A Theory Of Aspectuality

Author : Henk J. Verkuyl,H. J. Verkuyl
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1996-05-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0521564522

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A Theory of Aspectuality by Henk J. Verkuyl,H. J. Verkuyl Pdf

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.

Author : Henk J. Verkuyl,Henriette De Swart,Angeliek Van Hout
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2006-01-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781402032325

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Perspectives on Aspect by Henk J. Verkuyl,Henriette De Swart,Angeliek Van Hout Pdf

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.

Author : Zlatka Guentchéva
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 740 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2016-03-09
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027267610

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Aspectuality and Temporality by Zlatka Guentchéva Pdf

This volume brings together a collection of articles exploring tense and aspect phenomena in a variety of non-related languages: Indo-European (Albanian, Bulgarian, Armenian, English, Norwegian, Hindi), Hamito-Semitic (Berber, Zenaga Berber, Arabic varieties, Neo-Aramaic), African (Wolof, Langi), Asian (Badaga, Korean, Mongolian languages – Khalkha, Buriat, Kalmuck – Thaï, Tibetic languages), Amerindian (Yucatec Maya, Sikuani), Greenlandic (Eskimo) and Oceanian (Nêlêmwa). Each article is grounded in solid empirical knowledge. It offers an in-depth study of aspectual and temporal devices as manifested in many diverse and complex ways from a cross-linguistic perspective and seeks to contribute to our understanding of the domain under consideration and more broadly to linguistic typology and theoretical linguistics, especially the enunciative approach. The book gives readers access to a collection of data and is of particular interest to scholars working on aspectuality and temporality, on pragmatics, on areal linguistics and on typology.

Author : Henk J. Verkuyl
Publisher : Center for the Study of Language and Information Publications
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1999-09-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1575861992

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Aspectual Issues by Henk J. Verkuyl Pdf

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.

Author : Hongzhi Xu
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2021-07-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789811634086

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The Chinese Aspectual System by Hongzhi Xu Pdf

This book presents a theoretical study on aspect in Chinese, including both situation and viewpoint aspects. Unlike previous studies, which have largely classified linguistic units into different situation types, this study defines a set of ontological event types that are conceptually universal and on the basis of which different languages employ various linguistic devices to describe such events. To do so, it focuses on a particular component of events, namely the viewpoint aspect. It includes and discusses a wealth of examples to show how such ontological events are realized in Chinese. In addition, the study discusses how Chinese modal verbs and adverbs affect the distribution of viewpoint aspects associated with certain situation types. In turn, the book demonstrates how the proposed linguistic theory can be used in a computational context. Simply identifying events in terms of the verbs and their arguments is insufficient for real situations such as understanding the factivity and the logical/temporal relations between events. The proposed framework offers the possibility of analyzing events in Chinese text, yielding deep semantic information.

Author : Sarah Dessì Schmid
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2019-12-16
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9783110564105

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Aspectuality by Sarah Dessì Schmid Pdf

This synchronic study presents a new onomasiological, frame-theoretical model for the description, classification and theoretical analysis of the cross-linguistic content category aspectuality. It deals specifically with those pieces of information, which, in their interplay, constitute the aspectual value of states of affairs. The focus is on Romance Languages, although the model can be applied just as well to other languages, in that it is underpinned by a principle grounded in a fundamental cognitive ability: the delimitation principle. Unlike traditional approaches, which generally have a semasiological orientation and strictly adhere to a semantic differentiation between grammatical aspect and lexical aspect (Aktionsart), this study makes no such differentiation and understands these as merely different formal realisations of one and the same content category: aspectuality.

Author : Paula Kempchinsky,Roumyana Slabakova
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2006-03-04
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781402030338

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Aspectual Inquiries by Paula Kempchinsky,Roumyana Slabakova Pdf

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. The different angles brought together 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.

Author : Francis G. H. Pang
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2016-02-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004310889

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Revisiting Aspect and Aktionsart by Francis G. H. Pang Pdf

In Revisiting Aspect and Aktionsart, Francis G.H. Pang employs a corpus approach to analyze the relationship between Greek aspect and Aktionsart.

