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(PDF) 2010. Der slavische Aspekt im Licht der kognitiven Linguistik.

2010. Der slavische Aspekt im Licht der kognitiven Linguistik.

2010

Abstract The first part of this paper is a critical review of cognitive aspectology in slavistics, especially of Durst-Anderson (1992) and Dickey (2000). The second part describes the author’s Cognitive Aspect Theory, modelling the acquisition of aspectual and temporal functions and thereby explaining the character of aspectual categories. The components of the theory are (i) primary situational notions (processes, events, states, results, and intentions), which (ii) are encoded as primary clusters (except for events), and (iii) the profiling-operation as an example of the functional operations supporting the development of (iv) sentence and text functions of the Slavic verbal aspect together with the corresponding lexical, morphological and functional categories. Basing on this evolutionary model we can explain the fact that there are pf. and ipf. alpha-verbs, which are more typical (in principle more frequent, cognitively privileged, formally marked, etc.) than their counterparts, the pf. and ipf. beta-verbs.