Original scientific article
Page 149 - 168

English aspectual particles are of two types

Milada Walková
E-mail: mwalkova@yahoo.com
Technical University of Košice
Abstract: The paper presents a corpus-based study of English aspectual particle verbs. The standard view (Brinton 1985) is that particles mark telicity; a more recent account argues that particles are comparati...

Original scientific article
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Orphan prefixes and the grammaticalization of aspect in South Slavic

Stephen M. Dickey
E-mail: smd@ku.edu
Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Kansas
Abstract: This paper establishes the term ORPHAN PREFIX for a Slavic prefix that no longer shares a dominant spatial meaning with its cognate preposition. Most Slavic prefixes do share such a dominant spatial m...

Original scientific article
Page 307 - 347

Aspect use in the imperative and the prescriptive infinitive in recipes in Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian and Russian: A comparative account

Silje Susanne Alvestad
E-mail: s.s.alvestad@ilos.uio.no
Universitetet i Oslo
Abstract: In this article, I present the results of a comparative study of the use of aspect in Bosnian (Bn), Croatian (Hr), Serbian (Sr) and Russian (Ru) imperatives and prescriptive infinitives—infinitives us...

Preliminary communication
Page 199 - 208

Towards a new future in (West and East) Slavonic?

Alexander Andrason
E-mail: aleksand@hi.is
University of Cape Town
Abstract: This article demonstrates that the rule according to which perfective verbs are incompatible with the future auxiliary ‘be’ in West and East Slavonic languages is less strict than has been claimed in ...