Michiel de Vaan, "The participle allomorphs in Buzuku’s Old Albanian"
27. Jän 2026
Michiel de Vaan
Departement Altertumswissenschaften, Universität Basel &
Département des sciences de l'antiquité, Université de Genève
The participle allomorphs in Buzuku’s Old Albanian
The so-called participle of Albanian is an uninflected verbal derivative with multiple functions (perfect, infinitive, gerund, and others). In Modern Albanian and in most texts after 1600, each verb has only a single participle, but in Buzuku's priests' manual of 1555, a number of vocalic verb stems show up to three different suffixes in competition for the same function. The aim of this talk, which presents a snapshot of work in progress, is to determine some of the formal and functional factors behind the apparently chaotic distribution of the participle allomorphs in Buzuku's Old Albanian.
Gemeinsame Veranstaltung mit dem Institut für Iranistik der ÖAW.
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