Abstract The focus of the present study is relation between metaphor and aspect: are certain grammatical forms more prone to be used metaphorically? We approach this issue through a puzzling case Russian aspectual triplets. based on distributions unprefixed imperfective verb gruzit’ (IPFV1) ‘load’, its perfective counterparts (PFVs) prefixed secondary imperfectives (IPFV2s) with prefixes na- , ...

We explore the typological question of what interpretation grammatical perfectivity is, and how it connects to related aktionsartal notion boundedness/telicity on one hand, tense category Past other. report a comparative experimental paradigm past accomplishment sentences in Russian, Spanish English respectively, which we use an online visual world -- comparing looks ongoing representation (OE)...

German and French football language display tense-aspect-mood (TAM) forms which differ from the TAM use in other genres. In talk, present indicative may replace pluperfect subjunctive. reports of matches, imperfective past occur instead a perfective tense-aspect form. We argue that two phenomena share functional core are licensed same way, is direct result genre they in. More precisely, match a...

Coercion effects, including aspectual ones, appear to indicate a modular grammatical architecture, in which the process of composition may add meanings absent in the syntax in order to ensure that certain functors, e.g., the progressive operator, receive suitable arguments (Herweg 1991, Jackendoff 1997, De Swart 1998). In this paper, coercion effects are instead taken as evidence for the existe...

It is well known fact that a country's economic growth leans on its natural resources. But the support of environmental capacity stands as back up in the operation of country's economic growth. In order to study the inherent relationship between the economic profit and environmental pollution, we are putting forward a new practice in this research area. Also numerous strategies have been set up...

The present study examines the linguistic and extra-linguistic factors influencing variation in the elision of the voiced bilabial stop /b/ in intervocalic position by native Spanish speakers of Caracas, Venezuela. The corpus for this study consists of 36 sociolinguistic interviews evenly distributed by sex, three socio-economic levels, and three age groups. A total of 1800 tokens (50 per speak...

The goals of this paper are threefold: First, to review some recent syntactic accounts of cross-linguistic differences in the expression of telicity in Slavic vs. Germanic languages. Second, I will argue that the parametric variation in the encoding of telicity cannot be based on a unidirectional specifier head agreement between the verbal functional head linked to the telicity of the VP and th...