A Theory of Aspectuality - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Theory of Aspectuality write by Henk J. Verkuyl. This book was released on 1996-05-30. A Theory of Aspectuality available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Sentences may pertain to states or processes or events. They may express duration, frequency, habituality, and many other forms of temporality. How do they do this? It is the aspectual properties of sentences in natural languages which allow the user to express a temporal structure, and Henk Verkuyl presents a unified formal system to account for them. He explains aspectuality in terms of the opposition between terminative aspect and durative aspect, and describes the way in which terminative aspect is compositionally formed on the basis of semantic information expressed by different syntactic elements, in particular the verb and its arguments. The aim is to determine which semantic conditions make a sentence terminative; but at least ten different forms of durative aspectuality are also treated. All are drawn into a theory which can account for both terminative and durative aspectuality together. A Theory of Aspectuality draws together into a coherent whole the author's thinking on the subject over the last twenty years, and will interest all those working on aspect and the semantics of noun phrases. It promises to be a major new contribution to our understanding of the subject.
Aspectual Issues
Aspectual Issues - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Aspectual Issues write by H. J. Verkuyl. This book was released on 1999-01-01. Aspectual Issues available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This collection explains Henk J. Verkuyl's theory on time and quantity presented in his 1993 volume, A Theory of Aspectuality. The selected works presented in this follow-up volume explore the consequences of this theory for a number of areas. In particular, Verkuyl addresses issues in the following areas: habituality; the interaction between tense and aspectuality; the role of temporal Path structure in distributive and collective quantification; and the differences and correspondences in the ways in which Slavic, Germanic and Romance languages express aspectuality.
Groups and Eventualities
Groups and Eventualities - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Groups and Eventualities write by Ivan Alexandrov Derzhanski. This book was released on 1995. Groups and Eventualities available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This thesis is devoted to the development of a unified formal treatment of aspectuality. The proposed treatment is based on the conception of aspectuality as a generic catagory, interpreted as the way in which the entities (objects or eventualities) belonging to the denotion of predicate occupy an area within the universe in which the predicate is defined, as defined by the contour of the area, but irrespective of the nature (spatial or temporal) and the mereological and topological organisation of the domain. such a conception is supported by the intuitive semantic analogy between the aspectual properties of the nomimal expressions, which imclude the stativity and telicity of the former and the countability, quantification, specificity and definateness of the latter. The analogy is also reflected in the formation of the temporal constitution of the eventuality expressed in the clause as a result of the interaction between the aspectual properties of the nominal constituents of the clause and the lexical semantics and the morphosyntactic properties of the verb.
Perspectives on Aspect
Perspectives on Aspect - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Perspectives on Aspect write by Henk J. Verkuyl. This book was released on 2006-01-17. Perspectives on Aspect available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book offers both a retrospective view on how theories of aspectuality have developed over the past 30 years, and presents current, new directions of aspectuality research. The articles in this book take a wide crosslinguistic scope including aspectual analyses of the following languages: English and two varieties of English: African American English and Colloquial Singapore English, Italian, French, Bulgarian, Czech, Mandarin Chinese, West-Greenlandic, Wakashan languages, and Nahk-Daghestanian languages.
The Parameter of Aspect
The Parameter of Aspect - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Parameter of Aspect write by C.S. Smith. This book was released on 2013-03-09. The Parameter of Aspect available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. During the period I have been working on this project I have received institutional support of several kinds, for which I am most grateful. I thank the Institute for Advanced Study at Stanford University, and the Spencer Foundation, for a stimulating environment in which the basic idea of this book was developed. The Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics at Nijmegen enabled me to spend several months working on the the manuscript. ANational Science Foundation grant to develop Discourse Representation theory, and a grant from The University Research Institute of the University of Texas, allowed me time to pursue this project. I also thank the Center for Cognitive Science at the University of Texas for research support. I thank Helen Aristar-Dry for reading early drafts of the manuscript, Östen Dahl for penetrating remarks on a preliminary version, and my collaborator Gilbert Rappaport for relentIess comments and questions throughout. The individuals with whom I have worked on particular languages are mentioned in the relevant chapters. I owe a particular debt of gratitude to the members of my graduate seminar on aspect in the spring of 1990: they raised many questions of importance which made a real difference to the working out of the theory. I have benefitted from presenting parts of this material publicly, including cOlloquia at the University of California at Berkeley, the University of California at San Diego, the University of Pennsylvania, Rice University, the University of Texas, and the University of Tel Aviv.
