Mikhail Ivanov
List of John Benjamins publications in which Mikhail Ivanov is involved.
Articles
2010 Aspectual composition in causatives Argument Structure and Syntactic Relations: A cross-linguistic perspective, Duguine, Maia, Susana Huidobro and Nerea Madariaga (eds.), pp. 13–34 | Chapter
In this paper we examine the aspectual composition in non-derived verbs and in derived causative verbs. We consider two types of aspectual composition that can be found in languages: in the English type telicity of a verb is determined by the reference properties of its direct object; in the… read more
2009 Event structure of non-culminating accomplishments Cross-linguistic Semantics of Tense, Aspect, and Modality, Hogeweg, Lotte, Helen de Hoop and Andrej L. Malchukov (eds.), pp. 83–130 | Article
In this paper, we examine failed attempt and partial success interpretations of accomplishment verbs cross-linguistically. We observe that accomplishments differ systematically as to which of these readings they can produce. Relying on Rothstein’s (2004) theory of accomplishments, we propose that… read more