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The continuing debate over the existence or non-existence of formal verbal aspect in Gothic triggered the author to write this monograph whose aim is to provide a completely new foundation for a theory of aspect and related features. Gothic, with its limited corpus, representing a translation of the Greek, and showing interesting parallels with Slavic verbal constructions, serves and an illustrative model for the theory. In Part I the author argues that a unified theory of aspect, actional types, and verbal velocity presented there possesses an internal logic and is not at variance with observ

Gothic language --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Indo-European languages --- Verb --- Germanic languages --- Verb phrase --- Verbals --- Reflexives --- Grammar --- Icelandic language --- Linguistics --- Philology --- Verb.