10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PERFECTIVITY»
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perfectivity in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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1
Syntax: An Introduction
The aspectual dimension of perfectivity involves two features that most often
coincide, but can also be dissociated: • temporal boundaries: sharp vs. diffuse; •
duration: short vs. long. These two features can be already observed in the
inherent ...
2
Interfaces with English Aspect: Diachronic and Empirical Studies
3.3 Perfectivity So far, no reference has been made to the possible
grammaticalisation of a an as- pectual function for do, as questioned in Chapter 1
. Later uses seem to reveal a perfective aspectual function, as suggested by
Denison (1985; ...
3
Toward a Typology of European Languages
Dahl (1985: 72) writes: "In the case of PFV:IPFV [aspectual perfectivity/
imperfectivity], ... it seems rather to be a typical situation that even in individual
languages, we cannot choose one member of the opposition as being clearly
unmarked.
Johannes Bechert, Giuliano Bernini, Claude Buridant, 1990
4
Aspect: An Introduction to the Study of Verbal Aspect and ...
The distinction between perfectivity and imperfectivity has already been outlined,
in section o.1: perfectivity indicates the view of a situation as a single whole,
without distinction of the various separate phases that make up that situation ;
while ...
5
The Limits of Syntactic Variation
Case study: Perfectivity marking in Russian Another case study that we will
examine in some detail is the situation of overt perfectivity marking in a language
like Russian. It is traditionally claimed that while Russian has the
morphosyntactic ...
6
The Composition of Meaning: From Lexeme to Discourse
'VP-internal subject' account. What makes the Perfectivity Account superior,
however, is that it accommodates the behavior of all kinds of directionally
bounded complex PPs and verbal afhxoids without a single additional condition (
Abraham ...
Alice G. B. ter Meulen, Werner Abraham, 2004
7
On Germanic Linguistics: Issues and Methods
It sought first to establish to what extent it is possible to express perfectivity in
German, and then to determine what types of expressions assume this function.
For this purpose a corpus of some 1000 Serbo-Croatian prefixed perfective verbs
...
Irmengard Rauch, Gerald F. Carr, Robert L. Kyes, 1992
8
Aspect in English: A `Common-Sense' View of the Interplay ...
to other verbs which lack it - can easily be exemplified through the comparison
between a sentence like (74), which explicates perfectivity, and (100a) below,
which explicates imperfectivity. However, it could hardly be said of a verb like
threw ...
9
Morphologie: Ein Internationales Handbuch Zur Flexion und ...
Thus, as- pect (perfectivity) and Aktionsart (telicity) are independent notions (cf.
Declerck 1979 and Depraetere 1995, who refer to the se- mantic notion of
perfectivity as boundedness). This was shown for French by Garey (1957) with
the ...
G. E. Booij, Christian Lehmann, Joachim Mugdan, 2004
10
A University Course in English Grammar
4 These effects are exploited in discourse 5 Perfectivity is not realised
unambiguously in English by verbal forms, but must be interpreted from the
whole clause. 42.1 The meaning of aspect While tense primarily relates the event
to speech time ...
Angela Downing, Philip Locke, 2002
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