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[Alina Israeli]

Liza and all,

What Shmelev is talking about is that one finds ways of making a verb  
imperfective if one is talking about present.

Whether it's разговорный язык or not, used according to  
the Academy grammar or not, every verb is aspectually perfective or  
imperfective in a given context. Even bi-aspectual verbs are either  
perfective or imperfective in a given context. That was the case of  
отвечать in 19th century, for example, and  
арестовать, until арестовывать became common.

There are some empirical ways of approaching Frank's sentence:

> 1. Таки старый Абрам дорешал все свои  
> еврейские вопросы,—но есть вопросы,  
> которые можно решать только с  
> привлечением людей другой  
> национальности.



1. Is Abram in the process of finishing solving the problems? I think  
not.

2. Is Abram repetitively finishing solving the problems? I think not.

3. Is Abram done solving problems? Таки да done. Done, finished,  
hence perfective.


Now,

> Вопрос невозможно дорешать perfective,  
> только задачу можно дорешать!.
>



Why is that so? You can решить вопрос just as well as  
решить задачу. Дорешать anything is not the height  
of elegance, as attested by a total absence in Ruscorpora (unless I  
missed some forms, please forgive me).


> Говорим ли мы: Я приеду и "дорешаю"  
> этот вопрос? ??



Most of us don't but Putin just did in the context of future tense,  
which is perfective.

>  Я дорешаю этот вопрос. Может быть,  
> даже внесём какие-то дополнительные  
> средства.
>



It's not a common usage, but he is not alone:

Давайте дорешаем вопрос с приглашением в гости))) (http 
://koffein.clientomannia.ru/topics/30655)


What's more interesting to me at this point is the difference between  
дорешим and дорешаем.


Alina
Alina Israeli
Associate Professor of Russian
WLC, American University
4400 Massachusetts Ave.
Washington DC 20016
(202) 885-2387 	fax (202) 885-1076
aisrael at american.edu






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