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Perspectives on Aspect



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 -- Adverbs of Completion in an Event Semantics -- Eventualities, Grammar, and Language Diversity -- From Habituals to Futures -- 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.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.


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Penerbit Springer : Dordrecht.,
Deskripsi Fisik
X, 268 p.online resource.
Bahasa
English
ISBN/ISSN
9781402032325
Klasifikasi
401.9
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Tipe Media
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Tipe Pembawa
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Edisi
1st ed.
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https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-3232-3

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