This work addresses the complexities involved in aspectual composition by presenting a cognitively motivated analysis that makes use of active event representations. Verbs, arguments and temporal modiiers are characterized in terms of the conceptual features they impose or contribute to this framework, which employs representations of both motor-schematic and image-schematic change. By accommod...

The relationship between future time and tense forms in Russian is complex. traditionally attributed to the certain cases do not refer time. Those have been previously presented as an inventory representing a plausible cognitive model and/or sphere of modality. In this article, we suggest data-driven approach applied spectrum meanings forms. We analyzed corpus data discovered that 44% perfectiv...

In this paper we address the common claim that perfective verbs presuppose the initial phase (or a process part) of events denoted by them, and assert their final phase (or a culmination part), while the meaning of imperfective verbs lacks both these components. Different formulations of this claim have been proposed by Padučeva (1996, 2011) and Romanova (2006) for Russian, and by Dočekal and K...

Two experiments investigate the influence of verb aspect on situation representations. The results demonstrate that comprehenders use verb aspect as a cue to regulate the activation of ongoing simulations of situations over time. Experiment 1 measured word-by-word reading as well as sensibility judgements on sentences in which a target object word had been replaced by a picture. For the past im...

This work investigates first-language (L1) influence on second-language (L2) acquisition of embedded aspect, comparing participants with homogeneous L1 background (Russian) in Greece (L2 Standard Modern Greek) and Cyprus (L2 Cypriot Greek), where verb complementation takes a finite form instead of an infinitival as in Russian. The focus of the experimental study is on those embedded sentential ...

In the aspectual linguistic literature, a connection between imperfective aspect and modality/subjectivity is quite often mentioned. This article investigates a possible counterargument to this connection by analyzing modal readings of tenses in Russian. Two types of uses of tenses are described: (1) temporal reading of the tense with a modal inference and (2) strictly modal reading of the tens...

This paper reports on a literary corpus study of four grammatical tenses across European languages. The consists selection eight chapters from Javier Marías’s Spanish novel Así empieza lo malo ‘Thus bad begins’, and its translations to English, Dutch, French. We annotated 1579 verb forms in the source text for tense, and, subsequently, their other languages, distinguishing between two registers...

Negation in languages is a phenomenon, which receives researchers' attention for long period. occurs on different type of clauses by it shows to have morphological and syntactic changes over the structure words, phrases sentences. Verbs imminenceare used sometimes denote negation verbal Arabic. ka:d one those verbs carries clause without using any negative particles. Saudi dialects use verb baʁ...