Overview

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.

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Author:   Olga Borik (New University of Russia)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Volume:   13
Dimensions:   Width: 16.20cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 24.20cm
Weight:   0.516kg
ISBN:  

9780199291281

ISBN 10:   0199291284
Pages:   240
Publication Date:   31 August 2006
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1: Introduction 2: Main Theories of Aspect, I: The Telicity Approach 3: Perfectivity in Russian in Terms of Telicity: Testing The Hypothesis 4: Main Theories of Aspect, II: The Point of View Approach 5: Reference TIme 6: Russian Aspect in Terms of Reference Time References Index

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extremely lucid and forceful...This book is exceptionally clear and well written...I wish there were more semantic and syntactic texts of this exceptional clarity and reader-friendliness. Roumyana Slabakova, Folia Linguistica

Author Information

Olga Borik is Lecturer at the Department of Foreign Languages and Intercultural Communication at the New University of Russia. After her BA in linguistics at the Moscow State University in 1995 she obtained an MPhil from the University of Tronsø in 1998 and a PhD from the University of Utrecht in 2002.

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