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Bunčić, Daniel ORCID: 0000-0002-1090-8907 (2013). Biaspektuelle Verben als Polyseme: Über Homonymie, Aspektneutralität und die konative Lesart. Die Welt der Slaven, 58 (1). pp. 36-53. Otto Sagner. ISSN 0043-2520

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Abstract

The paper starts from the question whether biaspectual verbs like Russian ispolʹzovatʹ ‘to use (IPFV/PFV)’ or motivirovatʹ ‘to motivate (IPFV/PFV)’ are homonymous pairs of a perfective and an imperfective verb or just one aspectually neutral verb that receives its aspectual meaning from the context. If they are homonyms, they ought to have all the meanings of non-homonymous verbs, including the so-called conative reading of attempt and success, as in On sdaval(IPFV), no ne sdal(PFV) ėkzamen ‘He took the test but did not pass’. If they are aspectually neutral, sentences given out of the blue without context ought to be read as perfective or as imperfective with equal probabilities. A small corpus analysis and an online survey with 1295 native speakers test these hypotheses. The results show that biaspectual verbs are neither homonyms (since they cannot have the conative reading) nor aspectually neutral (since they all show a clear tendency towards either a perfective or an imperfective interpretation). Consequently, they must be viewed as polysemous, with an α-meaning according to their lexical-actional function and a β-meaning achieved by recategorization where the context demands it. — English translation of the paper available at https://doi.org/10.18716/omp.64.6 (clickable link below).

Item Type:	Article
Translated title:	Title Language Biaspectual verbs as polysemes: On homonymy, aspectual neutrality, and the conative reading English
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Bunčić, Daniel daniel@buncic.de https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1090-8907 UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-59937
Identification Number:	10.18716/bun/2asp
Journal or Publication Title:	Die Welt der Slaven
Volume:	58
Number:	1
Page Range:	pp. 36-53
Date:	2 January 2013
Publisher:	Otto Sagner
ISSN:	0043-2520
Language:	German
Faculty:	Faculty of Arts and Humanities
Divisions:	Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Fächergruppe 5: Moderne Sprachen und Kulturen > Slavisches Institut
Subjects:	Language, Linguistics Other languages
Related URLs:	https://doi.org/10.18716/omp.64.6
Refereed:	Yes
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/5993