Aspectuality And Temporality

Author : Zlatka Guentchéva
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 740 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2016-03-09
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027267610

Get Book

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 : Hendrik Jacob Verkuyl
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Generative grammar
ISBN : OCLC:848702667

Get Book

A Theory of Aspectuality by Hendrik Jacob Verkuyl Pdf

Author : Laura A. Michaelis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2002-01-04
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781134730063

Get Book

Aspectual Grammar and Past Time Reference by Laura A. Michaelis Pdf

This study presents a semantic framework for analysing all aspectual constructions in terms of the event state distinction, and describes the grammatical expression of aspectual meaning in terms of a theory of grammatical constructions. In this theory, grammatical constructions, like words, are conventionalized form-meaning pairs, which are best described not only with respect to their intrinsic semantic values, but also with respect to the functional oppositions in which they participate.

Author : Janine Klinge
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 49 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2011-10-10
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9783656024323

Get Book

Aspectuality in English - Temporal Perspectives and Properties by Janine Klinge Pdf

Bachelor Thesis from the year 2011 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 1,3, Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel (Englisches Seminar), language: English, abstract: This paper aims at a closer examination of aspectuality in English. It illustrates the importance of a category which has only scarcely received attention in the study of the English language (cf. Binnick 1991). When it comes to the analysis of situations, the focus is on the verbal category 'tense,' which relates the temporal location of the situation to other points in time. The category of 'aspect' is closely connected to tense, because it provides important information about the internal temporal structure of situations. Nonetheless it is often less familiar to speakers of the English language, referring to, among others, the works of Comrie (1967), Brinton (1988), Binnick (1991) and Kortmann (1991). According to their studies, English lacks formal markers of aspect, whereas the realization of tense in English is quite obvious and thus much discussed. 1.1 Central Questions Based on Binnick's (1991) description of 'aspectuality,' it is necessary to clarify this concept in detail. The central questions for this examination will be: 1. How can aspectuality be inferred from utterances when English lacks aspectual markers? 2. Are there systematic approaches that are concerned with the interaction of 'aspect' and 'Aktionsart' as defined by Comrie (1976) and Vendler (1957)? 3. In which ways do aspectual properties influence or change the semantic meaning of utterances and why? 4. What are the combination options of aspectual perspectives and properties and are there any restrictions consequent on the interaction of different aspectual values? This paper serves not just to answer these questions, but also tries to differentiate between the various subcategories of aspectuality,' which are in general difficult to distinguish properly. [...]

Author : Henk J. Verkuyl,H. J. Verkuyl
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1996-05-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0521564522

Get Book

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 : Martin Haspelmath
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 873 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110114232

Get Book

Language Typology and Language Universals by Martin Haspelmath Pdf

This series of HANDBOOKS OF LINGUISTICS AND COMMUNICATION SCIENCE is designed to illuminate a field which not only includes general linguistics and the study of linguistics as applied to specific languages, but also covers those more recent areas which have developed from the increasing body of research into the manifold forms of communicative action and interaction. For "classic" linguistics there appears to be a need for a review of the state of the art which will provide a reference base for the rapid advances in research undertaken from a variety of theoretical standpoints, while in the more recent branches of communication science the handbooks will give researchers both an verview and orientation. To attain these objectives, the series will aim for a standard comparable to that of the leading handbooks in other disciplines, and to this end will strive for comprehensiveness, theoretical explicitness, reliable documentation of data and findings, and up-to-date methodology. The editors, both of the series and of the individual volumes, and the individual contributors, are committed to this aim. The languages of publication are English, German, and French. The main aim of the series is to provide an appropriate account of the state of the art in the various areas of linguistics and communication science covered by each of the various handbooks; however no inflexible pre-set limits will be imposed on the scope of each volume. The series is open-ended, and can thus take account of further developments in the field. This conception, coupled with the necessity of allowing adequate time for each volume to be prepared with the necessary care, means that there is no set time-table for the publication of the whole series. Each volume will be a self-contained work, complete in itself. The order in which the handbooks are published does not imply any rank ordering, but is determined by the way in which the series is organized; the editor of the whole series enlist a competent editor for each individual volume. Once the principal editor for a volume has been found, he or she then has a completely free hand in the choice of co-editors and contributors. The editors plan each volume independently of the others, being governed only by general formal principles. The series editor only intervene where questions of delineation between individual volumes are concerned. It is felt that this (modus operandi) is best suited to achieving the objectives of the series, namely to give a competent account of the present state of knowledge and of the perception of the problems in the area covered by each volume.

Author : Sarah Dessì Schmid
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2019-12-16
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9783110564105

Get Book

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 : Olga Borik
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2006-08-31
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780191516245

Get Book

Aspect and Reference Time by Olga Borik Pdf

This book investigates the temporal structure of language. It deals with central issues in the understanding of tense and aspect, proposes a new approach to the main problems in the area, and seeks to establish the universal semantic properties of two important and contentious aspectual categories, perfectivity and imperfectivity. Dr Borik develops an original theory of aspect. She shows how this accounts for aspectual categories in Russian, and that it can used to compare Russian to other languages where similar aspectual issues arise. She devotes particular attention to English, a language which appears to have no grammatical categories of perfectivity and imperfectivity. She argues that the semantic properties established for the Russian tense-aspect system are reflected in English, and reveals parallels in the expression of temporal and aspectual information in the two languages. Aspect and Reference Time will interest all scholars of the syntax, semantics, and pragmatics of aspect and tense. The author's clear exposition and cross-linguistic approach make it a useful basis for courses at graduate level.

