Talk: Verbal Aspect in Istro-Romanian by Fabian Helmrich, Oxford University

A short abstract of the talk:

Through probably centuries of contact with Čakavian, the verbal system in the two Istro-Romanian dialects, Vlåški and Žejånski, has changed profoundly. This presentation will discuss affixes and categories which were borrowed from Čakavian into Istro-Romanian. On the basis of corpus data and my own fieldwork, I shall show how these morphologies map onto eventualities in IR to form aspect categories and illustrate how telicity, culminativity and durativity acted as key parameters in the aspectual specification of Daco-Romance verbs in Istro-Romanian.