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Butler, Richard E. 1995. The aspect hypothesis revisited: A cross-sectional study of tense and apsect marking in interlanguage. Applied Linguistics 16 (3) : 344–370.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

aspect | interlanguage | tense | verb inflection

Place, Publisher

Oxford University Press

ISBN

0142-6001

Journal WWW

http://www3.oup.co.uk/applij/contents/

Annotation

This paper explores the aspect hypothesis which holds that early interlanguage verb inflections primarily mark inherent or lexical aspect, i.e. the temporal features of the predicate's lexical meaning.