Perspectives on Aspect

Name: Perspectives on Aspect
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ISBN: 9781402032318

ISBN-10: 1402032315

ISBN-13: 9781402032318

Edition: 2005

Authors: Henk J. Verkuyl, Henriette De Swart, Angeliek Van Hout

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The aim of this book is two-fold: to offer a retrospective view on the past thirty years of research on aspectuality and temporality as well as to develop new perspectives on the future development of the field. Articles contain overviews of the development of the field and/or present the state of the art of current research, suggesting new and upcoming lines of research. An important theme throughout the book is typological variation, and the relevance of empirical data for theory formation. Together the articles in the book take a wide crosslinguistic scope including aspectual analyses of English, and two varieties of English: African American English and Colloquial Singapore English,…

Book details

List price: $109.99
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Publication date: 11/17/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 268
Size: 6.10" wide x 9.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.958
Language: English



Preface Affiliations


Introducing perspectives on aspect



Aspectual composition: Surveying the ingredients



Quantized direct objects don't delimit after all



Quantification and aspect



Prepositions and results in Italian and English: An analysis from event decomposition



Atelicity, pluractionality, and adverbial quantification



On accumulating and having it all



Perfectivity, prefixes and bare arguments


Adverbs of completion in an event semantics



Eventualities, grammar, and language diversity



From habituals to futures: discerning the path of diachronic development



Perfective aspect and accomplishment situations in Mandarin Chinese



The past perfective and present perfect in African-American English



Tense and aspectual be in child African American English



Unmarked already: Aspectual expressions in two varieties of English