Verb Classification and the Russian Verbal Aspect: A Formal Analysis

Accomplishments action Activity verbs adverbs agent Aktionsart aspect atomic formula čas chleba chodit closed the door defined definition denote distributive lattice Dowty dver element English examples expression fective formulae of L5 function fuzzy fuzzy logic grammar Hoepelman hour hypothesis idti imperfective imperfective aspect impf indeterminate individual variable intensional logic interval intr intransitive intuitively Ivan Aktart John closed John drank John pushed každyj Kiev knigu language lattice Mary masc mass-noun means ministr Montague-grammar narezat neuter notion noun occur op'at operator opravit's'a opravl'at's'a perf perfective form perfectivization phrase ponës ponesti predicate constant predicate logic predicate variable protosentences protoverb prožit pushed the cart recovered repetition Russian verbs semantics Semelfactives sentence stative t₁ tense logic trans transitive transitive verbs true truth value verb classes verbs of motion vystroit zakryt zakryvat αε βε ζε φε