perepisyvat'sja

[ewb2 at CORNELL.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. ...
> >
> >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.
>
Could one add za- or ras- before it to mean "begin to perepisyvat'sja"
or po- or pro- meaning "to do it for a certain time"?
Wayles Browne

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