Studia Slavica
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Volume 69: Issue 2
On the verbal aspect in Polish descriptive grammars The Case of Grappin’s Grammaire de la Langue Polonaise
Author:
Péter Pátrovics Institute of Slavic and Baltic Studies, Eötvös Loránd University, Múzeum körút 4/D, 1088 Budapest, Hungary

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Pages:
207–215
Online Publication Date:
07 Feb 2025
Publication Date:
07 Feb 2025
Article Category:
Research Article
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1556/060.2024.00176
Keywords:
word-formation in Polish; Polish prefixes; Polish suffixes; Polish grammar; Aktionsart or action type in Polish; aspect and aspectuality in Polish
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In the present paper, the aspect-related part of a long-forgotten Polish descriptive grammar written in French will be investigated. In the light of our historical knowledge, this work by Henri Grappin, professor of Slavic linguistics at École nationale des langues orientales vivantes can be thought-provoking both in terms of the date (1942) and place of its publication (Paris). The part of Grappin’s grammar examined in this paper, which deals with the Polish verbal aspect and its formal exponents, accounts for about 13% of the entire work. The method used by the author, in accordance with which he first reviews the means of verb formation (mainly prefixes and suffixes) and the phonetic alternations taking place during this process, can be considered particularly appropriate from the point of view of language learning. An overview of the meanings of prefixes and suffixes and the presentation of their derivatives formed with base verbs (simplicia) provide a suitable basis for a more detailed description of the Polish aspect system in chapter 22. By talking about the semantic value of prefixes and suffixes, Grappin draws attention to the fact that these morphemes not only have an aspect-marking function, but can also enrich base verbs with various additional nuances of meaning. Grappin does not yet speak here of concepts known in contemporary aspectology, such as boundedness or telicity, but the dual function of prefixes, the difference between aspect and Aktionsart (action mode), perhaps following Agrell’s dissertation, appears clearly in the grammar. In the section on prefixes, it is important to highlight the attention paid to the prefix po-, it seems to be a valid recognition even today that po- is the most homonymous prefix of the Polish language. In the subsection on verbs of motion, Grappin correctly points out the complex relationship between definiteness and indefiniteness as well as aspect, which can be the source of many mistakes for students of Polish as a foreign language. The author deals with iterative, augmentative, delimitative, perdurative and distributive verbs under other names in separate subsections, and points out the essentially conative meaning of imperfective verbs and the resultative meaning of perfective verbs. Although the work under investigation is hardly ever cited in the relevant literature on the topic, its part dealing with the verbal aspect in Polish contains valuable linguistic data that on the one hand may be of interest to aspectologists of our time, and on the other can be utilized in teaching Polish as a foreign language.

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