Theoretical and crosslinguistic approaches to the semantics of aspect

Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc.
Other Authors: Rothstein, Susan Deborah.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing, c2008.
Series:Linguistik aktuell = Linguistics today, v. 110
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Online Access:http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10217813
Table of Contents:
  • Lexicalized meaning and the internal temporal structure of events / Malka Rappaport Hovav
  • Telicity, atomicity, and the Vendler classification of verbs / Susan Rothstein
  • Aspects of a typology of direction / Joost Zwarts
  • 1066: on the differences between the tense-perspective-aspect systems of English and Dutch / Fred Landman
  • Tenses for the living and the dead: lifetime inferences reconsidered / Anita Mittwoch
  • Formal and informal semantics of telicity / Elena Paducheva and Mati Pentus
  • Events and maximalization: the case of telicity and perfectivity / Hana Filip
  • Aspect and bounded quantity complements in Russian / Hans Robert Mehlig
  • Negation, intensionality, and aspect: interaction with NP semantics / Barbara H. Partee
  • Habituality and the habitual aspect / Nora Boneh and Edit Doron
  • Aspectual universals of temporal anaphora / Maria Bittner
  • The syntax and semantics of change/transition: evidence from Mandarin Chinese / Hooi Ling Soh
  • Bare nouns and telicity in Japanese / Keiko Yoshida.