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This paper proposes a compositional temporal analysis of restrictions on perfective aspect in mor... more This paper proposes a compositional temporal analysis of restrictions on perfective aspect in morphological present tense contexts in matrix and (certain) embedded clauses in Serbian. The main idea is that the availability of perfective aspect depends on the duration of the time interval with respect to which the event is ordered. This time interval is further determined by the interplay of temporal and aspectual components higher in the structure. Moreover, it is shown that the observed restrictions on perfective aspect in Serbian are, to a large extent, parallel to restrictions on non-progressive, episodic, non-stative, non-generic predicates in English. Following the assumption that these predicates contain a perfective component (Kamp & Reyle 1993, Smith 1991, Cowper 1998, Wurmbrand 2014, inter alia), the proposed analysis allows for the unification of Aspect in Serbian and the abovementioned predicates in English.
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Todorović, Neda and Susi Wurmbrand. Finiteness across domains. Submitted to: Current developments... more Todorović, Neda and Susi Wurmbrand. Finiteness across domains. Submitted to: Current developments in Slavic Linguistics—Twenty years after, ed. by Teodora Radeva-Bork and Peter Kosta: Peter Lang.
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