perepisyvat'sja

[Alina Israeli]

>I don't think I've ever seen, nor have I ever run into a context for, a
>perfective of PEREPISYVAT'SJA.  But it's not on Wade's (2/d edition, pp.
>270-71) list of imperfective-only verbs.  (He doesn't lay claim to
>presenting an exhaustive list, but I'd have thought it would have been
>there.)
>
>Is there such a perfective?

No there isn't.

Pere- -sja is a circumfix, that is we get the intended meaning by attaching
pere- and -sja simultaneously. The reason it has no perfective is that the
action of "perepisyvat'sja" includes a multitudes of actions: I write, you
write, I write, you write etc. All these pere- -sja verb require
alternations of participants' actions.

Alina

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Alina Israeli
LFS, American University                phone:  (202) 885-2387
4400 Mass. Ave., NW                     fax:    (202) 885-1076
Washington, DC 20016

aisrael at american.edu

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