Replication Data for: The aspectual triplets of putat’: The Telicity Hypothesis and two ways to test it

Traditionally, aspectual triplets (e.g. množit’sja/umnožit’sja/umnožat’sja ‘multiply) have been assumed to be very rare in the Russian verb system. Recent studies show that they are frequent and systematic: Janda et al. (2013: 170) report that 37% of Russian simplex imperfectives occur in triplets, and Kuznetsova and Sokolova (2016: 229) propose that the so-called secondary imperfective, e.g. umnožat’sja, is used to express telic meaning. I carry out a case study of the four triplets involving putat’ and illustrate two ways to test the “Telicity Hypothesis”. Based on my data, I suggest that the use of the secondary imperfective is furthermore influenced by the relationship ("pair strength") of the simplex imperfective and perfective.