Aspectual Inquiries

Author : Paula Kempchinsky,Roumyana Slabakova
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2005-02-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1402030320

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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.

Author : Paula Kempchinsky,Roumyana Slabakova
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2005-02-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1402030355

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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. 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.

Author : Alfredo García-Pardo
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027260512

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Stative Inquiries by Alfredo García-Pardo Pdf

This monograph studies stative predicates from a neo-constructionist perspective and integrates them in a comprehensive theory of event and argument structure. It focuses on two sets of stative verbs: govern-type verbs and object experiencer psychological verbs. For govern-verbs, it shows how notions such as causativity and resultativity can also be ingredients of stative predicates and be derived syntactically. The consequences of this proposal are further pursued in a crosslinguistic investigation of adjectival passives, which are stative predicates of sorts. For object-experiencer psychological verbs, it is shown that their Experiencer theta-role can and should be derived as an aspectual entailment mediated by prepositional structure. In defending this view, this monograph reveals a syntactic parallelism between location verbs and object-experiencer psychological verbs in many languages that has hitherto gone unnoticed. This book will primarily appeal to researchers interested in lexical aspect and its connection to morphosyntax.

Author : Lisa deMena Travis
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2010-09-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789048185504

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Inner Aspect by Lisa deMena Travis Pdf

Finishing this book was one of the most difficult things I have ever done. It took far too long from original idea to page proofs and suffered from being relegated to small corners of my life. It was very rarely on the front burner. Since I started working on this topic in 1991, there has been a lot of interesting work done on the areas of the articulation of VP, phrase structure mirroring event structure, the use of functional categories to represent Aktionsart, and many other areas that the research presented here touches on. The hardest thing about doing a project of this size is to accept that not everyone’s ideas can be addressed and not all new research can be incorporated. The only way that I have found it possible to let this book go to press is to reread the Preface to Events in the Semantics of English by Terence Parsons where he writes, ‘‘The goal of this book is neither completeness nor complete accuracy; it is to get some interesting proposals into the public arena for others to criticize, develop, and build on. ’’ My aim in this book is to make connections between various accounts of various constructions in various languages at the risk of treating each of these too lightly. I am grateful to too many people to thank them individually.

Author : Jonathan E. MacDonald
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027255167

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The Syntactic Nature of Inner Aspect by Jonathan E. MacDonald Pdf

This book explores the syntactic nature of inner aspect from a minimalist perspective. It begins with the new observation that there are two independent properties at play in English inner aspect: the object-to-event mapping and event structure. From a discussion of English statives and Russian, it is concluded that the former property is variant and the latter universal; a minimalist conception of language variation arises naturally in this context. Additionally, an exploration of a lexical derivational approach to achievements leads to the expectation that there are no accomplishments in the lexicon. A detailed look at idioms suggests that this expectation is met. These results support the division of labor between an operative lexicon and narrow syntax in aspectual composition; this naturally poses a problem for (neo-)constructional approaches to inner aspect. Finally, one conclusion reached about the syntactic nature of inner aspect regards the object-to-event mapping: it is a purely syntactic phenomenon.

Author : David Brian Roby
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2009-11-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027288943

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Aspect and the Categorization of States by David Brian Roby Pdf

In this work, the Spanish copulae ser and estar are argued to be aspectual morphemes. Their binary opposition reflects the universal aspectual values [±Perfective], which are the same ones overtly expressed by the preterite and imperfect past tense forms in Spanish. It can therefore be shown that different types of states, just like different types of events, can be categorized based on their aspectual composition. Additionally, the inherent semantic differences between events and states can be accounted for by analyzing aspect as applying to events internally and to states externally. A useful resource for the beginning linguist as well as the most seasoned analyst, this work is written in language that is easy to understand while remaining faithful to all of the appropriate relevant technical terminology. Anyone who is seriously interested in exploring why the Spanish verbs ser and estar are used the way they are should read this book.

Author : Joanna Blaszczak,Anastasia Giannakidou,Dorota Klimek-Jankowska,Krzysztof Migdalski
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 457 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2017-01-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780226363660

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Mood, Aspect, Modality Revisited by Joanna Blaszczak,Anastasia Giannakidou,Dorota Klimek-Jankowska,Krzysztof Migdalski Pdf

Over the past several decades, linguistic theorizing of tense, aspect, and mood (TAM), along with a strongly growing body of crosslinguistic studies, has revealed complexity in the data that challenges traditional distinctions and treatments of these categories. Mood, Aspect, Modality Revisited argues that it’s time to revisit our conventional assumptions and reconsider our foundational questions: What exactly is a linguistic category? What kinds of categories do labels such as “subjunctive,” “imperative,” “future,” and “modality” truly refer to? In short, how categorical are categories? Current literature assumes a straightforward link between grammatical category and semantic function, and descriptions of well-studied languages have cultivated a sense of predictability in patterns over time. As the editors and contributors of Mood, Aspect, Modality Revisited prove, however, this predictability and stability vanish in the study of lesser-known patterns and languages. The ten provocative essays gathered here present fascinating cutting-edge research demonstrating that the traditional grammatical distinctions are ultimately fluid—and perhaps even illusory. Developing groundbreaking and highly original theories, the contributors in this volume seek to unravel more general, fundamental principles of TAM that can help us better understand the nature of linguistic representations.

