophy, University of Novi Sad.. https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_dais_7010
Mirić M. Tendencies in expressing verbal aspect in the Gurbet Romani: pilot experimental study with elementary-school children. in Studies in language and mind 3. Selected papers from the 6th & 7th Workshop on Psycholinguistic, Neurolinguistic and ClinicalLinguistic Research. 2019;. https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_dais_7010 .
Mirić, Mirjana, "Tendencies in expressing verbal aspect in the Gurbet Romani: pilot experimental study with elementary-school children" in Studies in language and mind 3. Selected papers from the 6th & 7th Workshop on Psycholinguistic, Neurolinguistic and ClinicalLinguistic Research (2019), https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_dais_7010 .