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As far as I know, the first work to discuss Russian aspect
frequencies in a general-theoretical context is the following paper
by Fenk-Oczlon, who argues for a frequency-based (rather than
iconicity-based) explanation of coding asymmetries:<br>
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<font size="2">Fenk-Oczlon, Gertraud. 1990. Ikonismus versus
Ökonomieprinzip: Am Beispiel russischer Aspekt-und Kasusbildungen.
<i>Papiere zur Linguistik</i> 42(1). 49–69.
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://wwwu.uni-klu.ac.at/gfenk/ikon_gesamt.pdf">http://wwwu.uni-klu.ac.at/gfenk/ikon_gesamt.pdf</a></font><br>
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In his monograph <i>Language universals</i>, Greenberg (1966: 49)
had discussed the frequencies of perfective/imperfective aspect
(again with reference to Russian), but without drawing conclusions.<br>
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What's great about Fenk-Oczlon is that she points out that different
types of verbs have different propensities to occur in perfective or
imperfective aspect, thus foreshadowing Bohnemeyer & Swift
(2004).<br>
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Best,<br>
Martin<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Am 11.07.22 um 16:40 schrieb Juergen
Bohnemeyer:<br>
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Dear Eline — Bohnemeyer & Swift (2004) discuss default uses of
viewpoint aspects crosslinguistically from a pragmatic
perspective. While our paper is not itself corpus-based, we do
briefly consider the older acquisition literature, which examined
both kids’ production frequencies and their input frequencies. A
more recent detailed corpus study of aspect in Russian is Janda et
al. (2013).
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<div class="">HTH! — Juergen</div>
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<div class="">Bohnemeyer, J., & M. Swift. (2004). Event
realization and default aspect.
<i class="">Linguistics and Philosophy</i> 27(3): 263-296.</div>
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<div class="">Janda, L., A. Endresen, J. Kuznetsova, O.
Lyashevskaya, A. Makarova, T. Nesset, & S. Sokolova.
<i class="">Why Russian aspectual prefixes aren’t empty:
Prefixes as verb classifiers</i><span style="font-style:
normal;" class="">. Bloomington, IN: Slavica Publishers.</span> </div>
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Eline Visser <<a href="mailto:eelienu@protonmail.com"
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Hello,<br class="">
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Could anyone point me to a paper that says something about the
frequency of perfective vs imperfective marking in languages
that mark both? I wonder if any of the aspects tends to be
the default aspect.<br class="">
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Eline<br class="">
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