Aspect and reference time

Borik, Olga 1972- (Author).

Summary: Investigating the temporal structure of language, this text deals with issues in the understanding of tense and aspect proposes a new approach to the main problems in the area, and seeks to establish the universal semantic properties of two important and contentious aspectual categories, perfectivity and imperfectivity.

Record details

ISBN: 0199291292 (pbk.)
ISBN: 9780199291298 (pbk.)
ISBN: 9780199291281 (hbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN: 0199291284 (Cloth)
ISBN: 0191516244 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 9780191516245 (electronic bk.)
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xi, 226 p.) : ill.
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Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.

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General Note:	CatMonthString:jan.13 Multi-User. CatBulkString:jan.10.13
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (p. [215]-221) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Introduction -- Main theories of aspect (1) : the telicity approach -- Perfectivity in Russian in terms of telicity : testing the hypothesis -- Main theories of aspect (2) : the point of view approach -- Reference time -- Russian aspect in terms of reference time.
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Reproduction Note:	Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010.
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