Jan Ivar Bjornflaten
List of John Benjamins publications for which Jan Ivar Bjornflaten plays a role.
Article
2019 Reanalysis in the Russian past tense: The gerundial perfect Perspectives on Language Structure and Language Change: Studies in honor of Henning Andersen, Heltoft, Lars, Iván Igartua, Brian D. Joseph, Kirsten Jeppesen Kragh and Lene Schøsler (eds.), pp. 253–270 | Chapter
The large majority of the Slavic languages have in historical times lost the synthetic past tenses of the aorist and the imperfect. These tenses were replaced by a new past tense based on the erstwhile perfect. This transformation created space for new ways of forming a past tense, and one of these… read more