What we do in the shadows of the pear tree: Tense switching in Shughni Pear Stories

Maksim Melenchenko

doi:10.30842/30346800.2026.2.1.5

Авторы

М. Г. Меленченко Национальный исследовательский университет «Высшая школа экономики» Автор https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9040-2318

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.30842/30346800.2026.2.1.5

Ключевые слова:

нарратив, переключение времен, Фильм о грушах, шугнанский язык, памирские языки

Аннотация

Статья посвящена исследованию нарративных функций глагольных форм в шугнанском языке на материале пересказов «Фильма о грушах». Шугнанский — язык с компактной видовременной системой, в которой есть эвиденциальность, но отсутствует грамматикализованный аспект. Основной нарративной формой в пересказах большинства информантов оказалась форма презенса. Формы претерита и перфекта в нарративах используются для описания прошедших событий, сохраняя эвиденциальный контраст, а переключения с прошедших времен на форму презенса (иногда с дополнительным лексическим маркером) могут обозначать имперфективность клаузы.

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