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Record Nr.

UNINA9910812892803321

Autore

Borik Olga <1972->

Titolo

Aspect and reference time / / Olga Borik

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford : , : Oxford University Press, UK, , 2006

ISBN

1-280-87020-6

0-19-151624-4

1-4294-7110-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xi, 226 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics ; ; v.No. 13

Disciplina

415

491.75

Soggetti

Russian language

Russian language - Aspect

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Contents; General Preface; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; 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 (2): The point of view approach; 5 Reference time; 6 Russian aspect in terms of Reference time; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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.