A Theory of Aspectuality
Subtitle: The Interaction between Temporal and Atemporal Structure (Cambridge Studies in Linguistics)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: June 28, 1996
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 411
ISBN-13: 9780521564526
Subjects: Grammar, syntax, linguistic structure; Grammar; Language Arts & Disciplines; Language Arts / Linguistics / Literacy; Language; Linguistics; Semantics; Grammar, comparative and general; Language Arts & Disciplines / General; Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics; Language Arts & Disciplines-Semantics
First sentence: To evade the notorious terminological problems connected with the definition of aspect, I shall simply say at this point that central to the present theory is the conviction that, in English, sentences like (1)-(4) differ in a number of important respects and that an aspectual theory is called for to describe and explain these differences.