Slovak zvyknúť₂ An Auxiliary of Habituality

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Authors
Publication date 2026
Host editors
  • Jaap Kamphuis
  • Egbert Fortuin
  • Simeon Dekker
Book title The Slavic Verb
Book subtitle Part 2: Language-Specific Perspectives
ISBN
  • 9789004731608
ISBN (electronic)
  • 9789004731622
Series Studies in Slavic and General Linguistics
Chapter 7
Pages (from-to) 154–166
Number of pages 12
Publisher Leiden: Brill
Organisations
  • Faculty of Humanities (FGw) - Amsterdam Institute for Humanities Research (AIHR) - Amsterdam Center for Language and Communication (ACLC)
Abstract
Recent comparative research (Genis, Barentsen et al. 2021) into expressions of habituality in Slavic languages has noted a Slovak construction that has not yet been fully researched nor has corpus data been gathered. We argue that the verb zvyknúť, explicitly without reflexive pronoun si in the construction with an infinitive functions as an imperfective auxiliary of habituality; as such it is quite special amongst Slavic languages, especially as it is also lacking in related Czech. This contribution is an account of the corpus data gathered about this otherwise undescribed auxiliary: the construction it appears in, its grammaticalization, its place and status in contemporary Slovak. The data gathered will also serve to further our research into expressions of habituality in a wider Slavic context.
Document type Chapter
Note This paper is part of the research project "Habituality" of the research group Comparative Slavic Verbal Aspect of the Amsterdam Center for Language and Communication - ACLC of the University of Amsterdam.
Language English
Published at
https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004731622_008 (Final published version)
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