TY - JOUR T1 - Boundaries and borders in Balkan Slavic JF - International journal of Slavic linguistics and poetics Y1 - 2006 A1 - Victor А. Friedman IS - 44-45 N1 -

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JO - IJSLP ER - TY - CHAP T1 - Language planning and status in the Republic of Macedonia and in Kosovo T2 - Language in the former Yugoslav Lands Y1 - 2004 A1 - Victor А. Friedman ED - Bugarski, Ranko ED - Hawkesworth, Celia JF - Language in the former Yugoslav Lands PB - Slavica Publishers CY - Bloomington, Indiana ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Aspectual oppositions in Bulgarian, Albanian and Turkish JF - Съпоставително езикознание / Сопоставительное языкознание / Contrastive linguistics Y1 - 1992 A1 - Victor А. Friedman KW - Contrastive Studies KW - съпоставителни изследвания AB -

In translated Bulgarian, Albanian and Turkish examples lacking the expected correspondences of aorists and imperfects, either Turkish or Bulgarian has an imperfect where the other two have aorists. This is evidence that the imperfect is more marked in each language since a more marked form is less likely to correspond to another language’s counterpart. The noncorresponding imperfects denote sequential or inceptive activities, which contradicts the meaning of contemporaneousness suggested for Bulgarian and Albanian. Perhaps because it is Indo-European like Bulgarian but lacks a superordinate aspectual opposition like Turkish, Albanian is intermediate in using the aorist when one of the others has an imperfect.

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