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

Get Book

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 : Werner Abraham,Elisabeth Leiss
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027229922

Get Book

Modality-aspect Interfaces by Werner Abraham,Elisabeth Leiss Pdf

The main topics pursued in this volume are based on empirical insights derived from Germanic: logical and typological dispositions about aspect-modality links. These are probed in a variety of non-related languages. The logically establishable links are the following: Modal verbs are aspect sensitive in the selection of their infinitival complements – embedded infinitival perfectivity implies root modal reading, whereas embedded infinitival imperfectivity triggers epistemic readings. However, in marked contexts such as negated ones, the aspectual affinities of modal verbs are neutralized or even subject to markedness inversion. All of this suggests that languages that do not, or only partially, bestow upon full modal verb paradigms seek to express modal variations in terms of their aspect oppositions. This typological tenet is investigated in a variety of languages from Indo-European (German, Slavic, Armenian), African, Asian, Amerindian, and Creoles. Seeming deviations and idiosyncrasies in the interaction between aspect and modality turn out to be highly rule-based.

Author : Maria Bittner
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2014-04-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781118584033

Get Book

Temporality by Maria Bittner Pdf

Temporality surveys the ways in which languages ofdifferent types refer to past, present, and future events, throughan in-depth examination of four major language types: tense-basedEnglish, tense-aspect-based Polish, aspect-based Chinese, andmood-based Kalaallisut. Cutting-edge research on directly compositional dynamicsemantics of languages with and without grammatical tense New in-depth analysis of temporal, aspectual, modal, as well asnominal discourse reference Presents a novel logical language for representing linguisticmeaning (Update with Centering) Develops a unified theory of tense, aspect, mood, and person asdifferent types of ‘grammatical centering systems’

Author : Martin Trautwein
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2011-12-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110919523

Get Book

The Time Window of Language by Martin Trautwein Pdf

Focusing on English and German examples, the study deals with the temporal interpretation of texts in non-aspect languages. The author presumes that a coherent interpretation of a text results from a complex interaction between linguistic and extra-linguistic information. The study presents a unified account of the semantics of temporality which treats the varying grammatical factors (aspectual classes, tense, and discourse structure) in a systematic way.

Author : Stanley E. Porter,Matthew Brook O'Donnell
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2023-12-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567709868

Get Book

Discourse Analysis and the Greek New Testament by Stanley E. Porter,Matthew Brook O'Donnell Pdf

This volume examines and outlines a Systemic Functional Linguistic (SFL) model of discourse analysis and its relationship to New Testament Greek. The book reflects upon how SFL has grown as a field since it was first introduced to New Testament Greek studies by Stanley E. Porter in the 1980s. Porter and Matthew Brook O'Donnell first introduce basic concepts regarding discourse analysis and the major approaches towards it within New Testament studies. They then provide a detailed exploration of discourse analysis in terms of the textual metafunction, beginning with an introduction to the architecture of language within SFL, before exploring several individual elements within it. By focusing upon these individual components – in particular, theme and information structure, markedness and prominence, and coherence and cohesive harmony – Porter and O'Donnell introduce and exemplify the major resources of the textual metafunction.

Author : Haspelmath Martin
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 874 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2008-07-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110194036

Get Book

Language Typology and Language Universals / Sprachtypologie und sprachliche Universalien / La typologie des langues et les universaux linguistiques. 1. Halbband by Haspelmath Martin Pdf

This handbook provides a comprehensive and thorough survey of our current insights into the diversity and unity found across the 6000 languages of this planet. The 125 articles include inter alia chapters on the patterns and limits of variation manifested by analogous structures, constructions and linguistic devices across languages (e.g. word order, tense and aspect, inflection, color terms and syllable structure). Other chapters cover the history, methodology and the theory of typology, as well as the relationship between language typology and other disciplines. The authors of the individual sections and chapters are for the most part internationally known experts on the relevant topics. The vast majority of the articles are written in English, some in French or German. The handbook is not only intended for the expert in the fields of typology and language universals, but for all of those interested in linguistics. It is specifically addressed to all those who specialize in individual languages, providing basic orientation for their analysis and placing each language within the space of what is possible and common in the languages of the world.

Author : Alexander V. Bondarko
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1991-07-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027277794

Get Book

Functional Grammar by Alexander V. Bondarko Pdf

Every grammar has to a greater or lesser extent a functional aspect. In this book, Bondarko provides a comprehensive discourse on the theoretical foundations of grammar, concentrating on functional-semantic fields, with emphasis on the diversity of their structural types. Criteria for distinguishing between linguistically structured meaning and non-linguistic cognitive content is developed in a discussion on “the Category of Aspect and its Environment” which includes an analysis of aspectual opposition according to the Prague School. Special attention is also paid to analysing polycentric fields and, specifically, taxis in the Russian language. The book is divided into three sections: Functional Grammar: Subject Matter and Goals — Structural Types of Functional-Semantic Fields — Categorial Situations. This book is intended for those interested in the general theory of linguistics.