Aspect in the English Verb: Process and Result in LanguageLongman, 1993 - 398 pages Aims to provide a broad view of the subject difficult to obtain exclusively from academic journals and monographs. Coverage of this series will extend to all main aspects of linguistic study, and will include work on major language families, on English and other important languages. |
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Listen versus hear | 79 |
Speak versus talk | 137 |
CONTENTS | 145 |
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activity and/or aspect aspectual asymmetric markedness relationship auxiliary verb Battistella begin Bolinger chapter Collins collocate concepts of Process constructions context copula David discourse discussed distinctive semantic feature Dominick Dunne door English event examples Freed functions gerund GET-passive Giovanni Giovanni's room grammar grammaticalization hear Hebrew Hella implied indicate invariant meanings irregular verbs italics and numeration James Baldwin Judith Rossner Kirsner and Thompson language leitmotiv lexical verbs linguistic action linguistic signs listen look marked for Result microlevel analysis minimal pairs motivated non-random distribution noun passive perfect phrasal verbs postulated present Process and Result PROCESS/RESULT progressive Quirk and Greenbaum refers say and tell semantic domain semantic feature Result semantic field semiotic sentences sign-oriented speak speaker specific claim speech act synonymous syntactic talk telic endpoint temporal tense text to sign theoretical and methodological Tobin traditional and neotraditional troublesome lexical pair unmarked form unmarked member utterance Vanrespaille