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The Author: Maria Stambolieva is head of the Electronic Archive of the Bulgarian language, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, and lecturer of Bulgarian language at the «Jean Moulin» University in Lyon, France. Her interests and work are in the field of syntax and semantics, structural linguistics, corpus linguistics and computational linguistics. She has worked on a number of large-scale national and international linguistic projects and is a pioneer of computer-assisted corpus linguistics in Bulgaria.

Contents: Bulgarian language – The Slavonic category of aspect – Perfective and imperfective verbs – The notion of change in interval semantics – The «stative» verb, aspect and action mode – Aspect and tense – The aorist/imperfect distinction – The aspect/temporal boundedness distinction – Aspect and quantification – Action mode and syntactic structure. Inhaltsverzeichnis