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.
ISBN: | 9780199291281 |
Publication date: | 31st August 2006 |
Author: | Olga New University of Russia Borik |
Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
Format: | Hardback |
Pagination: | 240 pages |
Series: | Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics |
Genres: |
Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics Grammar, syntax and morphology |