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Motion event cognition and grammatical aspect: Evidence from Afrikaans [PDF]

open access: yesLinguistics, 2013
Research on the relationship between grammatical aspect and motion event construal has posited that speakers of non-aspect languages are more prone to encoding event endpoints than are speakers of aspect languages (e.g., von Stutterheim and Carroll 2011).
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Grammatical aspect in English

The Linguistic Review, 1999
This paper proposes a theory of grammatical aspect based on the Davidsonian event-place e. Eventive sentences are shown to include e, while stative sentences lack e. Parsons' (1990) arguments for an analogous element in stative sentences are shown to be incorrect.
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Grammatical uniformity of tense and aspect

Narrative Inquiry, 2020
AbstractThis paper explores the pragmatic effects of Tense Shift in an Urdu narrative. A linguistic analysis of the semantic and pragmatic effects of Tense Shift is proposed. A key claim of this analysis is that the mechanisms of Tense Shift exist in sentence-level grammar in Urdu. The analysis seeks to provide an explanation for some of the properties
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THE ACQUISITION OF LEXICAL AND GRAMMATICAL ASPECT

Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2004
THE ACQUISITION OF LEXICAL AND GRAMMATICAL ASPECT. Ping Li and Yasuhiro Shirai. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 2000. Pp. v + 261. $106.00 cloth. This book covers everything related to aspect in the field of language acquisition; I was amazed by how the authors managed to do this in such a clear manner in only 261 pages.
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Problematic aspects of grammatical homonyms

ACADEMICIA: An International Multidisciplinary Research Journal, 2021
AbstractThe concepts grammatical homonyms which are interpreted in linguistic as quite difficult and specific have been investigated in this paper. The existing scientific opinions about these problems have been shown. In the process of communication homonyms sometimes lead to confusion and misunderstanding. Grammatical homonyms are one of the types of
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On Grammatical Terminology and Aspect in Particular

Greece and Rome, 1962
It is over fifty years now since the formation of the Joint Committee on Grammatical Terminology, and the presentation of its Report and it seems to be high time that teachers of languages considered, first, how successful they have been in carrying out its recommendations, and secondly, what modifications are called for in the light of more recent ...
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Aspect in Grammatical Variation

2010
The articles in this edited volume represent a range of approaches to studying the role of verbal aspect in grammatical variation. Issues addressed include: defining the variable context; operationalizing aspectual distinctions as factors conditioning linguistic variation; and the appropriate number of aspectual distinctions and levels.
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Interaction of lexical and grammatical aspect in toddlers' language

Journal of Child Language, 2006
This study examined the effect of lexical aspect on children's imitation accuracy of English tense-aspect morphology. Thirty-five typically developing children, ages 2;4 to 3;1, imitated sentence-pairs in which the same regular verb was used once in an activity (skip on the rug) and once in an accomplishment (skip out the door).
Bonnie W, Johnson, Marc E, Fey
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Grammatical and situational aspect in French: a developmental study

Journal of Child Language, 2002
We study the ability of children to provide an appropriate continuation for a stimulus sentence, taking into account the joint demands of situational aspect and grammatical aspect. We hypothesize that the aspectual transitions required by some aspectual combinations play a role in the difficulty of providing an appropriate continuation for them.
Marie, Labelle   +2 more
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Some Remarks on Grammatical Aspect in Latin [PDF]

open access: yesPhilologia Classica, 2016
The existence of grammatical aspect in Latin is a much discussed issue. The main aim of this article is to review different approaches to this question and to discuss important arguments that have to be taken into consideration. Besides the traditional
Spevak, Olga
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