The acquisition of Russian aspect

.............................................................................................................. vii Acknowledgments ................................................................................................ix Introduction...........................................................................................................1 1. Theoretical background .............................................................................2 1.1 The two major approaches to acquisition............................................2 1.2 Criteria for acquisition.......................................................................4 1.3 Context..............................................................................................6 1.4 Data used in acquisition studies ..........................................................7 1.5 The acquisition of aspect ..................................................................10 1.6 Previous research on the acquisition of Russian aspect .....................10 2. Questions and goals of this dissertation .................................................... 14 3. Major hypotheses .....................................................................................14 4. Methods...................................................................................................15 5. Data analysis ...........................................................................................17 6. Results of this dissertation....................................................................... 20 7. Structure of the dissertation..................................................................... 21 Part I: Russian aspect Chapter 1: The Semantics of Russian aspect ........................................................27

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