| Popis: |
In parallel with an aorist still in use (passatu landanu), Corsican has a periphrastic perfect (passatu quancianu) consisting of an auxiliary followed by a past participle. The auxiliary is variable since either ave (have) or esse (be) can be selected, primarily on the basis of thematic roles. The past participle is variable too since it alternates between a short form and a long one according to aspectual/modal criteria. This double variation obtains both within simple intransitive verbs and reflexive ones. Drawing on authentic extracts from Corsican corpora we shall take up the issue of this double variation in each of the domains concerned, before the question of a possible correlation between the two variations is addressed. |
