28.03.2013 Views

There is no neutral aspect - UCLA Department of Linguistics

There is no neutral aspect - UCLA Department of Linguistics

There is no neutral aspect - UCLA Department of Linguistics

SHOW MORE
SHOW LESS

Create successful ePaper yourself

Turn your PDF publications into a flip-book with our unique Google optimized e-Paper software.

Summary<br />

Russian and Hindi have <strong>aspect</strong>ual forms whose<br />

semantic properties are character<strong>is</strong>tic <strong>of</strong> both the<br />

perfective and the imperfective. They seem to provide<br />

evidence for a d<strong>is</strong>tinct <strong>aspect</strong>ual category: <strong>neutral</strong><br />

<strong>aspect</strong>.<br />

} Presupposes that we k<strong>no</strong>w what perfective and<br />

imperfective are like.<br />

20

Hooray! Your file is uploaded and ready to be published.

Saved successfully!

Ooh no, something went wrong!