Aspect and Verbal Action in Albanian - Activity Verbs

Abstract

In this article, we introduce and analyze the morphosyntactic behaviour of activity verbs in standard Albanian. The grouping of verbs by their lexical-semantic meaning deals with the study of the way the development of the action is presented. We refer to verbal action when we analyze and classify the lexical meanings of different verbs, which are grouped or separated by means of word formation. Even in cases where special syntactic constructions are used for the expression of verbal action, these are still a function of their respective lexical meaning. However, they do not deal with the grammatical meanings but with the lexical meanings of these constructions. In the case of aspect, there are grammatical oppositions expressed by grammatical means, and therefore by different forms of the same verb. Aspect in the Albanian language is realized, above all, by the change of tenses, such as between the imperfective and the perfective (aorist), unlike verbal action, which is generally not indicated by means of conjugation. Finally, we will study the meanings related not to individual lexical meaning, but to general lexical meaning. It is this feature that makes verbal action in Albanian an objective category, different and distinguishable from the subjective category of aspect.