[Lingtyp] Frequency of (im)perfective marking

[Martin Haspelmath]

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:

Fenk-Oczlon, Gertraud. 1990. Ikonismus versus Ökonomieprinzip: Am 
Beispiel russischer Aspekt-und Kasusbildungen. /Papiere zur Linguistik/ 
42(1). 49–69. http://wwwu.uni-klu.ac.at/gfenk/ikon_gesamt.pdf

In his monograph /Language universals/, Greenberg (1966: 49) had 
discussed the frequencies of perfective/imperfective aspect (again with 
reference to Russian), but without drawing conclusions.

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).

Best,
Martin

Am 11.07.22 um 16:40 schrieb Juergen Bohnemeyer:
> 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).
>
> HTH! — Juergen
>
> Bohnemeyer, J., & M. Swift. (2004). Event realization and default 
> aspect. /Linguistics and Philosophy/ 27(3): 263-296.
>
> Janda, L., A. Endresen, J. Kuznetsova, O. Lyashevskaya, A. Makarova, 
> T. Nesset, & S. Sokolova. /Why Russian aspectual prefixes aren’t 
> empty: Prefixes as verb classifiers/. Bloomington, IN: Slavica 
> Publishers.
>
>
>
>> On Jul 11, 2022, at 8:08 AM, Eline Visser <eelienu at protonmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> Eline
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