The perfective imperfect in the Glagolitic Lectionary and in the older Croatian literature

The perfective imperfect in the Glagolitic Lectionary and in the older Croatian literature This paper compares the occurrence and the syntactic-stylistic functionality of the category of the perfective imperfect (PI) in the Croatico-Glagolitic Lectionary and in the fragments of the translated and orignal mediaeval and older Croatian literature. The author concludes that the PI category functions on the one hand as a stylem of the Cyrillo-Methodian literary school, and on the other hand, independentely of the possible influences of this tradition, as a stylistically marked expression of the vernacular language, primarily that of the Chakavian literature