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On Semantic Peculiarities Of Secondary Imperfective Verbs In Russian: Their In/Compatibility With The Notions Of Duration And Completion, Valentina S. Soboleva
On Semantic Peculiarities Of Secondary Imperfective Verbs In Russian: Their In/Compatibility With The Notions Of Duration And Completion, Valentina S. Soboleva
Russian Language Journal
It is a well-known fact that some secondary imperfective verbs in Russian cannot express duration – a notion, ascribed to the imperfective aspect. Of the three, or even four, possible aspectual meanings of the imperfective aspect – duration / progressive continuity, general validity, and repetition – some secondary imperfective verbs are limited to expressing only iterativity, a notion of repetition, embedded in their lexical semantics. The interpretation of the term iterativity in this work is close to the one given by Mehlig (2006) in which the iterative predicate describes an unbounded number of repetitions and the particular meaning is embedded …