MORPHOLOGICAL STRUCTURE OF THIRD CONJUGATION VERBS

Abstract

This study aims to present and substantiate morpheme segmentation models of third conjugation verbs. In order to implement this task, the morphemes indicating the grammatical meanings of the verbs belonging to the studied formal class should be described. This brings to the fore the question of the coincidence of the aorist and the imperfect morphemes. It’s no accident that some linguists note that this coincidence is an obstacle to “distinguishing the two grammatical meanings”, which “suggests that we must think of a new morphology for these verbs” (Kutsarov 2011: 145). On the other hand, the verb bases for the third conjugation are formed with the help of different morphemes (compare: gled-a, pat-uva, kaz-va). In view of this, an attempt has been made to classify the bases.