In general linguistics, the functions of perfective and imperfective aspect have been thoroughly investigated in domain realis, especially past tense. However, there are languages which exhibit this sort contrast other domains, for example, imperative. The aspectual grams imperative may differ significantly from those documented realis. present paper, I argue that is case Lithuanian. build on s...

this article aims at contrasting aspectual oppositions in english and persian in the context of the novel the old man and the sea, and its translation by daryabandari (1983) as the data. unlike english, in persian perfective and imperfective forms are morphologically marked. while the vast majority of english simple past forms are translated into persian by past perfective forms, only less than...

The authors set three major goals for the book: to increase our understanding of the ‘relationship between lexical semantics and morphology in language acquisition’ (p. 8), to review and evaluate pertinent hypotheses ‘with respect to empirical evidence from crosslinguistic studies of English, Chinese, and Japanese, in both first and second language acquisition’ (p. 8), and to investigate ‘the l...

This study investigated the aspect first hypothesis which claims that children initially use verbal morphology to mark aspect and not tense. Experiment 1 tested 46 two- and three-year-old children's comprehension of tense as it is marked in the auxiliary system using a sentence-to-scene matching task. Children were presented with multiple performances of the same event and asked where a charact...

This paper examines negativity and aspect in Mbaise dialect of the Igbo language. The specific objectives this study are to examine how negation marked/realised Igbo, as well their tonal patterns. Data for got through elicitation method, intuition printed materials, then transcribed analysed descriptively using X-bar theory its framework. Findings reveal presence perfective, progressive habitua...

Software maintenance involves different categories of activities: corrective, adaptive, perfective, and preventive. However, research regarding these distinct activities is hampered by lack of empirical data that is labeled to identify the type of maintenance being performed. A promising dataset is provided by the more than 800 versions of the Linux kernel that have been released since 1994. Th...

In this study, we investigated the use of virtual communities for involving distributed customers in the maintenance of packaged software. On the basis of an empirical study, we suggest that virtual communities can be usefully leveraged for corrective, adaptive, and perfective software maintenance. Specifically, the virtual community allowed for quick discovery of bugs and a rich interaction be...

The vast majority of prefixed roots fall into the perfective class, although there are some perfectives that are not prefixed. Imperfective verb forms are either unprefixed altogether, or possess a suffixal marker of imperfectivity (generally called the ‘secondary’ imperfective). The analytical problem is this: despite this apparently uniform effect on the interpretation of the tense morphology...