How To Do Things With Tense And Aspect

Author : Matejka Grgic,Igor Z. Žagar
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 155 pages
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Release : 2020-05-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781527551282

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How to Do Things with Tense and Aspect by Matejka Grgic,Igor Z. Žagar Pdf

Almost all verbs in Slovene (one of the least researched Slavic languages) have two aspectually different forms, the perfective (PF) and the imperfective (IF). But in institutional settings or settings strongly marked with social hierarchy, only the second, the imperfective form, is used by Slovene speakers in a performative sense. Why is that? And what, in fact, has a Slovene speaker said if (s)he has used the imperfective verb in “performative circumstances”? No doubt that (s)he may be in the process of accomplishing such an act. But at the same time, having the possibility of choosing between the PF and the IF form, (s)he may have also indicated that this act hasn’t been accomplished (yet): as long as we are only promising (IF), we have not really promised anything yet, and if we are only promising (IF), we cannot take anything as having been really promised. That was how Stanislav Škrabec, the 19th century Slovene linguist and the central figure of this book, saw the role of verbal aspect within language use. Being caught in such a dilemma, a question inevitably arises: how do we accomplish an act of promise (or any other performative act) in Slovene? That dilemma – whether to use the perfective or imperfective aspect when accomplishing performative acts – may seem more than artificial at first, but it was very much alive among Slovene linguists at the end of the 19th century. And it was that very dilemma that quite unexpectedly gave rise to the foundations of performativity in Slovene, half a century before Austin! In the present book, the authors try to shed light on this controversy that involved different Slovene scholars for about thirty years, and propose a delocutive hypothesis as a solution for the performative dilemma this controversy unveiled.

Author : Robert I. Binnick
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 1128 pages
File Size : 50,5 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 : Viveka Velupillai
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027211989

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An Introduction to Linguistic Typology by Viveka Velupillai Pdf

Offers an introduction to linguistic typology that covers various linguistic domains from phonology and morphology over parts-of-speech, the NP and the VP, to simple and complex clauses, pragmatics and language change. This title also includes a discussion on methodological issues in typology.

Author : Robert I. Binnick,Robert I Binnick
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 579 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9780195062069

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Time and the Verb by Robert I. Binnick,Robert I Binnick Pdf

This guide provides the reader with a broad perspective of grammar, from classical Greek and Latin to the latest proposals in formal semantics.

Author : Eystein Dahl
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 493 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2010-06-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789047440505

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Time, Tense and Aspect in Early Vedic Grammar by Eystein Dahl Pdf

Drawing on insights from formal semantics and linguistic typology, this book presents a comprehensive account of the tense/aspect/mood system in Early Vedic, the language of the Rigveda. It also outlines a theoretical framework for the study of semantics in dead languages.

Author : D. N. Shankara Bhat
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027230522

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The Prominence of Tense, Aspect, and Mood by D. N. Shankara Bhat Pdf

In this monograph, the author argues that natural languages exemplify the language type by assigning prominence to just one of the three verbal categories of tense, aspect and mood.

Author : Constantine R. Campbell
Publisher : Zondervan Academic
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780310150237

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Basics of Verbal Aspect in Biblical Greek by Constantine R. Campbell Pdf

Verbal aspect in the Greek language has been a topic of significant debate in recent scholarship. The majority of scholars now believe that an understanding of verbal aspect is even more important than verb tense (past, present, etc.). Yet there still are no alternative accessible textbooks, both in terms of level and price. In the second edition, Constantine R. Campbell investigates the function of verbal aspect within the New Testament Greek narrative in light of the last fifteen years of the latest scholarship. In Basics of Verbal Aspect in Biblical Greek, Second Edition, Campbell has done a marvelous job in this book of simplifying the concept without getting caught up using terms of linguistics that only experts can understand. The book includes expanded and updated discussion, revised exercises, an answer key, a glossary of key concepts, an appendix covering space and time, and an index of Scriptures cited. Professors and students, at both the undergraduate and graduate levels, will use this is as a supplemental text in both beginning and advanced Greek courses. Pastors that study the Greek text will also appreciate this resource as a supplement to their preaching and teaching.

Author : Michael Lewis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3125243025

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The English Verb by Michael Lewis Pdf

Author : Alessandra Giorgi,Fabio Pianesi
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1997-12-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780195357882

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Tense and Aspect by Alessandra Giorgi,Fabio Pianesi Pdf

The authors bridge the gap between the semantic and syntactic properties of verb tense and aspect, and suggest a unified account of tense and aspect using Chomsky's Principles and Parameters Framework. They compare tense and aspect systems in Romance languages with Germanic ones.

