perepisyvat'sja

[Alina Israeli]

>Hmm,
>
>pere-odet'-sja,
>pere-uchit'-sja,
>
>and so on.

Not a circumfix. Same with za- -sja: zaboltat'sja, zagovorit'sja,
zaspat'sja, zashivat'sja, even zazhit'sja but not *zasmejat'sja*. There are
also do- -sja, raz- -sja and a few others (dogovorit'sja as in "Ty u menja
dogovorish'sja!" meaning 'by talking you'll get into trouble' as opposed to
the obvious "My dogovorilis' vstretit'sja").

>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"?

Po-, but not begin, rather 'for a short time': my poperepisyvalis' s
polgoda i brosili.

>I wonder then why perekidyvat'sia slovechkami is different?
>On perekinulsia  S NIMI - this is the only requiered part - dvumia -
>tremia slovechkami...

I think because 'one word, or one glance would do it', while one letter
wouldn't:

Oni peregljanulis' - One glance was exchanged

Maybe if we had [*perepisnut'sja] we could have had an exchange by one
letter, but clearly to classify as "correspond" more than one exchange back
and forth has to take place.

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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