ASPECT AND MEANING IN SLAVIC AND INDIC -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Table of contents -- Foreword Aspect and language: The Wittgensteinian Turn -- Figures and tables -- Transcription, glosses, sources of examples -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Introduction The magic of aspect -- 1. Aspect and its literature -- General and typological studies -- Slavic -- Indic -- NOTES -- 2. Aspects and meanings: Slavic -- On language as an open-ended system -- Aspect in relation to form, meaning, logic and style -- Towards defining aspect -- Sweet's definition -- On aspect as a concept -- 'Real' time, linguistic time, and aspect -- Revaluating the aspect: Aktionsart distinction in Slavic: The functional reciprocity of the two terms -- A critique of the theory of binary oppositions and markedness in Slavic aspect -- The terms 'objective' and 'subjective' in relation to aspect -- Aspect in Czech: Tendencies, regularities and anomalies -- Tracing the Slavic aspect Gestalt (I) -- Digression: Wittgenstein and aspect -- Tracing the Slavic aspect Gestalt (II) -- Accounting for the Slavic aspect Gestalt -- Aspect features and their justification: A theoretical proposal -- NOTES -- 3. Aspects and meanings: Indic -- Aspect in the vectorless or non-compound tense forms -- Analytic (periphrastic) verbal forms -- The pure verbal compounds: Definition, formation, and aspectual properties -- Compatibility of vectors within linear time frame -- Latent and realized aspect -- Gradation in strength and overlap of the subcategories -- Strength of nuance and derivability of linear forms -- Overlap of punctual subcategories -- Vectors and linearity -- NOTES -- 4. Comparison and contrastive analysis -- General common features -- Comparison and contrast: Choosing the bases -- Form and process in Slavic aspect -- Degree of systematicity.

Form and process in Indic aspect -- Comparison and contrast of aspectual form and process -- Comparison at the level of categories and subcategories -- Indic parallels to Slavic perfectivity -- Some miscellaneous similarities -- Further research suggestions -- NOTES -- 5. Slavic, Indic and 'general aspect theory' -- The multiple articulation of aspect in Slavic and Indic -- NOTES -- References -- Index.