Tatiana Milliaressi

Aspect is a universal category. Its grammaticalization is prototypically represented by the Slavic model. However, aspectual information is encoded in non-Slavic languages as well. The question at issue is whether typology of aspect is influenced by language typology and whether there are several aspectual models.

Epistemic translation is the translation that transmits knowledge. Its purpose is to convince the addressee of the appropriateness and the relevance of the statement. This is the third type of translation.