Tempo e aspetto nella narrazione in ceco in una prospettiva diacronica François Esvan University of Naples L'Orientale, Italy This is a section of Le lingue slave tra struttura e uso(DOI: 10.36253/978-88-6453-328-5) by Julija Nikolaeva, Lucyna Gebert, Valentina Benigni Firenze University Press Firenze 2016 https://doi.org/10.36253/978-88-6453-328-5.06

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Regarding the historical present in Czech narrative the author proposes to distinguish three main modes: (i) the narrative present, which follows the same aspectual opposition system of the past tense narration mode; (ii) the tabular present, which neutralizes the aspectual opposition in favour of the imperfective aspect; (iii) the complementary distribution, which alternates past perfective and present imperfective. This assumption allows to reconsider the hypothesis of a trend to neutralize aspectual opposition in the historical present in Czech (Bondarko 1958).

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