Aspect and Reference Time

Olga Borik is Lecturer at the Department of Foreign Languages and Intercultural Communication at the New University of Russia. After her BA in linguistics at the Moscow State University in 1995 she obtained an MPhil from the University of Tronsø in 1998 and a PhD from the University of Utrecht in 2002.

• 1. Introduction ; 2. Main Theories of Aspect, I: The Telicity Approach ; 3. Perfectivity in Russian in Terms of Telicity: Testing The Hypothesis ; 4. Main Theories of Aspect, II: The Point of View Approach ; 5. Reference TIme ; 6. Russian Aspect in Terms of Reference Time ; References ; Index

extremely lucid and forceful...This book is exceptionally clear and well written...I wish there were more semantic and syntactic texts of this exceptional clarity and reader-friendliness.