Theoretical and Crosslinguistic Approaches to the Semantics of Aspect Linguistik Aktuell Linguistics Today 110th Edition by Susan Rothstein ISBN 9027291586 9789027291585

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ISBN 10: 9027291586

ISBN 13: 9789027291585 

Author: Susan Rothstein 

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.

Table of contents:

1. Introduction

2. Lexicalized meaning and the internal temporal structure of events

3. Telicity, atomicity and the Vendler classification of verbs

4. Aspects of a typology of direction

5. 1066: On the differences between the tense-perspective-aspect systems of English and Dutch

6. Tenses for the living and the dead: Lifetime inferences reconsidered

7. Formal and informal semantics of telicity

8. Events and maximalization: The case of telicity and perfectivity

9. Aspect and bounded quantity complements in Russian

10. Negation, intensionality, and aspect: Interaction with NP semantics

11. Habituality and the habitual aspect

12. Aspectual universals of temporal anaphora

13. The syntax and semantics of change/transition: Evidence from Mandarin Chinese

14. Bare nouns and telicity in Japanese

15. Index

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