Aspectual Issues: Studies on Time and Quantity - Brossura

Verkuyl, Henk J.

Brossura

ISBN 10: 157586200X ISBN 13: 9781575862002

Casa editrice: The Center for the Study of Language and Information Publications, 1999

Riassunto

This book is a collection of nine papers, eight of them written after the author's well-known A Theory of Aspectuality published in 1993. The aim of the book is (a) to explain Verkuyl's 1993 theory and to simplify its exposition; (b) to explore its consequences for a number of areas, in particular issues concerning habituality, the role of aspectualizers marking the beginning, middle or end of events, the interaction between tense and aspectuality, the role of temporal Path structure in distributive and collective quantification, the differences and correspondences in the ways in which Slavic, Germanic and Romance languages express aspectuality, and related topics. Several papers contain a critical analysis of Davidson's event semantics and indicate that neo-Davidsonians either use the wrong tools for a proper analysis of aspectuality or that they (need to) adopt some of the crucial assumptions of the author's theory, in particular the asymmetry inherent to aspectual construal and his consequent plea to take numbers rather than events as the primitives structuring our concept of time.

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Descrizione del libro

This book is a collection of nine papers, eight of them written after the author's well-known A Theory of Aspectuality published in 1993. The aim is to offer a simplified exposition of the author's theory and to explore its consequences for linguistic issues such as event semantics and temporal structure.

Contenuti

Introduction; 1. Events as individuals; 2. Indices and habituality; 3. Aspectualizers and event structure; 4. On the syntax of inner aspectuality; 5. Tense, aspect and aspectual composition; 6. Multiple quantification; 7. Distributivity and collectivity; 8. Scope ambiguity and the verb phrase; 9. (In-)definiteness and temporal measure nouns; Index; References.

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: The Center for the Study of Language and Information Publications
• Data di pubblicazione: 1999
• ISBN 10: 157586200X
• ISBN 13: 9781575862002
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Lingua: Inglese
• Numero di pagine: 279
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile