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 |