Aspect And Reference Time Hardcover
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Olga Borik
Book Description
Investigating the temporal structure of language, this text deals with issues in the understanding of tense and aspect, proposes a new approach to the main problems in the area, and seeks to establish the universal semantic properties of two important and contentious aspectual categories, perfectivity and imperfectivity.
ISBN-13
9780199291281
Language
English
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Publication Date
09-11-2006
Number of Pages
240
About the Author
Olga Borik is Lecturer at the Department of Foreign Languages and Intercultural Communication at the New University of Russia. After her BA in linguistics at the Moscow State University in 1995 she obtained an MPhil from the University of Tronso in 1998 and a PhD from the University of Utrecht in 2002.
Editorial Review
extremely lucid and forceful...This book is exceptionally clear and well written...I wish there were more semantic and syntactic texts of this exceptional clarity and reader-friendliness. * Roumyana Slabakova, Folia Linguistica