Author : Robert I. Binnick
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 1128 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2012-06-14
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780195381979

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The Oxford Handbook of Tense and Aspect by Robert I. Binnick Pdf

This Handbook is a comprehensive, authoritative, and accessible guide to the topics and theories that current form the front line of research into tense, aspect, and related areas.

Author : Henk J. Verkuyl,Henriette De Swart,Angeliek Van Hout
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 48,6 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 : Emmanuelle Labeau,Inès Saddour
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2012-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789401207188

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Tense, aspect and mood in first and second language acquisition by Emmanuelle Labeau,Inès Saddour Pdf

Tense, aspect and mood have attracted much attention in the areas of both first and second language acquisition, but scholars in the two disciplines often fail to learn from each other. Western European languages have also been the focus of most studies, but there would be lessons to learn from less studied languages. This volume offers new insights on tense, aspect and mood by bringing together the findings of first and second language acquisition, and comparing child and adult, monolingual and multilingual learning processes that are approached from various theoretical points of view. In addition, it spans over a wide range of less studied languages (Bulgarian, Hebrew, Korean, Russian), and Western European languages are studied from new angles.

Author : Susan D. Rothstein
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2008-03-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027291585

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Theoretical and Crosslinguistic Approaches to the Semantics of Aspect by Susan D. Rothstein Pdf

The papers in this volume investigate the semantics of aspect from both a theoretical and a crosslinguistic point of view, in a wide range of languages from a number of different language families. The papers are all informed by the belief that a thorough exposure to the expression of aspect crosslinguistically is crucial for progress in understanding how the semantics of aspect works and what the semantic basis of aspectual distinctions is. The languages discussed include Russian, English, Dutch, Hebrew, Mandarin, Japanese and Kalaallisut. The issues discussed in this volume include the centrality of measuring and counting in an understanding of telicity; the importance of the singular/plural distinction in the study of aspect; the importance of homogeneity as a property of event types; the flexibility of lexical classes; and the interaction between expressions of aspect and the particular morphosyntactic structure of a language.

Author : Martin Howard,Pascale Leclercq
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2017-02-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027266491

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Tense-Aspect-Modality in a Second Language by Martin Howard,Pascale Leclercq Pdf

Situated within the long-established domain of temporality research in Second Language Acquisition, this book aims to provide an update on recent research directions in the field through a range of papers which explore relatively new territory. Those areas include the expression of modality and counterfactuality, the effect of first language transfer, aspectuo-temporal comprehension, aspectuo-temporal marking at a wider discursive level, and methodological issues in the study of the acquisition of aspect. The studies presented explore English and French as second languages, involving both child and adult learners from a range of first language backgrounds in both instructed and naturalistic learning contexts. The studies draw on both spoken and written data which explore various facets of the learners’ second language comprehension and production. The volume offers new, but complementary insights to previous research, as well as pointing to directions for future research in this burgeoning field of study.

Author : Claudia Maienborn,Klaus von Heusinger,Paul Portner
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 989 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Semantics
ISBN : 9783110184709

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Semantics by Claudia Maienborn,Klaus von Heusinger,Paul Portner Pdf

Author : M. Rafael Salaberry,Llorenç Comajoan
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2013-03-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781934078167

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Research Design and Methodology in Studies on L2 Tense and Aspect by M. Rafael Salaberry,Llorenç Comajoan Pdf

Research Design and Methodology in Studies on Second Language Tense and Aspect provides an up-to-date review of past and current methodologies for the study of the L2 acquisition of tense and aspect. More specifically, the book addresses the following issues related to the design of studies for research in tense and aspect: Theoretical frameworks (e.g., Are research questions investigated within one theoretical approach incompatible with other approaches?) Elicitation procedures (Do different types of tasks elicit different types of tense-aspect data?) Coding of data (e.g. How are lexical categories defined and coded?) Data analysis (e.g., What statistical tests are more appropriate to analyze language data?) The volume provides new insights into the study of L2 tense-aspect by bringing together well renowned scholars with experience in the research design of research this area of the field.

Author : Dalila Ayoun
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2013-07-04
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027271785

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The Second Language Acquisition of French Tense, Aspect, Mood and Modality by Dalila Ayoun Pdf

Temporal-aspectual systems have a great potential of informing our understanding of the developing competence of second language learners. So far, the vast majority of empirical studies investigating L2 acquisition have largely focused on past temporality, neglecting the acquisition of the expression of the present and future temporalities with rare exceptions (aside from ESL learners), leaving unanswered the question of how the investigation of different types of temporality may inform our understanding of the acquisition of temporal, aspectual and mood systems as a whole. This monograph addresses this question by focusing on three main objectives: a) to contribute to the already impressive body of research in the L2 acquisition of tense, aspect and mood/modality from a generative perspective, and in so doing to present a more complete picture of the processes of L2 acquisition in general; b) to bridge the gap between linguistic theory and L2 acquisition; c) to make empirical findings more accessible to language instructors by proposing concrete pedagogical applications.