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| ISBN: | 9789027298201
9027298203
9789027224941
9027224943
9781588110381
1588110389
1588110389
9027224943
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| Digital file characteristics: | data file
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-229) and index.
Print version record.
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| Summary: | The author combines a syntax-theoretical treatment of telicity marking and an empirical study of the second language acquisition of English telicity marking by native speakers of Bulgarian, a Slavic language. It is argued that Vendler's lexical classes of verbs (states, activities, accomplishments and achievements) can be represented in four phrase structure templates, where lexical properties of the verb and of the object compositionally determine telicity. A parameterized distinction between English and Slavic aspect is proposed. The book addresses two major acquisition issues: (1) what is t.
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| Other form: | Print version: Slabakova, Roumyana. Telicity in the second language. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia, PA : John Benjamins Pub. Co., ©2001
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