Publisher's Synopsis
The volume contains 11 contributions to the Second Scandinavian Symposium on Aspectology, held in Uppsala in 1986. The articles treat of problems of aspect and Aktionsarten in different languages, e.g. Swedish, Finnish, Hungarian, Russian, Bulgarian and Modern Greek. Aktionsart could be defined as the semantics and function of verbal derivations, aspect as the interrelation of verbal forms in text. the development of aspectual categories in language, Kabakciev discusses the category of telicity (boundedness) in Bulgarian, and Kotsinas the development of some verbs into aspect markers in different languages. Andersson, in his contribution, deals with an aspectual periphrase in a German dialect. Kangasmaa-Minn gives a description of the Finnish verbal system as basically nominal. The expression of aspect is in many languages a prefix. Kecskes describes the semantic differences between Russian and Hungarian prefixverbs. Other articles deal with aspect problems in Russian and other Indoeuropean languages as well as in Montagnais, a Cree language in Canada.
