Original research article
Acta Albaruthenica

On the Possibility of Greek Influence on the Development of Slavic Present Passive Participles

2021, Issue 21

Anatol Bahdzevich

0000-0002-8101-1590

Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno, Department of English Language and Literature

DOI

10.32612/uw.18988091.2021.21.pp.165–175

Submission date

01.11.2021

Acceptance date

12.12.2021

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open access

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CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 PL

Field

Humanities

Discipline

linguistics

Language of publication

Belarusian

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Abstract

The passive participles of the present tense have been actively used only in Russian out of all Slavic languages since the 19th century and are a grammatical category that is not accepted by all native speakers of the standard Belarusian language as a normative one. During the development of Slavic languages, it has been experiencing two opposite tendencies: decline and revival. The article examines extralinguistic and intralinguistic factors that could have influenced the development of this verb form in a number of Slavic languages. According to the author, the bilingual Slavic-Greek consciousness of the creators of Slavic writing could have influenced the strengthening of these forms in the Russian language. The article analyzes possible connections of the Slavic participles of the present tense with the medial and passive participles of the Greek language in the light of their common origin from the Indo-European participle, as well as the process of development of participles during the restructuring of the voice category and in connection with the development of the aspect category.

Keywords:

participle,category of voice,Slavic languages,passive voice,Indo-European languages,Proto-Slavic language,Russian language,Belarusian language

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