Layers of Aspect (Studies in Constraint-Based Lexicalism) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1575865963 ISBN 13: 9781575865966

Publisher: Center for the Study of Language and Information, 2010

Synopsis

The eight articles in this volume reexamine the syntactic and semantic analyses of aspect that have been proposed mainly on the basis of aspectual expressions in English. The authors contrast expressions sharing an analogous morpho-syntactic makeup and some core distributional and semantic properties, drawing on a wide range of new empirical data from languages as diverse as Syrian Arabic, Urdu, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Indonesian, and German. The papers address four aspect-related problems in particular: the grammatical and semantic constraints on the different readings of the present perfect, the semantic and syntactic analysis of auxiliaries, the impact of adverbial expressions on the aspectual properties of the sentence, and morphology-semantics mapping.

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About the Author

Patricia Cabredo Hofherr isaresearcher at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique in Paris. Brenda Laca is professor of linguistics at the Universite Paris VIII."

Edition details

• Publisher: Center for the Study of Language and Information
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1575865963
• ISBN 13: 9781575865966
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 250
• Editor: P Cabredo Hofherr, Brenda Laca