On the Compositional Nature of the Aspects

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.…”

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

González

Verkuyl

2017

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“…The fact that the non-idiomatic VP can be modified by the durative phrase, but the idiomatic one cannot, is the result of a mass noun being the object of the verb. Mass nouns (and bare plurals) have the aspectual effect of turning a telic predicate into atelic (Verkuyl 1972;Dowty 1979). The mass noun contributes towards the atelicity of the predicate only in the non-idiomatic reading.…”

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Τhe primitives of the lexicon: Insights from aspect in idioms

Leivada

2017

Volume 2

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This work discusses the primitives of the mental lexicon through exploring aspectual compositionality in VP idioms. A comparison between idiomatic VPs and their non-idiomatic counterparts is employed to show whether the determination of aspect in idioms is compositional in both the idiomatic and the non-idiomatic VPs. Aspectual mismatches across the two domains of interpretation are presented and a point in favor of aspectual compositionality in idioms is made. Bringing together insights from theoretical linguistics and neurolinguistic research, it is proposed that the existence of aspectual accomplishments in a particular type of idioms should lead to a re-evaluation of the frequently entertained idea of storing idioms (XPs) in the mental lexicon as elementary lexical units.

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“…I will adopt again here her approach to the issue of boundedness. Drawing on work such as that of Krifka (1992), Verkuyl (1972), and Verkuyl (1993) regarding the contribution of the internal argument to the aspectual readings on the level of VP, she employs the notion of measuring out events in dealing with the linking problem. More specifically, the interaction between lexical semantics and syntax is determined by the aspectual properties of verbs, which are specified in the lexicon in terms of the aspectual roles assigned to arguments.…”

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The lexical and superlexical verbal prefix iz- and its role in the stacking of prefixes

Miličević¹

2005

NLY

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In this paper I show that there are two distinct iz-prefixes in Serbian: a lexical, and a superlexical one. I show that there are criteria for the distinction between the two types of verbal prefixes (restricting my claims to the superlexical prefixes that stack after the secondary imperfectivization). I focus on the lexical iz-occurring with transitive verbs and show that it can be analyzed along the same lines as the English resultative particles up and out. I also consider the role of the lexical iz-as a perfectivizer and point to the distinction between the notion of telicity and overtly marked boundedness on the lexical level. It also follows from the discussion below that a more elaborate event structure would be necessary for the analysis of superlexical iz-.

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On the Compositional Nature of the Aspects

Cited by 652 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

Τhe primitives of the lexicon: Insights from aspect in idioms

The lexical and superlexical verbal prefix iz- and its role in the stacking of prefixes

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