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Aspect and Verbal Action in Albanian - Activity Verbs

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  • Gjilda Alimhilli Prendushi

    (Department of English, University of Bari “Aldo Moro†, Italy)

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In this article we introduce and analyze the morfo-syntactic behaviour of activity verbs in standard Albanian.The grouping of verbs by their lexical-semantic meaning deals with the study of the way of presentation of the action development. To the verbal action we refer when we are looking to analyze and classify the lexical meanings of different verbs, which are grouped or separated by the means of word formation. Even in the cases when for the expression of verbal action are used special syntactic constructions, these are, still, as a function of their respective lexical meaning. However, they don`t deal with the grammatical meanings but with the lexical meanings of these constructions. In the case of aspect there are grammatical oppositions, expressed with grammatical means, therefore with different forms of the same verb. The aspect in the Albanian language is realized, above all, by the change of tenses, as amongst the imperfective and the perfective (aorist), instead of the verbal action that, generally, it is not indicated by the means of conjugation. Finally, we will study the meanings related not from individual lexical meaning, but from the general lexical meaning. It is this feature that makes the verbal action in Albanian an objective category, different and distinguishable from the subjective category of aspect .

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  • Gjilda Alimhilli Prendushi, 2021. "Aspect and Verbal Action in Albanian - Activity Verbs," European Journal of Language and Literature Studies Articles, Revistia Research and Publishing, vol. 9, July-Dece.
    • Handle: RePEc:eur:ejlsjr:262
    DOI: 10.26417/ejls.v5i1.p22-29
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