What is so difficult about telicity marking in L2 Russian?

Bilingualism

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 63-77

  Slabakova, Roumyana ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

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EID: 33750713305     PISSN: 13667289     EISSN: 14691841     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1366728904002093     Document Type: Article

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