Gepubliceerd in 1993 door cambridge university press. Imperfective aspect is used for situations conceived as existing continuously or repetitively as time flows i was helping him. Articles contain overviews of the development of the field andor present the state of the art of current research, suggesting. Click download or read online button to get a theory of aspectuality book now. A theory of aspectuality download ebook pdf, epub, tuebl. Diode theory what is a diode, or semiconductor for that matter. Process philosophy stanford encyclopedia of philosophy.
Extraction out of adjectival secondary predicates in. When pa is affixed to rase, it introduces an actual termination point. Project muse the handbook of contemporary semantic. It is the aspectual properties of sentences in natural languages which allow the user to express temporal structure, and henk verkuyl here presents a unified. Distributed for center for the study of language and information. Pdf a theory of aspectuality henk verkuyl academia. A theory of aspectuality draws together into a coherent whole the authors thinking on the subject over the last twenty years, and will interest all those working on aspect and the semantics of noun phrases. Nouns affect aspect syntactically university of arizona. A read is counted each time someone views a publication summary such as the title, abstract, and list of authors, clicks on a figure, or views or downloads the fulltext. Henk verkuyl presents here a theory about aspectual properties of sentences in natural languages. Creole genesis and the acquisition of grammar the case of haitian creole this study focuses on the cognitive processes involved in creole genesis relexi. The development of dynamicity in the acquisition of spanish. Verkuyl assumes a discrete structure of times see above, t1, t2 etc. Binary tense theory adopt the te winkels intuition that the temporal interpretation of utterances can be described by means of three binary features.
Issues in semantics measuring propositions and events university of maryland, spring 2006 syllabus room marie mount hall 1401g time tuesdays, 9am12noon. Introduction the purpose of this article is to contribute to a better understanding of why it is that dutch speakers learning spanish make specific mistakes in the domain of temporality and aspectuality. Aspectuality composition terminativity drt aspectual classes state event. It concerns the internal temporal constituency of a type of situation denoted by a given predicate cf. For the details of the plusprinciple, see verkuyl 1993. As far as we are aware, the work reported here is the. Verkuyl henk verkuyl is emeritus professor of linguistics at utrecht university. 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. Lexical aspect is distinguished from grammatical aspect. Extraction out of adjectival secondary predicates in english. A diode is a device that acts like a conductor since it allows current to pass in one direction known as forward biasing and it. Articles contain overviews of the development of the field andor present the state of. Chapter 2 contrast between aspectual systems in l2. The verb phrase is therefore interpreted as telic, and, crucially, the internal argument must be interpreted as definite.
Aspectuality and temporality download ebook pdf, epub. Nouns affect aspect syntactically inner aspect, aspectual affect of nouns, slavic, english, syntaxsemantics interface of space, i simply mention herebut will explicate the details oftwo prominent semantic proposals, which cannot account for the combination in 5a. If a conductor is suppose to conduct current does that mean a semiconductor partially conducts current. This paper discusses some of the ways in which the notion of compositionality is understood in the literature. Creole genesis and the acquisition of grammar the case of. Perspectives on aspect by henk verkuyl english hardcover book free shipping. What evidence is there for determining a verbs aspectual class membership. This paper develops an analysis of aspect shift and applies it to french and english. According to doubleaspect theory, the mental and the material are different aspects or attributes of a unitary reality, which itself is neither mental nor material. Event structure without naive physics oxford handbooks.
His main research interest has been the semantics of tense and aspect, resulting in work including on the compositional nature of the aspects 1972, a theory of aspectuality 1993, aspectual issues 1999, and binary tense 2008. Depending on time and interest, we might also or instead. Chierchia 1998 proposes that languages vary in terms of what they allow their nps to denote. His main research interest has been the semantics of tense and aspect resulting in work including on the compositional nature of the aspects 1972, a theory of aspectuality 1993, aspectual issues 1998 and binary tense 2008. In the western tradition it is the greek theoretician heraclitus of ephesus born ca. The theory presented is based on a computational simulation of stdp with parameters culled from the experimental literature. The present study sets out to analyze aspectuality and coercion in persian from a new perspective. Chapter 2 contrast between aspectual systems in l2 learning and its repercussions 2. Download book theory of knowledge for the ib diploma full.
All are drawn into a theory which can account for both terminative and durative aspectuality together. The progressive, the perfectparfait, and duration adverbials introduced by in or for are interpreted as aspectual operators which modify eventuality descriptions. In linguistics, telicity from the greek, meaning end or goal is the property of a verb or verb phrase that presents an action or event as being complete in some sense. Aspect is a grammatical category that expresses how an action, event, or state, denoted by a verb, extends over time. X on the compositional nature of the aspects tachment which states that for every lexical item there is just one categorial node in deep structure to which it can be attached, as well as his basic. The french past tenses are sensitive to aspect, but they do not change the aspectual class of the eventuality description themselves.
Janssen 1997 but see also zadrozny 1994, whom john nerbonne, p. Verkuyl f28 fokker airplane model usa canada bids only. The acquisition of aspect in l2 is influenced by the properties of the lexicalaspectual class, coercion at the syntacticpragmatic interface and grounding information foreground and background in discourse. This second step made aspectuality a serious topic of investigation verkuyl. The selected works presented in this followup volume explore the consequences of this theory for a number of areas.
Aktionsart is a property of mostly verbal predicates. H j verkuyl sentences may pertain to states or processes or events. Issues in semantics university of maryland, spring 2006 syllabus. Abstract this article examines the significance of the schematic domain of boundedness in adjectives.
These gaps, however, are easily filled by other literature e. In usagebased theory, the major source for the creation of tensemoodaspect expressions is grammaticalization bybee 2006. Verkuyl, 9780521564526, available at book depository with free delivery worldwide. Verkuyl s theory on time and quantity presented in his 1993 volume, a theory of aspectuality. This site is like a library, use search box in the widget to get ebook that you want. It is their aspectual properties which allow users of natural languages to. The interaction between temporal and atemporal structure. Some remarks on the action nominalization in english. Foundations of language on the compositional nature supplementary series of the aspects editors by morris halle, mit, h. Click download or read online button to get aspectuality and temporality book now.
It will argued that on a strict fregean view a verb has a constant. Two types of accounts were proposed for negated ep modification. The stativity hypothesis bennett and partee 1972, dowty 1979, verkuyl 1993, a. The central hypothesis of transformationalgenerative theory that a dis tinction should be made between the deep structure and the surface structure of a language, entails the possibility for. It must be ensured then that durative adverbs can modify both atelic and negated eps, irrespective of the telicity of the latter. Project muse the handbook of contemporary semantic theory. Grammaticalization is the diachronic process whereby existing constructions with particular lexical items gain frequency and. With regard to the transcendental aspectual distinction between perfectivity, characterized by boundedness and heterogeneity, and imperfectivity, specified by uniformity and homogeneity langacker, 2008, it is argued that the heterogeneity of verbs may be assessed according to their phasic and. Cambridge core grammar and syntax a theory of aspectuality by henk j.
Lexical aspect is invariant, while grammatical aspect can be. Finally, different perspectives constitute a dynamic force in theory formation. Natured expellee shall rig amid the cognitively subnational triennium. Verkuyl 1972 and in more recent work, relates to the vendlerclasses.
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