Aspect as a communicative category. Evidence from English, Russian and French

Cross Language Retrieval - English/Russian/French

Russian Aspect as Bidirectional Optimization

Notions like markedness, competition, underspecification, context sensitivity and pragmatic implicatures play an important role in traditional Slavic aspectology. I propose in this paper to give these somewhat vague theoretical constructs a more explicit status within the framework of bidirectional optimality theory (BiOT), introduced in (Blutner 1998, 2000). Blutner’s BiOT can merge these elem...

The communicative contexts of grammatical aspect use in English.

In many of the world's languages grammatical aspect is used to indicate how events unfold over time. In English, activities that are ongoing can be distinguished from those that are completed using the morphological marker -ing. Using naturalistic observations of two children in their third year of life, we quantify the availability and reliability of the imperfective form in the communicative ...

The communicative potential of verbs of “away-from” motion in English, German and Russian

This paper proposes a model for describing lexical semantics within systemic-functional theory. Formal approaches to lexical semantics assume that words have meanings which exist independently from communication and are represented by means of (semi-) formal definitions. Functional approaches treat language as a tool for social interaction and, in the case of lexical semantics, assume that lexi...

the person as a grammatical category in russian language

the verb in russian language is a part of speech which involves several grammatical features. regarding methods of expressing the person, we can classify it in two major groups: personal verbs and non-personal verbs. the difference of these two groups is in their expression and inexpression of the person as a grammatical category. the purpose of this research is to consider ways of declaring th...