VID AND NACRbTANIE IN THE SLAVONIC GRAMMATICAL TERMINOLOGY

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Needless to say, the category of aspect is of great importance especially in the verbal systems of the Slavonic languages. This term is obviously a "calque" of an Old Slavonic word vid, which in turn corresponds to the Greek ειδοζ in the works of the Alexandrian grammarians. This word is said to have appeared first in a Old Church Slavonic translation of a grammatical tractatus "On the Eight Parts of Speech", the oldest manuscript of which is a Serbian reduction of the 14th century. Although this tractatus is formerly believed to have been written by St. John of Damascus (Ioan Damaskin) in the 8th century, a doubt was subsequently cast upon its authorship and now it is commonly referred as "Pseudo-Damascene". However, as far as we learn from the definition of vid, or ειδοζ as well, in the above mentioned Greek and Old Church Slavonic works, it should be understood, that originally it was a term concerning word derivation in general and had nothing to do with gramnmar. It is quite understandable, therefore, that the term is applied not only to the derivation of verbs, but also to that of nouns. For example, in Pseudo-Damascene the category of vid of nouns is defined as follows:
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