The semantics of the Japanese imperfective -teiru: An integrative approach

Journal of Pragmatics

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 327-361

  Shirai, Yasuhiro ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

Aspect (inherent vs. viewpoint, progressive vs. resultative, perfect vs. habitual); Japanese semantics; Syntactic constraints; Temporal constraints; Tense; Verb classification

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034134448     PISSN: 03782166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0378-2166(99)00051-x     Document Type: Article

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