In this paper we discuss the inferences triggered by perfective accomplishments and two verbal prefixes (the completive prefix doand the iterative prefix pere-) in Russian. Contrary to most works that attempt to analyze these inferences as presuppositions, we show that there is no ground for such a claim and argue that the inferences discussed here are better analyzed in terms of entailments an...

In the aspectual linguistic literature, a connection between imperfective aspect and modality/subjectivity is quite often mentioned. This article investigates a possible counterargument to this connection by analyzing modal readings of tenses in Russian. Two types of uses of tenses are described: (1) temporal reading of the tense with a modal inference and (2) strictly modal reading of the tens...

This paper argues that the distribution of the two Chinese aspectual auxiliaries -Ie and -zhe in the locative inversion construction is determined by the semantics of the event, in particular the interaction of lexical aspect (telicity and stativity) and agentivity. The -le/-zhe alternation shows a gradient effect similar to the selection of perfective auxiliaries in Romance and Germanic (Sorac...

In the present analysis, we argue that the canonical difference between Moroccan Arabic triliteral nouns and verbs can be explained by invoking the active role of an alignment and a sonority condition constraint. We attempt to clarify the issue by arguing that an examination of the perfective inflectional paradigm of sound triliteral verbs can provide hints about the difference in behavior exhi...

Software maintenance is the most expensive stage of the software life cycle. However, most software organizations do not use any methodology for maintenance, although they do use it for new developments. In this article, a methodology for managing the software maintenance process is presented. The methodology defines clearly and rigorously all the activities and tasks to be executed during the ...

Lattice strain plays a crucial role on the properties of nanoparticles. Although the effect of lattice strain on nanoparticles has been widely studied in experimental measurements and calculations, its physical mechanism from the perfective of bond identities is still poorly understood. Herein we put forward an analytical solution of the size effect and external stimuli such as pressure and tem...

The expert intelligent system is introduced to develop hardware fault detection for any computer system. Different hardware system or electronics devices usually face application fault as well as hardware fault. This application oriented formal reasoning applies to determine the problem in computer system. This paper emphasizes an automated system that accepts the defects of any system and then...

Two major mechanisms of encoding telicity across languages are either marking the object as exhaustively countable or measurable, or utilizing a specific prefix on the verbal form. English predominantly uses the first mechanism, while Russian mostly utilizes the second. The learning task of an English speaker acquiring Russian, then, is two-fold: to learn each individual verb with its subset of...

Wu(1994) listed ten words as CFs’ markers in Chinese, they are 早 (early) , 了 (perfect/perfective marker), 要不是/要不然 (had it not been the case), 没(didn’t), 就好了 (would have been great if only),还以为(had thought), 原来应该(should have been), ...的 话 (in the case), 真的 (really). However, according to our definitions, none of them are dedicated CFs markers but only CFE 1 markers except要不是. Several observation...

• 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...