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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Dear All,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">while Gertraud Fenk-Oczlon’s papers (I think there were more than one) are surely path-breaking (for the reason indicated by Martin), Walter Breu earlier dealt with actionality-based
reasons of an asymmetry between pfv. and ipfv. stems in Russian and – still in the pre-corpus age – showed this to be relevant on the basis of frequency dictionaries. There is also a paper by Volkmar Lehmann, who showed basically the same (on other data) and
gave a similar explanation. See references below.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:35.4pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">In any way – there is no way of claiming that either pfv. or ipfv. aspect per se is “default”. It first of all depends on the actionality group
(starting with [+/- telic / bounded splits].<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Happy reading!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Best,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Björn.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman",serif">Breu, Walter. 1980.
</span><i><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman,Italic",serif">Semantische Untersuchungen zum Verbalaspekt im Russischen</span></i><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman",serif">. München: Sagner.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman",serif">Lehmann, Volkmar. 1993. Die russischen Aspekte als gestufte Kategorien (Ein Beispiel für die Bedeutung der kognitiven Linguistik in der slavistischen Sprachwissenschaft).
</span><i><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman,Italic",serif">Die Welt der Slaven
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Von:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> Lingtyp [mailto:lingtyp-bounces@listserv.linguistlist.org]
<b>Im Auftrag von </b>Martin Haspelmath<br>
<b>Gesendet:</b> Montag, 11. Juli 2022 20:09<br>
<b>An:</b> lingtyp@listserv.linguistlist.org<br>
<b>Betreff:</b> Re: [Lingtyp] Frequency of (im)perfective marking<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">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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<span style="font-size:10.0pt">Fenk-Oczlon, Gertraud. 1990. Ikonismus versus Ökonomieprinzip: Am Beispiel russischer Aspekt-und Kasusbildungen.
<i>Papiere zur Linguistik</i> 42(1). 49–69. <a href="http://wwwu.uni-klu.ac.at/gfenk/ikon_gesamt.pdf">
http://wwwu.uni-klu.ac.at/gfenk/ikon_gesamt.pdf</a></span><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<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Am 11.07.22 um 16:40 schrieb Juergen Bohnemeyer:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">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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<p class="MsoNormal">HTH! — Juergen<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Bohnemeyer, J., & M. Swift. (2004). Event realization and default aspect.
<i>Linguistics and Philosophy</i> 27(3): 263-296.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Janda, L., A. Endresen, J. Kuznetsova, O. Lyashevskaya, A. Makarova, T. Nesset, & S. Sokolova.
<i>Why Russian aspectual prefixes aren’t empty: Prefixes as verb classifiers</i>. Bloomington, IN: Slavica Publishers. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Jul 11, 2022, at 8:08 AM, Eline Visser <<a href="mailto:eelienu@protonmail.com">eelienu@protonmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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Hello,<br>
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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>
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Eline<br>
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