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On Accumulating and Having IT All

Perfectivity, Prefixes and Bare Arguments

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Perspectives on Aspect

Part of the book series: Studies in Theoretical Psycholinguistics ((SITP,volume 32))

Abstract

The main hypothesis to be investigated is that the distinction between grammatical aspect and t the semantic classification of verbal predicates into eventuality types (events, processes and states) is encoded by distinct parts of verbal morphology in Slavic languages. The key empirical evidence is drawn from the influence of verbal morphology on the interpretation of certain bare plural and mass arguments.

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Filip, H. (2005). On Accumulating and Having IT All. In: Verkuyl, H.J., de Swart, H., van Hout, A. (eds) Perspectives on Aspect. Studies in Theoretical Psycholinguistics, vol 32. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-3232-3_7

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