Perfectivity as aspectual definiteness: Time and the event in Russian

This paper seeks to give a unified semantics for perfectivity in Russian within an explicitly decompositional syntactic framework. The aim is to account for the similar behaviour of the perfective class of predicates, despite the differences in the syntactic and semantic behaviour of the prefixes th...

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Published in:	Lingua Vol. 118; no. 11; pp. 1690 - 1716
Main Author:	Ramchand, Gillian Catriona
Format:	Article
Published:	Elsevier B.V. Nov2008
Subjects:	Russian language > Etymology Syntax (Grammar) Comparative linguistics Suffixes & prefixes (Grammar) Linguistics research Tense (Grammar) Verb phrases Topic & comment (Grammar)
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