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By C.S. Smith

ISBN-10: 0792311361

ISBN-13: 9780792311362

ISBN-10: 0792346599

ISBN-13: 9780792346593

This paintings provides a unified conception of element inside of common Grammar. It offers an strange mix of syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic ways to a unmarried area, and provides particular linguistic analyses of 5 languages with very varied aspectual structures: English, French, Mandarin chinese language, Navajo and Russian. This moment variation has been thoroughly revised to incorporate extra improvement of the two-component thought, together with new remedies of boundedness, dynamism and a normal account of aspectual shifts. It contains syntactic and semantic tests.

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