perepisyvat'sja

[Edward M Dumanis]

Hmm,

pere-odet'-sja,
pere-uchit'-sja,

and so on.

Edward Dumanis <dumanis at acsu.buffalo.edu>



On Sat, 25 Aug 2001, Alina Israeli wrote:

> >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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