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Amsterdam Center for Language and Communication ACLC

Comparative (Slavic) Verbal Aspect

Slavic verbal aspect is unique in the world. Each sentential utterance requires an aspect choice for almost every verb form, finite and infinite alike. The semantics underlying that choice differ per Slavic language: an important part is played by lexical semantic restrictions and especially the feature terminativity.

Key objectives

  • establish the commonalities and differences between individual Slavic languages;
  • use and develop the Amsterdam Slavic Parallel Aligned Corpus;
  • special focus: taxis-constructions and aspect choice;
  • special focus: lexical restrictions (asp. action types);
  • special focus: the historical development of Slavic verbal aspect.

Events

Our group meets every week on Friday afternoon (except on holidays). Updates on ongoing research are exchanged and discussions are lively.

Impact

Slavic languages have a unique and exceptionally rich but also rigid aspect system: our research reveals semantic and other features that often may be put to use when developing theorems concerning other languages and so aid further understanding of the functioning of language in general.

Coordinator and group members

Coordinator:
René Genis

Members:
Adriaan A. Barentsen
Magda van Duijkeren-Hrabova
Egbert Fortuin
Janneke Kalsbeek
Jaap Kamphuis
Paula Kyselica
Radovan Lučić