Theoretical and Crosslinguistic Approaches to the Semantics of Aspect
Editor
| Bar-Ilan University
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.
[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 110] 2008. viii, 453 pp.
Publishing status: Available
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
1–10
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Part I. Tense, aspect and Vendler classes
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13–42
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43–77
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79–105
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107–166
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167–187
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Part II. Issues in Slavic aspect
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191–215
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217–256
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257–290
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291–317
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Part III. Aspect in non-Indoeuropean languages
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321–347
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349–385
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387–419
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421–439
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Bulatovic, Vesna
Crellin, Robert
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Roberts, Leah & Sarah Ann Liszka
SOH, HOOI LING & HIROKI NOMOTO
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Subjects
BIC Subject: CFG – Semantics, Pragmatics, Discourse Analysis
BISAC Subject: LAN009000 – LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General