SYN123 - The Function of the Verb - Aspect and Voice
Channel: The Virtual Linguistics Campus
Date: 06/01/2014

In this E-Lecture Prof. Handke discusses two further functional aspects associated with the verb in PDE: aspect and voice. This includes notions such as the perfective vs. the progressive aspect or types of passives ranging from central to pseudo-passives.

  4:24 The Perfective Aspect
  6:24 The Progressive Aspect
  9:54 Voice
12:21 Central Passives
13:40 Semi-Passives
15:24 Pseudo-Passives