Time and the event: The semantics of Russian prefixes

In this paper, I draw on data from prefixation in Russian to argue for a basic distinction between event structure and temporal struc- ture. I present a linguistic semantics of verb and argument structure interpretation on the one hand, and a formal semantic implementa- tion of 'telicity'...

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Main Author: Gillian Ramchand
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Septentrio Academic Publishing 2005-03-01
Series:Nordlyd: Tromsø University Working Papers on Language & Linguistics
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Online Access:https://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/nordlyd/article/view/72