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...
| Publicado en: | Lingua Vol. 118; no. 11; pp. 1690 - 1716 |
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Elsevier B.V.
Nov2008
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