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Building Up Aspect: A study of aspect and related categories in Bulgarian, with parallels in English and French

Building Up Aspect: A study of aspect and related categories in Bulgarian, with parallels in English and French

Stambolieva, Maria
Bernhardt, Karl
Davis, Graeme

Paperback

Series: Contemporary Studies in Descriptive Linguistics, Book 6

Literary CriticismGrammar & Style

ISBN10: 3039105582
ISBN13: 9783039105588
Publisher: Peter Lang Uk
Published: Mar 28 2008
Pages: 248
Weight: 0.74
Height: 0.52 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
This book addresses the problems of the nature of the category of aspect, its formal expression and its relation to Action modes, to the Aorist/Imperfect and Perfect/Non-Perfect distinctions. The discussion is largely based on data from Bulgarian - a Slavonic language where aspect as a grammatical category systematically coexists not only with verbal prefixation, but also with temporal boundedness, correlation and, in the nominal sphere, definiteness. Cross-language parallels with English and French data and the mapping of Bulgarian structures to notions drawn from the western tradition of aspectual study result in the outline of a framework for an integrated study of the expression of aspectuality in languages belonging to different language groups. Refuting existing views of aspect as a compensatory phenomenon for nominal definiteness, the book presents arguments in favour of a systematic relation between verbal prefixation and NP quantification in Slavonic languages and of a compositional, syntactic dimension of aspectual analysis.

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