Theoretical and Crosslinguistic Approaches to the Semantics of Aspect

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.

ISBN 9027233748   DEWEY edition DC22 ISBN13 9789027233745 (What's this?)   Pages 445 Publisher John Benjamins Publishing Co   Volumes 001 Imprint John Benjamins Publishing Co   Published in Amsterdam Format Hardback   Series ISSN 0166-082 Publication date 01 Mar 2008   Series title Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today Library of Congress P281   Academic level Secondary education, Undergraduate, Postgraduate, Professional / Scholarly DEWEY 415.63

		Introduction by Susan Rothstein		1
Pt. I		Tense, aspect and Vendler classes
1		Lexicalized meaning and the internal temporal structure of events by Malka Rappaport Hovav		13
2		Telicity, atomicity and the Vendler classification of verbs by Susan Rothstein		43
3		Aspects of a typology of direction by Joost Zwarts		79
4		1066: On the differences between the tense-perspective-aspect systems of English and Dutch by Fred Landman		107
5		Tenses for the living and the dead: Lifetime inferences reconsidered by Anita Mittwoch		167
Pt. II		Issues in Slavic aspect
6		Formal and informal semantics of telicity by Elena Paducheva and Mati Pentus		191
7		Events and maximalization: The case of telicity and perfectivity by Hana Filip		217
8		Aspect and bounded quantity complements in Russian by Hans Robert Mehlig		257
9		Negation, intensionality, and aspect: Interaction with NP semantics by Barbara H. Partee		291
Pt. III		Aspect in non-Indoeuropean languages
10		Habituality and the habitual aspect by Nora Boneh and Edit Doran		321
11		Aspectual universals of temporal anaphora by Maria Bittner		349
12		The syntax and semantics of change/transition: Evidence from Mandarin Chinese by Hooi Ling Soh		387
13		Bare nouns and telicity in Japanese by Keiko Yoshida		421
		Index		441

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