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 Henk J. Verkuyl. This book was released on 1999-09-13. Aspectual Issues available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book is a collection of nine papers, eight of them written after the author's well-known A Theory of Aspectuality published in 1993. The aim of the book is (a) to explain Verkuyl's 1993 theory and to simplify its exposition; (b) to explore its consequences for a number of areas, in particular issues concerning habituality, the role of aspectualizers marking the beginning, middle or end of events, the interaction between tense and aspectuality, the role of temporal Path structure in distributive and collective quantification, the differences and correspondences in the ways in which Slavic, Germanic and Romance languages express aspectuality, and related topics. Several papers contain a critical analysis of Davidson's event semantics and indicate that neo-Davidsonians either use the wrong tools for a proper analysis of aspectuality or that they (need to) adopt some of the crucial assumptions of the author's theory, in particular the asymmetry inherent to aspectual construal and his consequent plea to take numbers rather than events as the primitives structuring our concept of time.
Issues in Morphosyntax
Issues in Morphosyntax - 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 Issues in Morphosyntax write by Peter Ackema. This book was released on 1999-01-01. Issues in Morphosyntax available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This text addresses issues in morphosyntax. It covers areas including: noun incorporation; the morphosyntax of periphrastic participal constructions; derivation of lexical integrity; and mismatches between morphosyntax and morphophonology.
Events, Arguments, and Aspects
Events, Arguments, and Aspects - 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 Events, Arguments, and Aspects write by Klaus Robering. This book was released on 2014-03-15. Events, Arguments, and Aspects available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The verb has often been considered the 'center' of the sentence and has hence always attracted the special attention of the linguist. The present volume collects novel approaches to two classical topics within verbal semantics, namely argument structure and the treatment of time and aspect. The linguistic material covered comes from a broad spectrum of languages including English, German, Danish, Ukrainian, and Australian aboriginal languages; and methods from both cognitive and formal semantics are applied in the analyses presented here. Some of the authors use a variety of event semantics in order to analyze argument structure and aspect whereas others employ ideas coming from object-oriented programming in order to achieve new insights into the way how verbs select their arguments and how events are classified into different types. Both kinds of methods are also used to give accounts of dynamical aspects of semantic interpretation such as coercion and type shifting.
Aspect and Reference Time
Aspect and Reference Time - 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 Aspect and Reference Time write by Olga Borik. This book was released on 2006-08-31. Aspect and Reference Time available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Introduction -- Main theories of aspect (1) : the telicity approach -- Perfectivity in Russian in terms of telicity : testing the hypothesis -- Main theories of aspect (2) : the point of view approach -- Reference time -- Russian aspect in terms of reference time.
Aspectual Inquiries
Aspectual Inquiries - 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 Inquiries write by Paula Kempchinsky. This book was released on 2005-02-14. Aspectual Inquiries available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The study of the linguistic reflexes of aspect has been an active field of research in various sub-disciplines of linguistics, such as syntax, semantics (including discourse theory) and acquisition studies. However, communication and dissemination of results across these various subfields has often been indirect. This volume solves that problem. The different angles brought together here give us a comprehensive picture of the representation of aspect in the mind/brain of the speaker. The papers in this volume represent the results of a workshop on the syntax, semantics and acquisition of aspect held in 2002 whose purpose was to foment active cross-disciplinary communication. A number of the papers examine the syntactic representation of lexical or situation aspect, while others focus on the syntactic interaction of lexical aspect with grammatical aspect, and of grammatical aspect and tense. Other papers examine the role of aspect in discourse representations, while a third group of papers reports on results of empirical studies on the acquisition of aspect in both first and second language acquisition, and patterns of loss of morphosyntactic reflexes of aspect in language attrition. This volume is of interest to researchers and advanced graduate students in syntax, semantics, discourse representation and language acquisition, particularly those working on tense and aspect.
