Situation aspect and viewpoint aspect : from Salish to Japanese
This thesis investigates lexical and grammatical aspect in two unrelated languages, Sencoten(the Saanich dialect of Straits Salish) and Japanese. In particular, the main focus is on how various perfect readings are derived in the two languages, which show striking similarities in this respect. In Se...
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University of British Columbia
2008
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/2429/586 |
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