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 -