The Semantics of Grammatical Aspect: Evidence from Scottish Gaelic

This dissertation presents a theory of grammatical aspect in which perfects and prospectives form a sub-group separate from perfectives and imperfectives. I claim that aspects in this sub-group display a number of similar semantic and syntactic behaviors because of the way in which they relate event...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Reed, Sylvia L.
Other Authors: Carnie, Andrew
Language:en
Published: The University of Arizona. 2012
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10150/223347