АОРИСТ И ИМПЕPФЕКАТ У ГОВОРИМА МЕТОХИЈСКО-КОСОВСКОГ И СЕВЕРНОШАРПЛАНИНСКОГ АРЕАЛА
AORIST AND IMPERFECT IN VERNACULARS OF KOSOVO-METIHIJA AND NORTH ŠAR MOUNTAINS

Summary/Abstract: This paper analyzes morphological development of simple preterites in the area where vernaculars of Pizred-South Morava types are spoken, i.e. in the southern part of the Metohija basin, and in southern and central parts of the Kosovo basin and the North Šar Mountains vernacular of Sirinić. Three vernaculars of the north Šar Mountains type – Gorani, Podgorani and Sredska – were exposed to the influence of Macedonian of various degrees. The typology and genetic origin of both types of vernaculars involved different morphological evolutions of simple preterites, which is particularly visible in their plural forms. Balkans-type transformations, in which the dominant tendency is simplification of the linguistic system, i.e. associating the aorist with perfective verb forms and associating the imperfect with imperfective verbs, are equally common in all vernaculars of the area in question. A striking difference between the Prizren-South Morava and north Šar Mountains type vernaculars can be seen in their plural forms. Expansion of aorist plural morphemes and highly-stabilized plural morphemes -smo, -ste bring the PrizrenSouth Morava vernaculars closer to the adjacent Kosovo-Resava vernaculars, with which they share many other morphological features (imađaše / imadaše). Stabilization of imperfect morphemes in both preterites (donesomo / donesome, donesote, donesoa) makes the north Šar Mountains vernaculars part of the Macedonian-Bulgarian dialectal area. Vernaculars of these types can clearly be distinguished by the third person singular of simple preterites. Use of the imperfect morpheme (donesoa, imaa / imašoa) is typical of the north Šar Mountains vernaculars. Complete stabilization of aorist formation from perfective verbs and imperfect formation of imperfective verbs and complete coalescence of first and second persons singular in both preterites caused the third person plural to blend with them. In south Metohija vernaculars the imperfect morpheme (prodž’ov, imadav) became common; in most parts where south Kosovo vernacular is spoken the aorist -še (prodž’oše, imašoše / imadaše) became common; although the process of reduction of both -šeе morphemes has begun, the morphological difference in the third person singular in both preterites is still dominant.

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