Abstract
Phrasal structures form the backbone of any sentence, and they provide key information about, respectively, the constituent structure of a sentence and how its meanings are to be used in achieving a communicative purpose. In addition, languages typically feature several other systems that express meaning through grammatical rather than lexical means. Examples are a tense-aspect system, which expresses information about the timing and temporal structure of events, a mood-modality system, which concerns the epistemic status and opinion of the facts reported in a sentence and a determination system,which provides information about the access status of the referent of nominal phrases.This chapter shows how such grammatical meanings are approached within the framework of Fluid Construction Grammar through a concrete example of the Russian aspect system.
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Gerasymova, K. (2012). Expressing Grammatical Meaning with Morphology: A Case Study for Russian Aspect. In: Steels, L. (eds) Computational Issues in Fluid Construction Grammar. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 7249. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-34120-5_5
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