Aspect as a communicative category. Evidence from English, Russian and French

P Durst-Andersen - Lingua, 2018 - Elsevier
On the basis of internal evidence from primarily the use of imperfective forms and external
evidence from primarily first language acquisition, it is argued that English, Russian, and …

The history of tense and aspect in the Sogeram family

D Daniels - Journal of Historical Linguistics, 2020 - jbe-platform.com
This paper presents an overview of the tens-aspect system in the Sogeram languages of
Papua New Guinea. Taking the Proto-Sogeram reconstruction in Daniels (,) as a starting …