How to do things with tense and aspect: performativity before austin
Auteur :
Zagar, Igor Z.
Éditeur :
Zagar, Igor Z.Grgic, Matejka,
ISBN :
9781443832120
Date de publication :
1 oct. 2011
Dimensions :
21,2 x 14,8 x 2,3 cm
Poids :
363 g
Format :
With dust jacket
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
Almost all verbs in Slovene (one of the least researched Slavic languages) have two aspectually different forms, the perfective (PF) and the imperfective (IF). But in institutional settings or settings strongly marked with social hierarchy, only the second, the imperfective form, is used by Slovene speakers in a performative sense. Why is that?