Theoretical and crosslinguistic approaches to the semantics of aspect / edited by Susan Rothstein.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rothstein, Susan, 1958-2019.

Series:

Linguistik aktuell ; Bd. 110.

Linguistik aktuell = Linguistics today, 0166-0829 ; v. 110

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Grammar, Comparative and general--Aspect.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Semantics.

Typology (Linguistics).

Physical Description:

viii, 453 p. : ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing, c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

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.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612152245

9781282152243

1282152246

9789027291585

9027291586

OCLC:

648354257