Perfective and imperfective aspect and the theory of events and states

Herweg, Michael

doi:10.1515/ling.1991.29.6.969

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“…The interpretation of the sentence depends on whether the predicate merges with a particular functional viewpoint head. In this sense, this proposal differs from others such as Kamp & Rohrer's 1983, Hinrichs' 1986and Herweg's 1991, where aspectual forms were assumed to describe specific types of predicates and to follow from the situation aspect properties of predicates (e.g. French Imparfait for states; Passé Simple for events).…”

Section: Aspect Theoretical Toolkitmentioning

confidence: 79%

“…According to the proposal defended in this paper, the situation properties gained in the syntax remain unaltered, viewpoint aspect heads having no power whatsoever to change them. As a consequence, coercion mechanisms as reinterpretation mechanisms that come into play when there is a conflict between aspectual properties of eventualities and aspectual operators (Herweg 1991, de Swart 1998 are claimed not to exist as such. We could say that in the approach explored here the syntactic structure is a pure coercive mechanism; importantly, however, it does not work as an operation that intervenes to "solve conflicts", but only to create meaning.…”

Section: Aspect Theoretical Toolkitmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…" Although viewpoint aspect has been argued to be independent from the other aspectual realm known as situation aspect (also called lexical or inner aspect) by many authors (Smith 1991, Bertinetto 2000, Borik & Reinhart 2004, Bohnemeyer & Swift 2004, others have defended that viewpoint aspect properties follow from the semantic type of the verb (Herweg 1991) and can affect and modify situation aspect properties, working as a coercive mechanism (Dowty 1979, Kamp & Rohrer 1983Bertinetto 1994, de Swart 1998. In this work I analyze viewpoint aspect and address its relation with situation aspect properties.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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The construction of viewpoint aspect: the imperfective revisited

Arche

2013

Nat Lang Linguist Theory

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Abstract. This paper argues for a constructionist approach for Aspect by exploring the idea that viewpoint aspect does not exert any altering force on the situation aspect properties of predicates. The proposal is developed by analyzing the point of view where conflicts between situation and viewpoint aspect have been argued to appear in previous literature, namely, the imperfective. The paper focuses on the syntax and semantics of the imperfective, which has been attributed a coercer role as a de-telicizer and de-stativizer in the progressive reading, and as a de-eventizizer in the so-called ability (or attitudinal) and habitual readings. This paper proposes that this is not necessary and provides a unified semantics for the imperfective preserving the properties of eventualities throughout the derivation. The article defends that the semantics of viewpoint aspect is encoded in functional heads containing interval-ordering predicates and quantifiers. This richer structure allows us to analyze aspectual forms with in principle contradictory content such as perfective and progressive, which sheds light onto other issues such as the understanding of non-culminating accomplishments. The proposed syntax is argued to have a corresponding explicit morphology in languages such as Spanish and a non-differentiating one in languages such as English, while the syntax-semantics underlying both of these languages is argued to be the same.

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Section: Aspect Theoretical Toolkitmentioning

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Section: Aspect Theoretical Toolkitmentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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The construction of viewpoint aspect: the imperfective revisited

Arche

2013

Nat Lang Linguist Theory

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“…Tenses are treated referentially and event verbs are treated as Davidsonian predicates (Davidson 1967;Parsons 1990). Adopting the insights of Galton (1984), Löbner (1988) and Herweg (1991), I will distinguish event predicates from state predicates as follows. State predicates are properties of times and event predicates are properties of events.…”

Section: The Basic Tense/aspect Frameworkmentioning

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On the stativity of the English Perfect

Katz¹

2003

Perfect Explorations

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“…In (4a), the state radical She like-him combines with a frame adverbial (in a minute), which is logically compatible only with those predications which do not entail downward to subintervals, i.e., telic events (Herweg 1991). In (4b), the state radical He believe-every word combines with Progressive morphology.…”

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Entity and event coercion in a symbolic theory of syntax

Michaelis¹

2005

Constructional Approaches to Language

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Perfective and imperfective aspect and the theory of events and states

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The construction of viewpoint aspect: the imperfective revisited

The construction of viewpoint aspect: the imperfective revisited

On the stativity of the English Perfect

Entity and event coercion in a symbolic theory of syntax

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