Perspectives on Aspect
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 t...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht
Springer Netherlands
2005, 2005
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2005 |
| Series: | Studies in Theoretical Psycholinguistics
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- 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