A Theory of Aspectuality

Verkuyl, Henk J.

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“…Verkuyl (1972Verkuyl ( , 1993 The features turn out to be convenient in formulating an important principle guiding aspectual composition: the Plus-principle. It says that a VP (V + internal argument) and an S are terminative only in the absence of a minusfeature.…”

Section: A Double Sense Of Completionmentioning

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“…Sentence (12c) is durative due to the [-SQA]-specification of nobody, whereas (12d) is durative on account of the [-ADDTO]-feature lexically associated with the verb saber 'know'. Verkuyl (1993) provided a formal-semantic account for the features in (12) in terms of the theory of generalized quantification. Verkuyl (2017) is an attempt to simplify this account with regard to the [±ADDTO]-feature.…”

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“…In (19), the presence of the [+SQA]-NPs dos arias provides the discretizing function gc structurally along the lines of aspectual composition followed in Verkuyl (1993). The cardinality information provided for by dos 'two' is represented here by |A| = 2, where A abbreviates the internal argument NP-information.…”

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A binary approach to Spanish tense and aspect: on the tense battle about the past

González

Verkuyl

2017

Borealis

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ABSTRACT. The present paper aims at accounting for the Spanish Imperfecto, Perfecto, Pluscuamperfecto and the Indefinido by applying three binary tense oppositions: Present vs Past, Synchronous vs Posterior and Imperfect(ive) vs Perfect(ive). For the sixteen Spanish tense forms under analysis a binary approach leads to covering twelve of them. Their relation with the preterital forms outside the range of the three oppositions is accounted for by two surgical operations: (a) the notion of Imperfect(ive) is severed from the notion of ongoing progress by restricting it to underinformation about completion and by seeing continuous tense forms as involving a more complex semantics; (b) the notion of (non-)stative is strictly severed from interference of information coming from the arguments of a verb. These theoretical moves make the way free for a formal-semantic insight into the interaction of Spanish tense and aspect. It also paves the way for a principled distinction between completion and anteriority. Restricted to tense forms pertaining to the past, our analysis sheds light on the struggle for survival of tense forms outside the binary system. Keywords: tense, aspect, perfecto, pluscuamperfecto, imperfecto, indefinido, completion, aorist, anteriority, stative, nonstative, discrete, continuous, progressive, terminative, durative RESUMEN. El presente trabajo pretende describir y explicar las siguientes formas verbales del castellano: Imperfecto, Perfecto, Pluscuamperfecto e Indefinido aplicando tres oposiciones temporales binarias: Presente vs Pasado, Sincrónico vs Posterior e Imperfecto/imperfectivo vs Perfecto/perfectivo. Este acercamiento binario cubre doce de las dieciséis formas temporales del castellano analizadas. La relación entre las formas verbales que entran en el sistema binario y las formas de pretérito que no entran en el sistema se explica por dos operaciones quirúrgicas: (a) la noción de Imperfecto/imperfectivo se separa de la noción de progresivo continuo, restringiendo el valor del Imperfecto/imperfectivo a la subinformación sobre su terminación e implicando una semántica más compleja para las formas temporales progresivas; (b) la noción de (no) estatividad está estrictamente separada de la interferencia de la información aspectual procedente de los argumentos de un verbo. Estos movimientos teóricos dan vía libre a una comprensión formal-semántica de la interacción del tiempo y del aspecto en castellano. También allana el camino para una distinción argumentada entre las nociones de terminación y anterioridad. Limitado a formas verbales del pasado, nuestro análisis ilumina la batalla por la supervivencia de las formas temporales fuera del sistema binario.

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Section: A Double Sense Of Completionmentioning

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Section: A Double Sense Of Completionmentioning

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A binary approach to Spanish tense and aspect: on the tense battle about the past

González

Verkuyl

2017

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“…But what makes an eventuality part of another eventuality in the extension of P in case there is no complete P-eventuality ? This is a version of the famous IMPERFECTIVE PARADOX which has been discussed extensively in the semantic and philosophical literature (Dowty, 1979 ;Smith, 1991 ;Verkuyl, 1993).…”

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From scalar semantics to implicature: children's interpretation of aspectuals

Papafragou

2006

J. Child Lang.

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One of the tasks of language learning is the discovery of the intricate division of labour between the lexical-semantic content of an expression and the pragmatic inferences the expression can be used to convey. Here we investigate experimentally the development of the semantics–pragmatics interface, focusing on Greek-speaking five-year-olds' interpretation of aspectual expressions such as arxizo (‘start’) and degree modifiers such as miso (‘half’) and mexri ti mesi (‘halfway’). Such expressions are known to give rise to scalar inferences crosslinguistically: for instance, start, even though compatible with expressions denoting completion (e.g. finish), is typically taken to implicate non-completion. Overall, our experiments reveal that children have limited success in deriving scalar implicatures from the use of aspectual verbs but they succeed with ‘discrete’ degree modifiers such as ‘half’. Furthermore, children are better at spontaneously computing scalar implicatures than judging the pragmatic appropriateness of scalar statements. Finally, children can suspend scalar implicatures in environments where they are not supported. We discuss implications of these results for the scope and limitations of children's ability to both acquire the lexical semantics of aspectuals and to compute implicatures as part of what the speaker means.

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“…Y ello es así porque si bien las propiedades aspectuales contenidas en la entrada léxica del verbo participan en la composición del aspecto, no son por sí mismas el aspecto (vid. Verkuyl, 1972Verkuyl, , 1989Verkuyl, , 1990Verkuyl, , 1993Smith, 1990, entre otros).…”

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Proceso de adquisición de la naturaleza composicional del aspecto en el español como lengua extranjera: el reconocimiento de la colaboración de los marcadores aspectuales Cada + SN y Durante + SN en la composición del modo de acción del enunciado

Masachs¹

2010

ELUA

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RESUMENEl objetivo de este trabajo es estudiar el reconocimiento de la incidencia de los marcadores léxicos temporales y aspectuales como Durante + SN temporalizado o Cada + SN temporalizado en la composición aspectual del enunciado a lo largo del proceso de adquisición de esta categoría funcional en el español como lengua extranjera (ELE). Para alcanzar dicho objetivo, adoptamos una concepción actualizada del aspecto gramatical (vid.

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A Theory of Aspectuality

Cited by 436 publications

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A binary approach to Spanish tense and aspect: on the tense battle about the past

A binary approach to Spanish tense and aspect: on the tense battle about the past

From scalar semantics to implicature: children's interpretation of aspectuals

Proceso de adquisición de la naturaleza composicional del aspecto en el español como lengua extranjera: el reconocimiento de la colaboración de los marcadores aspectuales Cada + SN y Durante + SN en la composición del modo de acción del enunciado

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