Aspect and boundedness in English and Romanian

This paper deals with the interaction of verbal aspect and the type of verb situation (Aktionsart) by analyzing the influence of semantic characteristics such as stativity, duration and telicity on aspect in English and Romanian. The paper argues that aspect is related to boundedness in the sense th...

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Main Authors: Predrag Novakov, Mihaela Lazović
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Editura Universitatii din Bucuresti 2009-01-01
Series:Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics
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Online Access:http://bwpl.unibuc.ro/index.pl/aspect_and_boundedness_in_english_and_romanian