Cross-Linguistic Perspectives on the Semantics of Grammatical Aspect

Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-90-04-39933-4
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 30, 282 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 231 mm, Gewicht: 386 g

Reihe: Cahiers Chronos

The volume proposes original semantic analyses on items marking grammatical aspect. The contributions deal with structurally divergent languages, setting to the fore some less studied forms coding aspect, revisiting or challenging certain conventionalized views on aspectual categories and shedding light on interactions between aspect and modality, another multifaceted semantic category. In doing so, the volume is intended to emphasize the diversity of aspectual systems and the fuzzy semantics of grammatical aspect and help the reader to make their own mind on a topic traditionally viewed as a subcategory of verbal aspect together with lexical aspect.

Contributors are Denis Apothéloz, Trang Phan and Nigel Duffield, Galia Hatav, Jens Fleischhauer and Ekaterina Gabrovska, Stephen M. Dickey, Adeline Patard, Laura Baranzini, Jaroslava Obrtelova.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Patard, Adeline

Peltola, Rea

Roussel, Emmanuelle

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Grammatik, Syntax, Morphologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Semantik & Pragmatik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures and Tables

1 Introduction: Cross-Linguistic Perspectives on the Semantics of Grammatical Aspect
Adeline Patard, Rea Peltola and Emmanuelle Roussel

Part 1 News on Perfects

2 La surcomposition verbale et ses emplois en français
Denis Apothéloz

3 The Vietnamese Perfect: A Compositional Analysis
Tang Phan and Nigel Duffield

Part 2 Issues on Perfectivity

4 Perfectivity and Reference-Time Building
Galia Hatav

5 Perfectivity and Atelicity: The Role of Perfective Aspect in Aspectual Composition
Jens Fleischhauer and Ekaterina Gabrovska

Part 3 Aspect Meets Modality and (Inter)subjectivity

6 Subjectivity, Intersubjectivity, and the Aspect of Imperatives in Slavic Languages
Stephen M. Dickey

7 To the Roots of Fake Tense and Counterfactuality
Adeline Patard

8 Le « récit de récit » à l’ imparfait en italien: la piste évidentielle
Laura Baranzini

Part 4 Grammatical Aspect Challenged

9 Discourse-Pragmatic Functions of Tense-Aspect Verb Forms in Wakhi
Jaroslava Obrtelova

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Adeline Patard, Ph.D. (2007), University of Paul-Valéry – Montpellier III, is Senior Lecturer in Linguistics at the University of Caen Normandy. Her research focuses on the diachrony of French (Grande Grammaire Historique du Français 2019), linguistic change (JFLS, 2015) and the semantics-pragmatics of tense, aspect and modality (Journal of Pragmatics, 2014).

Rea Peltola, Ph.D. (2011), University of Helsinki, is Senior Lecturer in Linguistics at the University of Caen Normandy. Her research focuses on interfaces between modality and other semantic categories, including animacy (Open Linguistics, 2018) and perception (Nordic Journal of Linguistics, 2018).

Emmanuelle Roussel, Ph.D. (1995), Sorbonne University, is Professor of English Linguistics at the University of Caen Normandy. She has published papers on aspect, tense, pragmatics (Autour des formes implicites, 2017) and biolinguistics (Perception(s) de la linéarité: quelles interprétations ?, 2015; Perception visuelle et triade temporelle (Digonnet (eds), 2018, 125-154).