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oapen-20.500.12657-892532024-04-03T02:25:10Z Chapter Valore modale ‘epistemico-doxastico’ dell’imperfetto in italiano e nelle lingue slave Trovesi, Andrea Imperfect Epistemic-doxastic modality Italian language Bulgarian language Interslavic comparison thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CF Linguistics thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism The imperfetto epistemico-doxastico in Italian and the imperfekt na doseštane in Bulgarian refer to the modal usage of the imperfect tense in interrogative sentences when asking for a reminder about information previously known, but forgotten at present. This article has two aims. Firstly, it is illustrated how such modal meaning is displayed in Bulgarian and Italian, two languages where the imperfect tense is fully functioning. Due to the existence of the future past and dedicated narrative verbal forms, in Bulgarian this modal usage of the imperfect shows bigger constraints. Secondly, a comparison with other Slavic languages is made. Whereas in Slavic languages lacking the imperfect tense this meaning cannot be usually conveyed, in Serbian and Croatian some exceptions are observed (the imperfect relic forms beše ‘he/she/it was’ and zvaše ‘he/she/it was called’; the development of a fìxed imperfect marker beše, which is added to verbal forms in the present tense). 2024-04-02T15:50:59Z 2024-04-02T15:50:59Z 2023 chapter ONIX_20240402_9791221502169_222 2612-7679 9791221502169 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/89253 ita Biblioteca di Studi Slavistici application/pdf n/a 9791221502169_14.pdf https://books.fupress.com/doi/capitoli/979-12-215-0216-9_14 Firenze University Press 10.36253/979-12-215-0216-9.14 The imperfetto epistemico-doxastico in Italian and the imperfekt na doseštane in Bulgarian refer to the modal usage of the imperfect tense in interrogative sentences when asking for a reminder about information previously known, but forgotten at present. This article has two aims. Firstly, it is illustrated how such modal meaning is displayed in Bulgarian and Italian, two languages where the imperfect tense is fully functioning. Due to the existence of the future past and dedicated narrative verbal forms, in Bulgarian this modal usage of the imperfect shows bigger constraints. Secondly, a comparison with other Slavic languages is made. Whereas in Slavic languages lacking the imperfect tense this meaning cannot be usually conveyed, in Serbian and Croatian some exceptions are observed (the imperfect relic forms beše ‘he/she/it was’ and zvaše ‘he/she/it was called’; the development of a fìxed imperfect marker beše, which is added to verbal forms in the present tense). 10.36253/979-12-215-0216-9.14 bf65d21a-78e5-4ba2-983a-dbfa90962870 9791221502169 54 18 Florence open access
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The imperfetto epistemico-doxastico in Italian and the imperfekt na doseštane in Bulgarian refer to the modal usage of the imperfect tense in interrogative sentences when asking for a reminder about information previously known, but forgotten at present. This article has two aims. Firstly, it is illustrated how such modal meaning is displayed in Bulgarian and Italian, two languages where the imperfect tense is fully functioning. Due to the existence of the future past and dedicated narrative verbal forms, in Bulgarian this modal usage of the imperfect shows bigger constraints. Secondly, a comparison with other Slavic languages is made. Whereas in Slavic languages lacking the imperfect tense this meaning cannot be usually conveyed, in Serbian and Croatian some exceptions are observed (the imperfect relic forms beše ‘he/she/it was’ and zvaše ‘he/she/it was called’; the development of a fìxed imperfect marker beše, which is added to verbal forms in the present tense).
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