10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PERFECTIVELY»
Discover the use of
perfectively in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
perfectively and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Verbal Aspect in Discourse: Contributions to the Semantics ...
When expressed perfectively they denote either a temporally delimited activity (
Flier 1985; e.g. pocitat'p "to read for a while," prostojat* "to stand for some time"),
or the inception of a state, an achievement (e.g. ponjat'? "to understand, grasp" ...
2
The Semantic Structure of Spanish: Meaning and Grammatical Form
In both sentences we might assume that the situation, which is an event,
terminated. But what is important is that in (70a) the speaker views the event
perfectively, which means the speaker views the situation in its entirety, without
regard to the ...
3
The Tense System in English Relative Clauses: A Corpus-Based ...
In other words, the semantic distinction perfective/imperfective does not coincide
with the morphological distinction non-progressive/progressive present tense.
Unlike Eisterhold, I would argue that a habit may be represented perfectively (cf.
4
The Cambridge Translations of Medieval Philosophical Texts: ...
From these two claims I make the following evident argument: God would not
have seen anything unless he had possessed those things, but to possess them
only perfectively and not in a representational mode would not have sufficed to
have ...
The first step will be to show that the simple form expressing habituality may also
be interpreted perfectively. Then, we show that used to instantiates a complex
aspectual relation, assimilating it to a perfect form. Constructions with would will
be ...
Alda Mari, Claire Beyssade, Fabio Del Prete,
2013
6
Tense-aspect: Between Semantics & Pragmatics : Containing ...
#38 'At that time, I was already 8 months pregnant with my second child' (verb
marked duratively: huái-zhe 'bear'-DUR) (b) Verbs marked perfectively with Verb-
le? #73 'I've finished washing the clothes' #68 'I have memorized half of the Three
...
7
Child Second Language Acquisition: A Bi-directional Study of ...
4 Brinton (1988) disagrees with the claim that habituality is a subclass of
imperfectivity because habitual situations can also be viewed perfectively, i.e. as
a whole, without considering their internal structure. This claim is supported by
the ...
8
Midwest Studies in Philosophy, Truth and its Deformities
States cannot be, so to speak, perfectively instantiated; they cannot be done.2 To
say that someone was tall, ... an object can be instantiated perfectively, like
walking, digesting, and growing; or it is a state, like believing, desiring, and being
tall.
Peter A. French, Howard Wettstein,
2009
9
Analogy, Levelling, Markedness: Principles of Change in ...
However, we have some reservations as to the claim that perfectively viewed
events may not contain other events of the same type (p. 1 56). This conflicts with
the generally admitted property of downward entailment possessed by atelic
events ...
10
Tense and Aspect in Modern Colloquial Japanese
Such a subjective distinction in English must be considered either neutralized or
irrelevant. An English sentence such as “I read a novel last night” can be said
either perfectively or imperfectively in Russian depending upon how the action is
...
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PERFECTIVELY»
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perfectively is used in the context of the following news items.
Fan Casting - Inhumans
NPH just fits the description of Triton, i.e, tall, handsome and of course perfectively slim. If Marvel really must cast a Triton, it has to be Neil and ... «moviepilot.com, Jun 15»
New education commissioner on Common Core and evaluations
She said "to be perfectly honest," not "to be perfectively honest." Also, because of an editor's error, it gave her official start date as June 6, rather ... «Capital New York, May 15»
Indian women's team announced for FIH HWL Semifinal
"The team is doing very well and improving perfectively. We have pointed out mistakes and loopholes in the previous matches and we are ... «Times of India, May 15»
The growing hazards in the hunt for yield
“History is littered with examples of unsustainable asset price rises emerging on the back of perfectively justifiable increases in prices,” Lowe ... «Business Spectator, May 15»
What Happened The Last Time Chevron Had A 4% Yield? (CVX)
Now obviously history isn't perfectively indicative of the future. However, it can be instructive with regard to how you think about the investing ... «Seeking Alpha, Feb 15»
Hackney beaten by Belzise Park despite treble from Chamberlain
Hackney, riled by a sense of injustice, began to play smart rugby and a perfectively executed driving maul from their forwards enabled ... «Hackney Gazette, Jan 15»
J. Edgar Hoover and the Destruction of our Democratic values and …
... a time when the anti-war activists had run completely out of options, surely represented a fortuitous set of circumstances, perfectively ripe and ... «OpEdNews, Feb 14»
5 Skin Tips to Take You From Summer Into Fall
I recommend exfoliating at night, whether using a scrub made of perfectively round, synthetic beads to manually exfoliate or a serum loaded ... «Huffington Post, Oct 13»
Unpacking The Meaning Of 'Rationing': A Response To Dowd And …
... would obtain in perfectively price-competitive markets that allocate resources on the basis of price and the potential recipients' ability to pay. «Health Affairs, Jun 13»
Series 7 Mysteries: Hide
After all, at the end when the Doctor asks her what she can detect from Clara, she passes it by quickly saying she's just a perfectively normal girl ... «Doctor Who TV, Apr 13»