Aspectual Inquiries

The study of the linguistic reflexes of aspect has been an active field of research in various sub-disciplines of linguistics, such as syntax, semantics (including discourse theory) and acquisition studies. However, communication and dissemination of results across these various subfields has often...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Kempchinsky, Paula (Editor), Slabakova, Roumyana (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2005.
Series:Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, 62
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Online Access:Full Text via HEAL-Link
Table of Contents:
  • Issues and Interfaces in the Study of Aspect
  • Aspect and the Internal Structure of the Clause
  • Topic or Aspect
  • Some Notes on the Syntax of Quantity
  • Articulated vPS and the Computation of Aspectual Classes
  • Flavors of v
  • Semi-Copulas
  • PP, FP and the Telic/Atelic Distinction in Norwegian Motion Constructions
  • Aspect, Tense and Discourse
  • The Spatio-Temporal Path and Aspectual Composition
  • Aspect and Temporal Modification
  • Aspectual Entities and Tense in Discourse
  • Stage Structure and Stage Salience for Event Semantics
  • Aspectual Viewpoints, Speech Act Functions and Discourse Structure
  • Aspect and Acquisition
  • Child Non-Finite Clauses and the Mood-Aspect Connection
  • Imperfect Imperfectives
  • L2 Acquisition of Aspectual Distinctions in Polish
  • Aspect Lost, Aspect Regained
  • Tracking the Elusive Imperfect in Adult L2 Acquisition.