Author : Stanley E. Porter,Gregory P. Fewster,Christopher D. Land
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004309364

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Modeling Biblical Language by Stanley E. Porter,Gregory P. Fewster,Christopher D. Land Pdf

Modeling Biblical Language collects the best linguistic scholarship of present and former members of the McMaster Divinity College Linguistics Circle, addressing a variety of interpretive and theoretical issues facing Old/New Testament studies from the perspective of modern linguistic theory.

Author : Rosanna Benacchio,Alessio Muro,Svetlana Slavkova
Publisher : Firenze University Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9788864536972

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The role of prefixes in the formation of aspectuality by Rosanna Benacchio,Alessio Muro,Svetlana Slavkova Pdf

Author : Barbara Meisterernst
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2014-12-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110339543

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Tense and Aspect in Han Period Chinese by Barbara Meisterernst Pdf

Many grammatical issues of Archaic and Medieval Chinese still lack a comprehensive analysis. The book provides the first thorough investigation of the syntactic and semantic constraints of the linguistic categories tense and aspect and their relation with the lexical aspect of the verb in Han period Chinese. The author uncovers fascinating details of a language with a highly restricted verbal morphology.

Author : Henk J. Verkuyl
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2021-10-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781108839280

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The Compositional Nature of Tense, Mood and Aspect by Henk J. Verkuyl Pdf

A linguistic view of how natural language speakers package and open information, to deal with the expression of time.

Author : Bas Aarts,April McMahon
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 826 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781405178402

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The Handbook of English Linguistics by Bas Aarts,April McMahon Pdf

The Handbook of English Linguistics is a collection ofarticles written by leading specialists on all core areas ofEnglish linguistics that provides a state-of-the-art account ofresearch in the field. Brings together articles from the core areas of Englishlinguistics, including syntax, phonetics, phonology, morphology, aswell as variation, discourse, stylistics and usage Written by specialists from around the world Provides an introduction to a key area of English Linguisticsand includes a discussion of the most recent theoretical anddescriptive research, as well as extensive bibliographicreferences

Author : Bettina Zeisler
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 1012 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2011-06-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110908183

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Relative Tense and Aspectual Values in Tibetan Languages by Bettina Zeisler Pdf

This study presents a comparative approach to a universal theory of TENSE, ASPECT and MOOD, combining the methods of comparative and historical linguistics, fieldwork, text linguistics, and philology. The parts of the book discuss and describe (i) the concepts of TENSE, ASPECT and MOOD; (ii) the Tibetan system of RELATIVE TENSE and aspectual values, with main sections on Old and Classical Tibetan, “Lhasa” Tibetan, and East Tibetan (Amdo and Kham); and (iii) West Tibetan (Ladakhi, Purik, Balti); Part (iv) presents the comparative view. Discussing the similarities and differences of temporal and aspectual concepts, the study rejects the general claim that ASPECT is a linguistic universal. A new linguistic concept, FRAMING, is introduced in order to account for the aspect-like conceptualisations found in, e.g., English. The concept of RELATIVE TENSE or taxis, may likewise not be universal. Among the Tibetan varieties, West Tibetan is unique in having fully grammaticalized the concept of ABSOLUTE TENSE. West Tibetan is compared diachronically with Old and Classical Tibetan (documented since the mid 8th century) and synchronically with several contemporary Tibetan varieties. The grammaticalized forms of each variety are described on the basis of their employment in discourse. The underlying general function of the Tibetan verbal system is thus shown to be that of RELATIVE TENSE. Secondary aspectual functions are described for restricted contexts. A special focus on the pragmatic or metaphorical use of present tense constructions in Tibetan leads to a typology of narrative conventions. The last part also offers some suggestions for the reconstruction of the Proto-Tibetan verb system.

Author : C.S. Smith
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 479 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2013-03-09
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789401579117

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The Parameter of Aspect by C.S. Smith Pdf

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.