Affiliation:
1. AI Lab, Vrije Universiteit Brussel
2. Sony Computer Science Laboratories Tokyo
Abstract
Abstract
Russian boasts a highly complex aspectual system which can appear irregular and
difficult to learn. It has recently been suggested that motion verbs, which are
normally seen as exceptional in their nature, may in fact be at the core of this
system, motivating aspectual behavior based on stem directionality. This
suggests that analyzing motion verbs may help understand the Russian aspectual
system as a whole. The present work demonstrates how Russian motion verbs and
their aspectual partners can be implemented and processed successfully with
Fluid Constructional Grammar. The study presents an example of language
processing in both production and comprehension in operation and highlights the
flexibility and power of this formalism, despite the challenges that this
complex aspectual system poses.
Publisher
John Benjamins Publishing Company
Subject
Linguistics and Language,Language and Linguistics
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