Aspectuality : An Onomasiological Model Applied to the Romance Languages / Sarah Dessì Schmid.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dessì Schmid, Sarah, Author.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (268)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2019]

Language Note:

English.

Biography/History:

Sarah Dessì Schmid, Universität Tübingen.

Summary:

This synchronic study presents a new onomasiological, frame-theoretical model for the description, classification and theoretical analysis of the cross-linguistic content category aspectuality. It deals specifically with those pieces of information, which, in their interplay, constitute the aspectual value of states of affairs. The focus is on Romance Languages, although the model can be applied just as well to other languages, in that it is underpinned by a principle grounded in a fundamental cognitive ability: the delimitation principle. Unlike traditional approaches, which generally have a semasiological orientation and strictly adhere to a semantic differentiation between grammatical aspect and lexical aspect (Aktionsart), this study makes no such differentiation and understands these as merely different formal realisations of one and the same content category: aspectuality.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Preface to English Edition

Preface

Contents

Introduction

1. The Temporal Structuring of States of Affairs - Tense, Aspect and Aktionsart

2. The Aspectual Domain

3. Aspectuality as a Complex, Semantic, Universal Category. Theoretical and Methodological Foundations

4. The Model of Aspectuality as an Internal Temporal Structuring of States of Affairs

5. Combinations of the Dimensions of Aspectuality in the Situation Frame: the First Level of the Model Applied

6. The Second Level of the Aspectuality Model Applied

7. Closing Remarks

Abbreviations

References

Author Index

Notes:

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ISBN:

9783110562088

3110562081

9783110564105

3110564106

OCLC:

1135607187