Aspectuality And Temporality
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Aspectuality And Temporality
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Author : Zlatka Guentchéva
language : en
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Release Date : 2016-03-09
Aspectuality And Temporality written by Zlatka Guentchéva and has been published by John Benjamins Publishing Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-03-09 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
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.
A Theory Of Aspectuality
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Author : Henk J. Verkuyl
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1996-05-30
A Theory Of Aspectuality written by Henk J. Verkuyl and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996-05-30 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
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.
A Theory Of Aspectuality
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Author : Hendrik Jacob Verkuyl
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1993
A Theory Of Aspectuality written by Hendrik Jacob Verkuyl and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with Generative grammar categories.
Aspectual Grammar And Past Time Reference
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Author : Laura A. Michaelis
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2002-01-04
Aspectual Grammar And Past Time Reference written by Laura A. Michaelis and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-01-04 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
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.
Aspectuality In English Temporal Perspectives And Properties
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Author : Janine Klinge
language : en
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Release Date : 2011-10-10
Aspectuality In English Temporal Perspectives And Properties written by Janine Klinge and has been published by GRIN Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-10-10 with Literary Collections categories.
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. [...]
Perspectives On Aspect
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Author : Henk J. Verkuyl
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2006-01-17
Perspectives On Aspect written by Henk J. Verkuyl and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-01-17 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
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.
Functional Grammar
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Author : A. A. Barentsen
language : de
Publisher:
Release Date : 2001
Functional Grammar written by A. A. Barentsen and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Bondarko, Alexander categories.
Aspect And Reference Time
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Author : Olga Borik
language : en
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Release Date : 2006-08-31
Aspect And Reference Time written by Olga Borik and has been published by OUP Oxford this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-08-31 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
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.
Temporality
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Author : Maria Bittner
language : en
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 2014-04-24
Temporality written by Maria Bittner and has been published by John Wiley & Sons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-04-24 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
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’
Aspectual Issues
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Author : H. J. Verkuyl
language : en
Publisher: Stanford Univ Center for the Study
Release Date : 1999-01-01
Aspectual Issues written by H. J. Verkuyl and has been published by Stanford Univ Center for the Study this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-01-01 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This collection explains Henk J. Verkuyl's theory on time and quantity presented in his 1993 volume, A Theory of Aspectuality. The selected works presented in this follow-up volume explore the consequences of this theory for a number of areas. In particular, Verkuyl addresses issues in the following areas: habituality; the interaction between tense and aspectuality; the role of temporal Path structure in distributive and collective quantification; and the differences and correspondences in the ways in which Slavic, Germanic and Romance languages express aspectuality.