Perfectivity in Slavonic and other languages

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Preface v
3. Contents vii
4. Part 1. The typology of aspect
5. Perfectivity in Slavonic and other languages 3
6. Nested aspects 23
7. On the essence of the category of aspectuality and its lexical-semantic level in Russian 39
8. The Slavonic frequentative habitual 53
9. Tense, aspect and Aktionsarten in Finno-Ugrian 77
10. Part 2. Verb, sentence and aspect
11. The rôle of Baltic influence in the aspectual system of Finnish 97
12. On the aspectual significance of ‘phase meanings’ 111
13. Totally affected. Aspect and three-place predicates in Hungarian 133
14. Aspect in Finnish 153
15. Towards a functional grammar of aspect in Finnish 179
16. What is aspectual about the perfect and the pluperfect in Swedish? 199
17. Part 3. Text and aspect
18. Changes of aspect in text production 211
19. Coherence, perspective and aspectual specification in Slavonic narrative discourse 225
20. Narrative implications of aspect in Russian and in Finnish 239
21. Is it possible to construct Germanic-Slavonic translation rules, which predict the choice of aspect? 257
22. Index of proper names 277
23. Index of languages 279
24. Index of topics 281