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Aspectual Effects on Interpretation in Early Grammar
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Hyams, Nina – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2007
This paper focuses on the temporal and modal meanings associated with root infinitives (RIs) and other non-finite clauses in several typologically diverse languages--English, Russian, Greek and Dutch. I discuss the role that event structure, aspect, and modality play in the interpretation of these clauses. The basic hypothesis is that in the…
Descriptors: Language Patterns, English, Russian, Indo European Languages