Verb Classes And Aspect
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Verb Classes And Aspect
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Author : Elisa Barrajón López
language : en
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Release Date : 2015-11-15
Verb Classes And Aspect written by Elisa Barrajón López 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 2015-11-15 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This volume offers a variety of perspectives on two of the main topics situated at the crossroads between lexical semantics and syntax, namely: (a) aspect and its correspondence with syntactic structure; and (b) the delimitation of syntactic structures from verb classes. Almost from Aristotle’s Metaphysics, it has been assumed that verbs invoke a mental image about the way in which eventualities are distributed over time. When it comes to determining time schemata, the lexical class to which the verb belongs represents a first step. Speaking about verb classes does not exclusively mean a semantic similarity; rather, verb classes exhibit a bundle of common features and thus show a set of recursive behavior patterns. Beyond the meaning of the verb, both semantic and syntactic factors, together with pragmatic ones, play a decisive role when establishing the aspectual classification of an eventuality. The contributions collected in this book approach the aforementioned lines, either analyzing the relationships between aspect and syntactic structure or traversing the path from a verb class to its syntactic manifestation. Some of them stress diachronic filiations, while others include processes of word formation in the debate; some of them focus on certain classes, such as movement verbs or psychological verbs, while others examine specific constructions. A number of chapters also discuss relevant theoretical issues concerning the analysis of aspect. In sum, the kaleidoscopic view provided by this book allows the reader to delve deeper into one of the most controversial – as well as exciting – topics within current linguistics.
Verbs
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Author : William Croft
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2012-03-15
Verbs written by William Croft and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-03-15 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Examining the syntax and semantics of verbs from a crosslinguistic perspective, this book encompasses the full range of English verb classes, has a strong typological dimension and presents a model of event structure that breaks new ground in predicting and explaining linguistic facts.
Scalar Verb Classes Scalarity Thematic Roles And Arguments In The Estonian Aspectual Lexicon
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Author : Anne Tamm
language : en
Publisher: Firenze University Press
Release Date : 2011
Scalar Verb Classes Scalarity Thematic Roles And Arguments In The Estonian Aspectual Lexicon written by Anne Tamm and has been published by Firenze University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This monograph discusses scalar verb classes. It tests theories of linguistic form and meaning, arguments and thematic roles, using Estonian data. The analyses help to understand the aspectual structure of Estonian. In Estonian, transitive verbs fall into aspectual classes based on the type of case-marking of objects and adjuncts. The book relates the morphosyntactic frames of verbs to properties typically associated with adjectives and nouns: scalarity and boundedness. Verbs are divided according to how their aspect is composed. Some verbs lexicalize a scale, which can be bounded either lexically or compositionally. Aspectual composition involves the unification of features. Compositionally derived structures differ according to which of the aspectually relevant dimensions are bounded.
Aspect Eventuality Types And Nominal Reference
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Author : Hana Filip
language : en
Publisher: Psychology Press
Release Date : 1999
Aspect Eventuality Types And Nominal Reference written by Hana Filip and has been published by Psychology Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Verb Classification And The Russian Verbal Aspect
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Author : Jakob Hoepelman
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1981
Verb Classification And The Russian Verbal Aspect written by Jakob Hoepelman and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1981 with Russian language categories.
Aspect In Grammatical Variation
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Author : James A. Walker
language : en
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Release Date : 2010-11-17
Aspect In Grammatical Variation written by James A. Walker and has been published by John Benjamins Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-11-17 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
The articles in this edited volume represent a range of approaches to studying the role of verbal aspect in grammatical variation. Issues addressed include: defining the variable context; operationalizing aspectual distinctions as factors conditioning linguistic variation; and the appropriate number of aspectual distinctions and levels. Apart from bringing to light various methodological and analytical issues, this volume gathers together a unique collection of original research, based on spoken- and written-language corpora, of an array of languages and linguistic varieties: African American Vernacular English, Caribbean English and English-based creole, Indian English, Newfoundland English, Canadian French, Brazilian Portuguese, Ecuadorian Spanish, Mexican Spanish, and Peninsular Spanish. This volume should not only benefit research on grammatical variation but also be of interest more generally to the study of verbal aspect.
Interaction Of Verb Class And Aspect In Oneida
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Author : Mary Elizabeth O'Neail
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1983
Interaction Of Verb Class And Aspect In Oneida written by Mary Elizabeth O'Neail and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1983 with Oneida language categories.
Inner Aspect
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Author : Lisa deMena Travis
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2010-09-02
Inner Aspect written by Lisa deMena Travis 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 2010-09-02 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Finishing this book was one of the most difficult things I have ever done. It took far too long from original idea to page proofs and suffered from being relegated to small corners of my life. It was very rarely on the front burner. Since I started working on this topic in 1991, there has been a lot of interesting work done on the areas of the articulation of VP, phrase structure mirroring event structure, the use of functional categories to represent Aktionsart, and many other areas that the research presented here touches on. The hardest thing about doing a project of this size is to accept that not everyone’s ideas can be addressed and not all new research can be incorporated. The only way that I have found it possible to let this book go to press is to reread the Preface to Events in the Semantics of English by Terence Parsons where he writes, ‘‘The goal of this book is neither completeness nor complete accuracy; it is to get some interesting proposals into the public arena for others to criticize, develop, and build on. ’’ My aim in this book is to make connections between various accounts of various constructions in various languages at the risk of treating each of these too lightly. I am grateful to too many people to thank them individually.
English Aspectual Verbs
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Author : Frederick J. Newmeyer
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2017-12-04
English Aspectual Verbs written by Frederick J. Newmeyer and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-12-04 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Events Arguments And Aspects
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Author : Klaus Robering
language : en
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Release Date : 2014-03-15
Events Arguments And Aspects written by Klaus Robering 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 2014-03-15 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
The verb has often been considered the 'center' of the sentence and has hence always attracted the special attention of the linguist. The present volume collects novel approaches to two classical topics within verbal semantics, namely argument structure and the treatment of time and aspect. The linguistic material covered comes from a broad spectrum of languages including English, German, Danish, Ukrainian, and Australian aboriginal languages; and methods from both cognitive and formal semantics are applied in the analyses presented here. Some of the authors use a variety of event semantics in order to analyze argument structure and aspect whereas others employ ideas coming from object-oriented programming in order to achieve new insights into the way how verbs select their arguments and how events are classified into different types. Both kinds of methods are also used to give accounts of dynamical aspects of semantic interpretation such as coercion and type shifting.