Is the Great Aspect Theory Possible? Perspectives and Reality

Pátrovics, Péter (2010) Is the Great Aspect Theory Possible? Perspectives and Reality. Studia Slavica, 55 (2). pp. 415-424. ISSN 0039-3363

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Abstract

This paper seeks to find an answer to the question of whether an all-embracing “great theory” on aspect is possible. First, the author describes shortly the situation in aspect research of our days, then he draws a comparison between the present state of aspect research and that of the theoretical physics. Refuting existing views of human language and its category, the aspect as a stable, once and for all fundamental and completely rational system which acts by rules, the paper presents arguments in favour of the existence of communication fragments being the fundamental units of language (and aspectual) usage.

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