How descending is ascending German? On the deep interrelations between tense, aspect, pronominality, and ergativity

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents vii
3. Addresses ix
4. Introduction xi
5. Vladimir Nedjalkov: List of main publications xix
6. Part 1: Transitivity, causativity and tense-aspect
7. Aspect and transitivity of iterative constructions in Warrungu 3
8. Split causativity 21
9. Conceptualization and aspect in some Asian languages 43
10. Evidentiality, transitivity and split ergativity 63
11. On the semantics of some Russian causative constructions 97
12. Part 2: The trade-off between aspect and tense as typological parameters
13. Some notes on the Georgian resultative 117
14. Preterites and imperfects in the languages of Europe 141
15. The qualitative meaning of Russian imperfective verbs in passive constructions 163
16. Typological notes on aspect and actionality in Kipchak Turkic 171
17. Distributivity 185
18. The past perfect in Armenian 207
19. Aspects of aspect in Korean psych-predicates 223
20. Part 3: Events and their componentiality
21. How descending is ascending German? On the deep interrelations between tense, aspect, pronominality, and ergativity 253
22. Verbal temporalization in Russian and English 293
23. A typology of phasal meanings 311
24. Degrees of focality in Kalmyk imperfectives 323
25. Aspectual classification of nouns 341
26. Subject Index 351