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(Chapter / Bokkapittel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2008)
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 ...
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2008)
Imperfectivity is cross-linguistically associated with the subinterval property and a modal component induced by the famous ‘imperfective paradox’. These properties arguably hold for both the progressive and habitual-iterative ...
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2007)
In this paper, I argue both empirically and formally that we need an optional relative past in the semantics of the temporal system of Russian. I propose a temporal calculus which can effectively deal with relative past ...
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2006)
The imperfective aspect in Russian competes with the perfective in referring to events whose existence is entailed by the input context. In the first, major part of the paper (sections 1-5) I take a global view on aspectual ...
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2006)
In this paper, I will discuss an irrealis-construction in Russian, which poses non-trivial problems for a compositional analysis of tense, aspect and mood (the categories subsumed under the abbreviation TAM). The past tense ...