Case Studies in Fluid Construction Grammar

Russian boasts a highly complex aspectual system which can appear irregular anddifficult to learn. It has recently been suggested that motion verbs, which arenormally seen as exceptional in their nature, may in fact be at the core of thissystem, motivating aspectual behavior based on stem directionality. Thissuggests that analyzing motion verbs may help understand the Russian aspectualsystem as a whole. The present work demonstrates how Russian motion verbs andtheir aspectual partners can be imp