Aspectual Grammar and Past Time Reference
ISBN: 9780203029985
Platform/Publisher: Taylor & Francis / Routledge
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Subjects: Language & Literature; Language & Linguistics; English Language;

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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