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Verbal aspect in discourse : contributions to the semantics of time and temporal perspective in slavic and non-slavic languages /

In the light of growing insights into the universal temporal-semantic nature of aspectual distinctions, today's aspectology has broadened its attention from restrictedly event-defining functions of aspect on the sentence level towards its primary perspectival functions on the discourse/situatio...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Corporate Author: World Congress for Soviet and East European Studies
Other Authors: Thelin, Nils B.
Format: Electronic Conference Proceeding eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia, PA : John Benjamins, 1990.
Series:Pragmatics & beyond ; new ser., 5.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Verbal aspects in discourse : on the state of the art ; On the concept of time : prolegomena to a theory of aspect and tense in narrative discourse / Nils B. Thelin
  • The functional evolution of aspect in Russian / Kyril T. Holden
  • Discourse functions of tense-aspect in French : dynamic synchrony / Linda R. Waugh
  • Notes on the "metaphysics" of Russian aspect / Boris Gasparov
  • Verbal aspect, discourse saliency, and the so-called "perfect of result" in modern Russian / Catherine V. Chvany
  • Discourse analysis of aorist and imperfect in Bulgarian and French / Jean-Pierre Desclés & Zlatka Guentchéva
  • Narrative context and Russian aspect / Grace E. Fielder
  • Temporal and semantic factors affecting Russian aspect choice in questions / Patricia R. Chaput
  • Russian aspect in questions : information and invariance in discourse / Peter T. Merrill.