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Vendlerian Classes and the Russian Aspectual System

Pavel Braginsky
Susan Rothstein

Journal of Slavic Linguistics, Volume 16, Number 1, Winter - Spring


2008, pp. 3-55 (Article)
Published by Slavica Publishers
DOI: 10.1353/jsl.0.0009

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