Abstract
Traditionally, aspectual pairs have been considered the cornerstone of the Russian aspectual system, but in recent years, aspectual triplets have received considerable attention. Triplets are constellations of one perfective and two imperfectives, such as množit’sja / umnožit’sja / umnožat’sja ‘multiply’. The present article is a case study of four triplets associated with the verb putat’ ‘confuse’, which focuses on the ‘Telicity Hypothesis’, the idea that the Primary Imperfective is used to describe atelic meaning, while the Secondary Imperfective is used to describe telic meaning. Two ways of testing this hypothesis involving syntactic contexts and what is referred to as ‘pair strength’ are proposed, and it is shown that both tests lend support to the hypothesis.
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