This book investigates the temporal structure of language. It deals with central 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. In doing so it reveals previously unsuspected similarities between Russian and English.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
- 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