By analyzing corpus data, we have shown that the tendencies of restricting perfective past marking to Accomplishments and Achievements and imperfective marking to Statives and Activities as described by the Aspect Hypothesis (Shirai, 1991; Andersen & Shirai, 1996), undesirable in the acquisition of various languages, are desirable in the acquisition of a language like Chinese, because these ten...

In this paper, I will discuss an irrealis-construction in Russian, which poses non-trivial problems for a compositional analysis of tense, aspect and mood (the categories subsumed under the abbreviation TAM). The past tense morphology on the verb – in absence of a semantic PAST operator – is argued to be licensed by an IRREALIS operator. This concord phenomenon will be accounted for in terms ag...

In Danish aspectual differences are expressed by certain verbal constructions. Such aspectual constructions have not received much attention in the Danish literature, but cf. Diderichsen (1946, p. 156), Hansen (1967, vol. 3, pp. 30–31), Jensen (1985, p. 113), Brandt (1992) and Jørgensen (2001). (1) is an example of such an aspectual construction which is used to express imperfective aspect, and...

The Russian semelfactive (event-minimizing) suffix 'nu' (e.g. pryg-nu-t’ = to jump once), rarely discussed in the rich literature on Slavic aspect, (Forsyth 1970, Fowler 1994, Borik 2002, Svenonius 2004a,b,c, Filip 2000, 2003, Romanova 2004, inter alia) presents an interesting problem as it shows a number of striking differences from other perfective operators and unexpected, previously unobser...

The article addresses verbal aspect in the acquisition of Latvian as a foreign language. textbooks both and other languages, well Japanese learners’ writings are analysed to explore this topic. main issue is use verbs expressing aspectual opposition perfective / imperfective, inchoative stative, Aktionsart prefixed verbs. Verbal an implicit category. It one few categories described grammars but...

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Some studies on the L1 acquisition of aspect in various child languages have discovered that imperfective is acquired later than perfective aspect, whereas others find early adult-like performance. A variety explanations has been advanced, particularly problems (i) with semantics combination telic predicates, (ii) inferring intended temporal antecedent a discourse, and (iii) reasoning about an ...

Based on the definition of “tense” and “aspect”, this review paper intends to compare analyze similarities differences between Arabic English tense aspect categories in terms their forms, functions usage. Moreover, current paper, I propose comparison analysis that account for English. The are based qualitative method which depends solely recent previous research works. In addition, assume there...

We used an off-line story continuation task and an online ERP reading task to investigate coreferential processing following sentences that portrayed transfer-of-possession events as either ongoing or completed, using imperfective and perfective verb aspect (e.g., Amanda was shifting/shifted some poker chips to Scott). The story continuation task demonstrated that people were more likely to beg...

Abstract Temporal/aspectual morphology often serves as a diagnostic for actional classes. Bantu languages are known their highly developed tense, aspect (and mood) systems. The East Ruvu of Tanzania unusual in that they exhibit decidedly reduced set temporal/aspectual morphemes. This paper contributes to the growing body research on actionality showing despite not being encoded overtly, perfect...