Perspectives on Aspect (Studies in Theoretical Psycholinguistics)
Contributors: Henk Verkuyl (Editor); Henriette De Swart (Editor); Angeliek Van Hout (Editor)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Springer
Published: December 7, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 267
ISBN-13: 9781402032301
Subjects: Psycholinguistics; Linguistics; Language; Language Arts & Disciplines; Language Arts / Linguistics / Literacy; Semantics; Language Arts & Disciplines / Semantics; General
Description: The aim of this book is two-fold: to offer a retrospective view on the past thirty years of research on aspectuality and temporality as well as to develop new perspectives on the future development of the field. Articles contain overviews of the development of the field and/or present the state of the art of current research, suggesting new and upcoming lines of research. An important theme throughout the book is typological variation, and the relevance of empirical data for theory formation. Together the articles in the book take a wide crosslinguistic scope including aspectual analyses of: English, and two varieties of English: African American English and Colloquial Singapore English, Italian, French, Bulgarian, Czech, Mandarin Chinese, West-Greenlandic, Wakashan languages, and Nakh-Daghestanian languages. Audience: Scholars and students of aspectuality in semantics and at the syntax-semantics interface.