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Mood, tense, and aspect 397

Table 6.3 Forms of active participles

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

imperfective

perfective

 

 

 

 

present

Dcnhtxfz<if prs dee> lheptq, jy

Dcnhtnz<pf prs dee> dfc, z yt gjdthbk

 

hfljdfkcz.

cdjbv ukfpfv.

 

‘On meeting friends, he was happy.’

‘On meeting you, I could not believe

 

 

my eyes.’

 

non-sequential

non-sequential

(first) past

Ybrjulf ght;lt yt

Dcnhtnbd<pf pst1 dee> Gtnhf, jy

 

dcnhtxfd<if pst1 dee> frnthjd, jy

dcrjht cnjkryekcz tot c

 

ckexfqyj gjpyfrjvbkcz c

ytcrjkmrbvb pyfrjvsvb.

 

Rfxfkjdsv.

‘After meeting Petr, he soon bumped

 

‘Not having ever met actors before,

into some other acquaintances.’

 

he accidentally became

 

 

 

acquainted with Kachalov.’

 

 

 

accidental, sequential

accidental, sequential

(second)

Ybrjulf yt dcnhtxfdib<if pst2 dee>

Dcnhtnbdib<pf pst2 dee> tuj, jyf

past

frnthjd, jy yt pyfk, rfr ujdjhbnm

uecnj gjrhfcytkf.

 

c ybvb.

‘On meeting him, she blushed

 

‘Never having met actors, he did not

deeply.’

 

know how to talk with him.’

 

 

 

causal, sequential

causal, sequential

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[108]Byjulf levfkf, xnj эnj jnnjuj, xnj ytn ltntq. Yj, gjlevfdib<pst dee> uke,;t, gjybvfkf -- ytn.

She used to think sometimes it was because she had no children. But then, once she had thought about it more deeply, she understood, no.

[109]Gtnz dplj[yek, gjlevfd<pst dee> j crhjvys[ djpvj;yjcnz[ cdjtuj bycnbnenf. Petia sighed as he thought about the modest resources of his institute.

The overwhelming more frequent form {-v} is neutral ([109]).15

6.3.7 Aspectual-temporal-modal particles

Forms of the verb be have, in the course of history, become lexicalized as particles with temporal or modal functions. Most notable is ,s, ultimately derived from a special counterfactual aorist form of be in older Slavic. The particle †cnm, etymologically the third-singular form of the present tense, is used optionally in existential (§5.3.6) and copular sentences (§5.2.7).

The neuter singular, past-tense form ,ßkj can be used in combination with the past tense of a verb to indicate that an action was planned or even begun, but the event has not been followed to its conclusion, or that the expected

15Writing to Jakobson in 1933, Trubetzkoy (1975:280) said that there was no difference between lfd ‘having given’ and lfdib.