Imperfective marking in present tense

[Johanna Nichols]

Bulgarian does this, forming the present tense from both perfective and
imperfective verbs.  The perfective present is mostly used in non-main
clauses.  I'm not a Bulgarianist, but reference grammars of Bulgarian
should give you some basic information, or check with your friendly local
Slavic department.

Johanna Nichols


Kazuha Watanabe wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I am looking for a language which has both plain present tense form and
distinctively marked imperfective aspect form (not progressive).  All the
> languages I know seem to either use imperfective only in the past
tense(Romance, for example) or mark imperfective in the present tense but
> do not have a separate plain present tense form (Slavic, for example).
>
> Thank you very much!
>
>
> Kazuha Watanabe
>



-- 
Johanna Nichols
Professor, Slavic Languages and Affiliate Professor, Linguistics
Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, mailcode 2979
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720
ph  510-642-1097          fax  510-642-6220






-- 
Johanna Nichols
Professor, Slavic Languages and Affiliate Professor, Linguistics
Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, mailcode 2979
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720
ph  510-642-1097          fax  510-642-6220