The Serbo-Croatian Verb

Abstract

Every Serbo-Croatian verb form' consists of the constituents listed in Table 1.2 While prefixes are optional, every verb form has a stem and at least one inflectional element. The stem consists of at least a root.3 Every verb paradigm has a thematic vowel in some or all of its forms, though some forms of some paradigms are without this. The remaining stem constituents are optional. The constituents always occur in the order given in Table 1. A given Serbo-Croatian verb has the following sets of forms, which constitute