Abstract Temporal/aspectual morphology often serves as a diagnostic for actional classes. Bantu languages are known their highly developed tense, aspect (and mood) systems. The East Ruvu of Tanzania unusual in that they exhibit decidedly reduced set temporal/aspectual morphemes. This paper contributes to the growing body research on actionality showing despite not being encoded overtly, perfect...

Starting from the relevant points of Croatian aspectual system, we present a basic scheme contrasts between perfective/imperfective opposition in and Pretérito Perfeito/Imperfeito Portuguese analyze narrative texts written by B2 level students, who are native speakers Croatian. Focused on “deviations”, try to identify specificities interlanguage question with regard use past verbal tenses, name...

This paper promotes the hypothesis that central grammatical categories must be analysed as pragmatic rather than semantic entities, in order to explain their seemingly redundant typological distribution. A case is made of the relatively complex English past tense system versus the single Russian past tense, and it is shown how the distinctions within the former system can be analysed in terms o...

Abstract Almost sixty years ago, W.C. van Unnik demonstrated that the participle συµβάλλουσα in Luke 2:19 does not mean “pondering” but Mary was “understanding” heavenly message. The limited reception of his view, especially anglophone literature and translations Bible, stems from misconceptions about lexical definition imperfective aspect , as well a problematic interpretation phrase “to keep ...

In general linguistics, the functions of perfective and imperfective aspect have been thoroughly investigated in domain realis, especially past tense. However, there are languages which exhibit this sort contrast other domains, for example, imperative. The aspectual grams imperative may differ significantly from those documented realis. present paper, I argue that is case Lithuanian. build on s...

• The Perfect introduces a time interval: the “perfect time span” (PTS). • The Right Boundary (RB) of the PTS is set by Tense. • The Left Boundary (LB) of the PTS may be set by “perfect adverbials”. • The lower predicate (event) is predicated of the PTS, either directly or mediated by various devices, most notably operators associated with the Perfective or Imperfective. • When the predicate ha...