Perspectives on Aspect

by Verkuyl, Henk; De Swart, Henriette; Van Hout, Angeliek

• ISBN13: 9781402032301
• ISBN10: 1402032307
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-11-30
• Publisher: Kluwer Academic Pub

Summary

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, Italian, French, Bulgarian, Czech, Mandarin Chinese, West-Greenlandic, Wakashan languages, and Nakh-Daghestanian languages.Audience: Scholars and students of aspectuality in semantics and at the syntax-semantics interface.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Affiliations	ix
Introducing perspectives on aspect	1	(18)
Angeliek Van Hout
Henriette De Swart
Henk J. Verkuyl
Aspectual composition: Surveying the ingredients	19	(22)
Henk J. Verkuyl
Quantized direct objects don't delimit after all	41	(20)
Rebecca Smollett
Quantification and aspect	61	(20)
Anne Marie Di Sciullo
Roumyana Slabakova
Prepositions and results in Italian and English: An analysis from event decomposition	81	(26)
Raffaella Folli
Gillian Ramchand
Atelicity, pluractionality, and adverbial quantification	107	(18)
Veerle Van Geenhoven
On accumulating and having it all. Perfectivity, prefixes and bare arguments	125	(24)
Hana Filip
Adverbs of completion in an event semantics	149	(18)
Christopher Pinon
Eventualities, grammar, and language diversity	167	(14)
Emmon Bach
From habituals to futures: discerning the path of diachronic development	181	(18)
Sergei Tatevosov
Perfective aspect and accomplishment situations in Mandarin Chinese	199	(18)
Hooi Ling Soh
Jenny Yi-Chun Kuo
The past perfective and present perfect in African-American English	217	(16)
J. Michael Terry
Tense and aspectual be in child African American English	233	(18)
Janice E. Jackson
Lisa Green
Unmarked already: Aspectual expressions in two varieties of English	251
Vivienne Fong