Lexical Aspect

The Oxford Handbook of Tense and Aspect

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Filip, Hana ^a  

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Atelic verbs; Change of state; Grammatical aspect; Homogeneity; Lexical aspect; Semantics; Subinterval property; Syntax; Telic verbs; Tense

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EID: 84889243002     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780195381979.013.0025     Document Type: Chapter

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