About the book:
Imagine you had been lucky to taste mojito at La Bodeguita del Medio, in La Habana, where Hemingway wrote on the wall: “My mojito in La Bodeguita, my daiquiri in El Floridita”. Back home, you try to make the famous cocktail. You mix lime with sugar, add some ounces of rum and taste it: bitter. Add some sugar. Taste it again: too sweet. Add crushed ice: too watery. Add some spearmint: a different flavour, but still watery. Add some rum. Taste it again: a sense of strange and pleasant feeling of drunkenness is emerging. The process is becoming captivating and exhilarating.
A Bulgarian verb is build up in a similar way. You take a root, let’s say PIIA “drink”, and add a prefix na-. The new verb napiia means get drunk. Add a different prefix, iz-, to the root and you get a verb meaning drain the cup. Add two prefixes, po- and raz-, and the result is begin to drink a little. Insert a suffix -n- into the root and the original drink becomes drink once / drink a bit. Want to create a sense of “if moderate anything is good”? Add a prefix po- and a suffix - va - to the root and the original verb becomes popiivam “drink moderately" (that’s how I see it).
You place a Bulgarian verb in Aktionsart and all you get is: drink – Activity verb. Pure and simple. And flavourless.
Whether to drink sophisticated cocktails or stay with “Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum” is a matter of preference. The same with words.
About the author:
Anelia Stefanova Ignatova, PhD, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Linguistics Applied to Science and Technology, at the Polytechnic University of Madrid, Spain.
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 An overview of Role and Reference Grammar
- 1.1 A structural-functionalist theory of grammar
- 1.2 Semantic representation of the clause
- 1.2.1 Lexical representation of verbs and other predicating elements
- 1.2.2 Semantic interpretation of an argument
- 1.3 Syntactic representation of the clause
- 1.3.1 The layered structure of the clause
- 1.3.2 Operators
- 1.3.3 Syntactic templates and grammatical relations
- 1.3.4 Grammatical relations
- 1.4 Linking
- 2 Bulgarian Aspect
- 2.1 The verb categories
- 2.2 Definition of vid na glagola (aspect)
- 2.2.1 Terminology
- 2.2.2 Morpho-syntactic properties of complete and incomplete verbs
- 2.3 Verb morphology
- 2.3.1 The aspectual significance of the verbal stem
- 2.3.2 Prefixes
- 2.3.3 Modes of action
- 2.3.4 The perfectivizing function of prefixes
- 2.3.5 Suffixes
- 2.4 Various approaches to aspect and Aktionsart
- 3 Bulgarian aspect within RRG
- 3.1 Aspect diagnostic
- 3.2 A Class of verbs: unprefixed, incomplete
- 3.3 State verbs
- 3.3.1 Identificational LSs and attributive LSs
- 3.3.2 First stage of prefixation (effective and effective-communicative modes of action)
- 3.3.3 First stage of prefixation (iterative-attenuative mode)
- 3.3.4 From interclausal to clausal relationships
- 3.3.5 Result state constructions
- 3.3.6 Two-place state predicates
- 3.4 Activity verbs
- 3.4.1 Evolutive mode of action
- 3.4.2 The nature of the second argument of activity verbs
- 3.5 B1 Class of verbs: unprefixed, complete
- 3.6 Accomplishment and Achievement verbs
- 3.7 B2 Class of verbs: unprefixed, suffixed, incomplete, derived from B1 Class
- 3.8 C1 Class of verbs: prefixed, complete
- 3.8.1 Second stage of semantic loading
- 3.8.1.1 Ingressive meaning
- 3.8.1.2 Resultative meaning
- 3.8.1.3 Semelfactive meaning
- 3.8.2 “Empty” prefixes
- 3.9 C2 Class of verbs: prefixed, suffixed, incomplete
- 3.9.1 Achievement verbs
- 3.9.1.1 Ingressive encodes instantaneous changes
- 3.10 D1Class of verbs and D2 Class of verbs: the suffix ”-n”- a Semelfactive suffix
- 4 Conclusions
- 4.1 Derivations
- 4.2 Logical Structures and the Aspect Operator
- 4.3 Grammatically relevant conclusions
- 4.4 Aspectual classes versus Aktionsart
- 4.4.1 The notion of completeness/incompleteness of an action
- 4.4.2 Interrelatedness of aspect with other grammatical categories
- Bibliography
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