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| Preface | |
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| Abbreviations | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Definition of aspect | |
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| Meaning and form | |
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| Terminology | |
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| Structure of the book | |
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| General reading | |
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| Perfective and imperfective | |
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| Perfective | |
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| Definition of perfectivity | |
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| Perfectivity and other aspectual values | |
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| Imperfective | |
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| Habitual | |
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| Habitual and other aspectual values | |
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| Progressive | |
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| Aspect and inherent meaning | |
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| Punctual and durative | |
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| Telic and atelic | |
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| State and dynamic situation | |
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| Perfect | |
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| Types of perfect | |
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| Perfect of result | |
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| Experiential perfect | |
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| Perfect of persistent situation | |
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| Perfect of recent past | |
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| Perfect and other aspects | |
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| Prospective aspect | |
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| Aspect and tense | |
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| Perfective, present, and future | |
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| Aspectual distinctions restricted to certain tenses | |
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| Narrative Present | |
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| Combined tense/aspect oppositions | |
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| Aspect and time reference in tenseless languages | |
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| Aspect and voice | |
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| Formal expression of aspectual oppositions | |
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| Morphology of aspect | |
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| Prefixing in Balto-Slavonic, Georgian, and Hungarian | |
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| Combined tense/aspect morphology | |
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| Syntactic expressions of aspectual oppositions | |
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| Locative expressions of aspectual oppositions | |
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| Progressive and imperfective aspect | |
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| Contingent state | |
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| Direction and aspect | |
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| Perfect as present plus past | |
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| Perfect and inferential | |
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| Markedness | |
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| Markedness and semantics | |
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| Markedness and morphology | |
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| Neutralisation | |
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| Markedness and frequency | |
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| Markedness and context | |
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| Degree of markedness | |
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| Language guide | |
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| Genetic classification of languages cited | |
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| Aspectual systems of individual languages | |
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| English | |
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| Slavonic (Russian, Bulgarian, Old Church Slavonic) | |
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| Romance (French, Spanish) | |
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| Greek (Ancient Greek, Modern Greek) | |
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| Chinese (Mandarin) | |
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| Other languages (Turkish, ChiBemba) | |
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| Recent approaches to aspect | |
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| Localist theory of aspect | |
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| Feature analysis | |
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| Model-theoretic semantics | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |