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First-Language Acquisition: Monolingual and Bilingual Acquisition of Verbal Aspect
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In Slavic languages, aspect represents a very complex category with respect to forms and to functions. This article focuses on the acquisition of aspect functions in Russian. From the acquisitional point of view, it proposes a subdivision into unambiguous aspect rules (progressive function of the imperfective aspect, concrete-factual function of the perfective aspect) and…

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Anstatt, Tanja, “First-Language Acquisition: Monolingual and Bilingual Acquisition of Verbal Aspect”, in: Encyclopedia of Slavic Languages and Linguistics Online, Editor-in-Chief Marc L. Greenberg. Consulted online on 08 June 2023 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/2589-6229_ESLO_COM_031969>
First published online: 2020



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