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Publication details [#8910]

Skott, Staffan. 1979. On biaspectual verbs in Russian. Papers from the Scandinavian Conference of Linguistics 5 (Workshop on aspectology) : 17–33.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

aspect | explicit performative | performative verb

Language as a subject

Russian

Person as a subject

Austin, J.L.

Annotation

An analysis of a small class of bi-aspectual verbs in Russian, that express J.L. Austin's 'explicit performatives'. An attempt is made to explain the bi-aspectual nature of these verbs, precisely on the basis of the performative function.