10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PERFECTIVENESS»
Discover the use of
perfectiveness in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
perfectiveness and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Cooperating with Written Texts: The Pragmatics and ...
Previous studies As noted by Bennett—Partee (1972); Dowty (1979); and Stump (
1985), inter alia, a sentence in the past progressive, unlike the preterit, does not
necessarily entail perfectiveness.2 Consider, for example, the accomplishment ...
2
Standard Languages and Language Standards – Greek, Past and ...
Their definiteness gives the impression of 'givenness', and 'accessibility' from the
previous discourse, the same impression as is given by their perfectiveness.
Furthermore, their perfectiveness, in addition to the obvious past tense of the ...
Dr Alexandra Georgakopoulou, Professor Michael Silk,
2013
3
Phreno-geology: the progressive creation of man, indicated ...
The incidental and playful action of the organ of Perfectiveness has been
mistaken by all phrenologians for its primitive and essential function. It has been
supposed to be exclusively related to the fine arts. Now, I conceive that the fine
arts are ...
James Stanley Grimes,
1851
4
Adverbs of Degree in Dutch and Related Languages
Bartsch (1976) includes the latter in the term adverbs of degree, but makes a
subdivision into those adverbs that grade the intensity of a process or a state and
those that specify the grade of perfectiveness of the occurrence or existence of a
...
5
A New System of Phrenology
James Stanley Grimes. XI. PERFECTIVENESS, OR IDEALITY. Beautiful! How
beautiful is all this visible world! How glorious in its action and itself! — Byron.
When this organ was first discovered, it was called the organ of Poetry, because it
was ...
James Stanley Grimes,
1839
6
A Spectrum of Lexicography: Papers from AILA, Brussels, 1984
A German speaker, unless he is a professional aspectologist, has by nature not a
very definite idea as to what verbal perfectiveness implies. The explanation that a
perfective verbal action is seen "as a complete whole", as V. Pořίzka used to ...
7
The Semantic Variability of Absolute Constructions
[doesn't entail that the children set up the tents] Although neither progressive
sentences with accomplishment or achievement predicates nor present
participial adjuncts with such predicates have an entailment of perfectiveness, it
is ...
In Hindi, like in Russian, for example, verbal perfectiveness means on principle
one and the same — i.e. complete viewing of the verbal action and the semantic
consequences resulting from this. But due to the way the respective verbal forms
...
9
The Present Tense in Modern Hindi Fiction
In his discussion of perfectiveness and compound verbs, Nespital (1989: 177O
has pointed out that completion of an action and perfective aspect are two
different concepts. In his opinion, a past-tense compound verb combines
completion ...
On the other hand, there are also lexical meanings of verbs that are internally
non-terminated so that they cannot express aspectual perfectiveness and, as a
consequence of this, do not occur in any perfective VE. In Slavic linguistics the ...
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