Abstract
Abstract This paper offers an account of aspect in imperative verb forms and in certain infinitive verb forms of Russian. 1 This paper is based on Chapter 6 of my thesis for the Ph.D. degree at the University of Edinburgh, entitled Tense and Aspect in Russian. My thanks are due to Mrs. Bunak and Mrs. Mercanskaja who acted as my informants during their stays in Edinburgh as Language Assistants in the Department of Russian, and to Dennis Ward and David Kilby for their comments. The data had been gained from my informants before the excellent book by Spagis came my way. The latter shows the presuppositions postulated in this paper are at least on the right track. Although the paper is concerned chiefly with Russian, it is of general theoretical interest on two counts. Firstly, it shows how aspect and mood may be interconnected, as opposed to the much discussed intertwining of tense and aspect. Secondly, it provides evidence that the distribution of some forms of Russian cannot be adequately explained without recourse to semantics.
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