Aspect in English : A "Common-Sense" View of the Interplay between Verbal and Nominal Referents /
Based on an earlier edition published in 1992 in Bulgarian, this book offers a specific approach to one of the most controversial problems in linguistics. According to it, aspect is the result of a subtle and complex interplay between the referents of verbs and nouns in the sentence. Special attenti...
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| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht :
Springer Netherlands,
2000.
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| Series: | Studies in linguistics and philosophy ;
75. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1. On the essence of aspect
- 2. Vendler's classification of situations, and the problem of its interpretation
- 3. Verkuyl's theory of compositional aspect
- 4. The article and the related markers of quantity in the expression of aspect in English
- 5. Extension in time of subjects and objects from a `common-sense' point of view
- 6. The mechanism for mapping the temporal values of subjects and objects
- 7. The interdependence between markers of boundedness in verbs and in nouns
- 8. The Progressive in English
- 9. Lexical meanings of verbs, and aspect in English
- 10. Meanings of nouns and noun phrases, and aspect in English
- 11. The impact of adverbials in the sentence and aspect in English
- 12. On negativity and the explication of perfectivity
- 13. On aspectual classes in English
- 14. On `knowledge of the world' in the explication of aspect in English
- Conclusion
- Appendix. References
- Index of terms
- Index of authors.