perepisyvat'sja

[Vladimir Bilenkin]

How about <spisat'sia>?  Like in: Ya spisalsia s professorom Goscilo po voprosu
svoego uchastiia v yeyo "paneli."

Vladimir Bilenkin,
NCSU


Alina Israeli wrote:

> >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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