TY  - BOOK
AU  - Belyavski-Frank, Masha
AB  - This study examines the morphological and semantic development of the modal construction formed with either the imperfect of 'to want' (Croatian/Serbian) plus the infinitive, or with a modal particle from 'to want' (Macedonian) plus the imperfect of the main verb. The Balkan conditional is analyzed using material from diverse sources, including epic folk poetry, dialectal texts, and the standard literary language in the South Slavic languages, as well as in the Balkan non-Slavic languages of Greek, Albanian, Daco-Rumanian, Istro-Rumanian, and Arumanian. Specific syntactic and semantic contexts are analyzed, and the Balkan conditional is compared to other modal constructions in these languages. One of the characteristic analytic verbal forms shared by the languages of the Balkan league is the Balkan conditional or the so-called 'future-in-the-past'. In the majority of these languages, the Balkan conditional has the status of a grammatical category, whose invariant components are 'modality', specifically 'potentiality', and 'reference to past tense'. With such components, these expressions most frequently and naturally refer to actions which did not take place, i.e., the past, contrary-to-fact conditional.
DO  - 10.3726/b12699
ID  - OAPEN ID: 1003953
ID  - OAPEN ID: OCN: 1083018927
ID  - OAPEN ID: http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/26134
KW  - analytic verbal forms
KW  - Balkan
KW  - Belyavski
KW  - bulgarian balkan conditonal
KW  - Conditional
KW  - Frank
KW  - Gallipoli and Toriak dialects
KW  - macedonian balkan conditional
KW  - Semantic
KW  - Slavic
KW  - slavic modal system
KW  - South
KW  - Study
KW  - Syntactic
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/26134/1/1003953.pdf
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/26134/1/1003953.pdf
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/26134/1/1003953.pdf
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/26134/1/1003953.pdf
LA  - German
LK  - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/34113
PB  - Peter Lang International Academic Publishing Group
PP  - Bern
PY  - 2003
SN  - 9783954790234
TI  - The Balkan Conditional in South Slavic : A Semantic and Syntactic Study
ER  - 
