TYPOLOGICAL PECULIARITIES OF PRÄTERITUM AND PAST PERFECTIVE, PAST IMPERFECTIVE

Authors

  • Shushanik TER-ADAMYAN GSPI

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.46991/FLHE/2014/18.2.097

Keywords:

tense form, absolute tense plane, general meaning, secondary meaning, moment of speaking, time of action, semantical-functional peculiarities, area of the past, area of the future

Abstract

Präteritum and Past Perfective, Past Imperfective are equivalent tense forms in Armenian as well as in German which denote past action. The main function of these forms in Armenian is to denote completed and non-completed meanings while in German they do not have such function. In the process of grammatical neutralization these forms gain different temporal meanings which alienate the general meaning of the past.

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Published

2023-01-09

Issue

Vol. 18 No. 2 (17) (2014)

Section

Linguistics

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