Author : Adeline Patard,Frank Brisard
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2011-07-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027285218

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Cognitive Approaches to Tense, Aspect, and Epistemic Modality by Adeline Patard,Frank Brisard Pdf

This volume addresses problems of semantics regarding the analysis of tense and aspect (TA) markers in a variety of languages, including Arabic, Croatian, English, French, German, Russian, Thai, and Turkish. Its main interest goes out to epistemic uses of such markers, whereby epistemic modality is understood as indicating “a degree of compatibility between the modal world and the factual world” (Declerck). All contributions, moreover, tackle these problems from a more or less cognitive point of view, with some of them insisting on the need to provide a unifying explanation for all usage types, temporal and non-temporal, and all of them accepting the premise that the semantics of TA categories essentially refers to subjective, rather than objective, concerns. The volume also represents one of the first attempts to gather accounts of TA marking (in various languages) that are explicitly set within the framework of Cognitive Grammar. Ultimately, this volume aims to contribute to establishing an awareness that modal meaning elements are directly relevant to the analysis of the grammar of time.

Author : Dalila Ayoun
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 42,5 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.

Author : Marcel den Dikken
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2013-07-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781107354586

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The Cambridge Handbook of Generative Syntax by Marcel den Dikken Pdf

Syntax – the study of sentence structure – has been at the centre of generative linguistics from its inception and has developed rapidly and in various directions. The Cambridge Handbook of Generative Syntax provides a historical context for what is happening in the field of generative syntax today, a survey of the various generative approaches to syntactic structure available in the literature and an overview of the state of the art in the principal modules of the theory and the interfaces with semantics, phonology, information structure and sentence processing, as well as linguistic variation and language acquisition. This indispensable resource for advanced students, professional linguists (generative and non-generative alike) and scholars in related fields of inquiry presents a comprehensive survey of the field of generative syntactic research in all its variety, written by leading experts and providing a proper sense of the range of syntactic theories calling themselves generative.

Author : Stefan Th. Gries
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2017-03-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789004336223

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Ten Lectures on Quantitative Approaches in Cognitive Linguistics by Stefan Th. Gries Pdf

This series of lectures provides an overview of the author's work on quantitative applications in cognitive linguistics by discussing a wide range of studies involving corpus-linguistic as well as experimental work. After a discussion of how corpus linguistics, cognitive linguistics, and psycholinguistics relate to each other, the author discusses empirical and statistical studies of a wide variety of phenomena including morphophonology (morphological blends and alliteration effects), corpus-based cognitive semantics, frequency and association at the syntax-lexis interface. The book concludes with chapters exemplifying the role that bottom-up approaches can take, the role of statistical methods more generally, and the role of converging evidence from corpus and experimental data.The lectures for this book were given at The China International Forum on Cognitive Linguistics in May 2013. In the e-book version all handouts have been made available at the back. All audio of the lectures as well as the handouts are available for free, in Open Access, here.

Author : Paul J. Hopper
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1982-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027228659

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Tense-aspect by Paul J. Hopper Pdf

The verbal categories of tense and aspect have been studied traditionally from the point of view of their reference to the timing and time-perspective of the speaker s reported experience. They are universal categories both in terms of the semantic-functional domain they cover as well as in terms of their syntactic and morphological realization. Nevertheless, their treatment in contemporary linguistics is often restricted and narrow based, often involving mere recapitulatoin of traditional semantic and morphotactic studies.The present volume arises out of a symposium held at UCLA in May 1979, in which a group of linguists gathered to re-open the subject of tense-and-aspect from a variety of perspectives, including in addition to the traditional semantics also discourse-pragmatics, psycholinguistics, child language, Creolization and diachronic change. The languages discussed in this volume include Russian, Turkish, English, Indonesian, Ameslan, Eskimo, various Creoles, Mandari, Hebrew, Bantu and others. The emphasis throughout is not only on the description of language-specific tense-aspect phenomenon, but more on the search for universal categories and principles which underlie the cross-language variety of tense and aspect. In particular, many of the participants address themselves to the relationship between propositional-semantics and discourse-pragmatics, in so far as these two functional domains interact within tense-aspect systems.

Author : Dagmar Divjak,Petar Milin
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2023-07-31
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789004532816

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Ten Lectures on Language as Cognition by Dagmar Divjak,Petar Milin Pdf

Merging insights from cognitive linguistic theories of language and learning theories originating within psychology, Divjak and Milin present a new paradigm that has computational modelling at its core. They showcase the power of this interdisciplinary approach for linguistic theory, methodology and description. Through a series of detailed case studies that model usage of the English article system, the Polish aspectual system, English tense/aspect contrasts and the Serbian case system they show how computational models anchored in learning can provide a simple and comprehensive account of how intricate phenomena that have long defied a unified treatment could be learned from exposure to usage alone. As such, their models form the basis for a first rigorous test of a core assumption of usage-based linguistics: that of the emergence of structure from use.