Theoretical and crosslinguistic approaches to the semantics of aspect
By: edited by Susan Rothstein.
Contributors: Rothstein, Susan Deborah.
Series: Linguistik aktuell = -- Linguistics today -- v. 110; Linguistik aktuell -- Bd. 110.
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing; John Benjamins Pub. Co.
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Amsterdam; Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 453
ISBN-13: 9789027233745
Subjects: Grammar, Comparative and general -- Aspect; Semantics; Typology (Linguistics)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Lexicalized meaning and the internal temporal structure of events / Malka Rappaport Hovav; title: Telicity, atomicity, and the Vendler classification of verbs / Susan Rothstein; title: Aspects of a typology of direction / Joost Zwarts; title: 1066: on the differences between the tense-perspective-aspect systems of English and Dutch / Fred Landman; title: Tenses for the living and the dead: lifetime inferences reconsidered / Anita Mittwoch; title: Formal and informal semantics of telicity / Elena Paducheva and Mati Pentus; title: Events and maximalization: the case of telicity and perfectivity / Hana Filip; title: Aspect and bounded quantity complements in Russian / Hans Robert Mehlig; title: Negation, intensionality, and aspect: interaction with NP semantics / Barbara H. Partee; title: Habituality and the habitual aspect / Nora Boneh and Edit Doron; title: Aspectual universals of temporal anaphora / Maria Bittner; title: The syntax and semantics of change/transition: evidence from Mandarin Chinese / Hooi Ling Soh; title: Bare nouns and telicity in Japanese / Keiko Yoshida.