This study constitutes an exploratory analysis of the grammaticalization cline anar (‘to go’) + infinitive in Catalan to express perfective past (e.g., va arribar ‘s/he arrived’). Our research interest primarily lies diachronically tracing evolution this grammatical change, which appears be unprecedented other Romance languages Spanish, French), construction has instead led expression a near an...

This article reviews eight TAM (Tense/Aspect/Mood) markers of Turkish regarding their pragmatic functions. Its main argument is that three aspectuo-temporal situations and nominal predication present an environment where multiple compete for expression the choice marker depends on pragmatics. Perfective past viewpoint has four competing markers: mIştI, DI, mIş mIştIr. mIştI DI contrast in -mIşt...

Contemporary public opinion has come to assume that we live in the post-truth era, which judgments on most relevant realities of human life have been left hands mere emotions. In such a context, it is very opportune redirect our gaze toward concept truth, order help adequately ground primordial reality as personal being. Furthermore, this object present research, following thought St. Thomas Aq...

The presented article deals with the translation of verbs perception from French into Slovak in novel Passing Timeby M. Butor. focus, particular, is on numerous prefix equivalents these non-prefixed verbs. main goal analysis their meanings. We will observe how prefix, addition to changing imperfect form perfect one, modifies meaning basic verb and thus fulfils its lexical-perfective function. a...

Based on the analysis of texts collected in 1930s Latvia and Estonia, this paper provides a description semantics verbal modifiers, i.e., prefixes (preverbs) particles, Latvian Romani. The system modifiers Romani is an innovation evolved under Slavic Baltic influence. Most preverbs are instances MAT-borrowing from Baltic, whereas verb particles PATborrowing, modelled after system. argues that e...

The CASK method (Computer-aided Acquisition of Semantic Knowledge) is being used at CELTA with the SEMANA (SEMantic ANAlyser) software, which was especially designed for this purpose. We use the notation of semantic feature structures as a meta-language for describing the category of aspect in Polish regardless of its pertaining to various levels of expression (morphological, syntactical or lex...

Malcolm Ross's new theory of early Austronesian phylogeny is examined. The author describes evidence that *–en served to mark verbs in undergoer voice, patient subject in a language ancestral to Puyuma, as well as evidence that * marks undergoer voice, patient subject perfective in one sociolect of Nanwang Puyuma. This evidence falsifies the claim that Puyuma reflects an early Austronesian ...

This paper revisits four clitics of Pagu (a West-Papuan language spoken in North Halmahera, Indonesia) those that have been described as Tense and Aspect markers (Wimbish 1991): -oka, -ou -osi, -uli. The first one is considered a tense marker for ‘non-future’ time, while the other three are aspect ‘perfective’, ‘imperfective’, ‘repetitive’ respectively. Following metatypy approach (Ross 2006; 2...

The article addresses verbal aspect in the acquisition of Latvian as a foreign language. textbooks both and other languages, well Japanese learners’ writings are analysed to explore this topic. main issue is use verbs expressing aspectual opposition perfective / imperfective, inchoative stative, Aktionsart prefixed verbs. Verbal an implicit category. It one few categories described grammars but...

The theoretical starting point of our considerations is Smith's theory of aspect (Smith 1991). We apply her theoretical framework to German { a language without any as-pectual markers { which is a language she does not investigate. In particular, we try to shed more light on the eeects aspect can have on discourse structure and show how English and German behave diierently in this respect. Smit...