Aspectual grammar and past-time reference

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Aspectual grammar and past-time reference

Laura A. Michaelis

(Routledge studies in Germanic linguistics, 4)

Routledge, 1998

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Bibliography: p. 281-287

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This study presents a semantic framework for analysing all aspectual constructions in terms of the event state distinction, and describes the grammatical expression of aspectual meaning in terms of a theory of grammatical constructions. In this theory, grammatical constructions, like words, are conventionalized form-meaning pairs, which are best described not only with respect to their intrinsic semantic values, but also with respect to the functional oppositions in which they participate.

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