Verbs

Abstract

This chapter addresses the verbal morphology of turkisms in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Bosnian and Bulgarian and where the verb falls in borrowing hierarchies. Verbal prefixes and Aktionsarten are discussed in detail for Bosnian and, to a limited extent, for Bulgarian. The chapter also looks at whether Turkish voice (diathetical) suffixes (causative, passive, reciprocal) were transparent to eighteenth-century Bulgarians.