The paper deals with the interpretation of time reference in comprehension of indirect speech in Russian. The focus of the investigation is on the distinction between simultaneous and backward-shifted events in past-under-past condition. While many studies on indirect speech in Russian solely discuss tense forms, the paper is focused on the usage of verbal aspect in past-under-past condition. A sentence transformation test and a picture recognition task give first insights into aspect use, interpretation, and processing of indirect speech sentences in Russian.
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