The Parameter of Aspect

Smith, Carlota S.

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“…14 Focusing on past tense forms, we will ignore the POST-operator in (3b) referring to Broekhuis and Verkuyl (2014) for the interpretation of POST as a modal operator. 15 The present analysis reduces the need for a distinction between subjective aspect and objective aspect along the lines of Smith (1991) …”

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

González

Verkuyl

2017

Borealis

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“…An example of this from our data is given in example (28), where bold face marks a rebutting premise: Turning to dynamic sense, we find it more strongly associated with supporting function. We typically find this sense realized with können, bringing forth abilities or capabilities of entities, presented as options and chances, in support of a premise (29 Finally, even though deontic is the most frequent modal sense within all of the microtexts, it is especially frequent within undercuts: 76% of the undercuts that contain modal verbs have the modal sense deontic (obligation).…”

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“…In this manner, those texts are segmented into types of text passages such as Methods or Results. Notions related to SE type have been widely studied in theoretical linguistics [1,4,6,29,33,34] and have seen growing interest in computational linguistics [5,11,12,19,25,28,35].…”

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Semantic clause types and modality as features for argument analysis1

Becker

Palmer

Frank

2017

AAC

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Abstract. This work investigates the role of semantic clause types and modality in argumentative texts. We annotate argumentative microtexts with situation entity (SE) classes and additionally label the segments that contain modal verbs with their modal senses. We analyse the correlation both of SE classes and of modal verbs and senses with components of argument structures (such as premises and conclusions) and their functions (such as support and rebuttal). We find interesting tendencies in the correlations between both argument components and argumentative functions with SE types.We also see interesting differences in the distributions of modal verbs and senses within different argumentative components and functions, as well as evidence that modal senses can be helpful to distinguish conclusions and premises. We conclude that both semantic clause types and modal senses can be deployed for automatic recognition and fine-grained classification of argumentative text passages.

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“…Oscar will help Joe with the project. Smith (1991) reports that English main verbs are classified as states and events. The events are dynamic which involve change, activity and role of agent whereas the states are static which denote the occurrence of an event with no end point.…”

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A Study on Science Students’ Understanding of Three Lemmas: State Verb, Action Verb and Noun in the State Run Colleges in Pakistan

Imran¹,

Asgher²,

Ghani³

2016

IJEL

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English main verbs are classified as stative and dynamic. At first, this paper deals with the analysis of stative verbs, highlights their true nature and function and illustrates the concept of spontaneity within the state verbs. Secondly, it expounds how the term 'lemma' helps in sorting out the same words representing different parts of speech. Finally, it reports on the level of the science students' competency in the use of state verbs, action verbs and nouns. For this purpose, 300 science students of intermediate level were selected as participants for the present study. A language proficiency test was conducted to collect data. The results revealed that majority of the students had scanty understanding of nouns and state verbs but their recognition of action verbs had been of average level. Some suggestions for improved pedagogy in teaching English grammar have been suggested on the basis of these findings.

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The Parameter of Aspect

Cited by 869 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

Semantic clause types and modality as features for argument analysis1

A Study on Science Students’ Understanding of Three Lemmas: State Verb, Action Verb and Noun in the State Run Colleges in Pakistan

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