Theoretical and Crosslinguistic Approaches to the Semantics of Aspect

Rothstein, Susan ; editor :

ISBN 10: 9027233748 / ISBN 13: 9789027233745

Published by John Benjamins Pub. Co. (2008), Amsterdam / Philadelphia, 2008

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24x16cm, viii,453 pp, Series: Linguistik Aktuell / Linguistics Today, vol. 110. Contents :Lexicalized meaning and the internal temporal structure of events / Malka Rappaport Hovav -- Telicity, atomicity, and the Vendler classification of verbs / Susan Rothstein -- Aspects of a typology of direction / Joost Zwarts -- 1066: on the differences between the tense- perspective-aspect systems of English and Dutch / Fred Landman -- Tenses for the living and the dead: lifetime inferences reconsidered / Anita Mittwoch -- Formal and informal semantics of telicity / Elena Paducheva and Mati Pentus -- Events and maximalization: the case of telicity and perfectivity / Hana Filip -- Aspect and bounded quantity complements in Russian / Hans Robert Mehlig -- Negation, intensionality, and aspect: interaction with NP semantics / Barbara H. Partee -- Habituality and the habitual aspect / Nora Boneh and Edit Doron -- Aspectual universals of temporal anaphora / Maria Bittner -- The syntax and semantics of change/ transition: evidence from Mandarin Chinese / Hooi Ling Soh -- Bare nouns and telicity in Japanese / Keiko Yoshida.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Theoretical and Crosslinguistic Approaches to the Semantics of Aspect
• Publisher: John Benjamins Pub. Co. (2008), Amsterdam / Philadelphia
• Publication Date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 9027233748
• ISBN 13: 9789027233745
• Binding: orig. boards
• Condition: Minor wear. VG.
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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.