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Ukrainian Future Tense
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| Author: | C & S | |
| Submitter Email: | click here to access email | |
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Dear All,
In standard Ukrainian, the future is formed with an auxiliary verb bearing number and gender agreement followed by the infinitive form of the main verb. I have recently come in contact with a dialect of standard Ukrainian (spoken in rural Manitoba, Canada) which is divergent in its formation of the future tense: it features the same auxiliary, but the main verb appears in the *past-tense form*; this means not only that it uses the past-tense stem, but it bears * number and gender agreement*. Is this phenomenon common to other slavic languages? Is it common to a language that would have been in contact with Ukraine in the 19th century? Yiddish has been suggested as possible contact language. I'm not a linguist; however, even if my question is of personal interest, I will be happy to provide a summary of the answers provided. Write to me directly at egerton@pangea.ca Thanks for your interest. Stephan Hardy. Dear Fellow Linguists, A student from the Linguistics Masters program is looking for references on Second Language Acquisition and Phonology. What would be your Best Of list? Thank you in advance on her behalf. Prof. H. Knoerr ***************************************************************** H�l�ne Knoerr Institut des langues secondes Universit� d'Ottawa 600 King Edward OTTAWA, Ontario K1H 7P7 hknoerr@uottawa.ca (613) 562-5800/ 3475 (613) 562-5126 (fax) ***************************************************************** |
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| LL Issue: | 10.1593 | |
| Date posted: | 23-Oct-1999 | |
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