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Aspectual potential of Russian verb

Objetivo

The project focuses on the description of aspectologically relevant characteristics of Russian verbs. The primary goal of our study is to investigate the aspectual potential of Russian verbs and provide a systematic aspectological description of every Russian verb. A secondary goal is to present the results of the investigation in the form of a dictionary. The participants are firmly committed to producing a comprehensive description of the Russian aspectual system by the end of the project.

The programme of the subject is subdivided into the following tasks:
1) further elaboration of the conceptual framework of the research;
2) lexicographic description of a representative corpus of Russian verbs from an aspectological perspective;
3) delineation of the rules governing the link between the semantics of a given verb and its aspectual behaviour.

The first task will be attacked by all the teams involved in the project. The expected results are: functional criteria for establishing aspectual pairs; semantic classification of the Russian aspectual pairs; principles for distinguishing between aspect and related verbal categories. The results will be presented in a series of articles as well as in the preface to the Aspectual Dictionary of Russian. Mainly the Russian teams will undertake the second task. This task is further subdivided into the following sub-tasks: elaboration of the general principles for imposing restrictions on the material to be analysed; establishment of the set of aspectual correlates by applying the substitution test; elaboration of the organisation of a lexicographic entry; compilation of the Aspectual Dictionary of Russian.

As for the third task, the main objective is to give explicit rules which would make it possible to deduce from the definition of a perfective verb:
(1) all the regular non­trivial meanings of its imperfective correlate and ;
(2) the grammatical properties of the imperfective correlate when used in those non­trivial meanings. The found regularities will be stated in an Addenda to the Dictionary (responsible: Professor Shmelev of Moscow Pedagogical State University, Russia).

The cooperation between the participants will take place mainly by correspondence. The results will be discussed at the annual workshops: in Aix-en-Provence (France), Kiel (Germany), and Moscow (Russia).

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Christian-Albrechts-University
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Leibnitzstrasse 10
24098 Kiel
Alemania

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