Progressives, States and Backgrounding

Glasbey, Sheila

doi:10.1007/978-94-011-3969-4_5

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“…[6] Lack of space precludes a discussion of the fo reground/background distinction in connection with the imparfait (see Anscombre 1992, Glasbey 1998, Irandoust 1998 fo r some approaches pertaining to this question).…”

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Imperfectivity and Progressivity: The French Imparfait

Jayez¹

2015

SALT

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Section: Endnotesmentioning

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Imperfectivity and Progressivity: The French Imparfait

Jayez¹

2015

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“…Another way of thinking of this is that both statives and perfects provide background information (Glasbey 1998), while event sentences are foregrounded. A related issue concerns the "out of the blue" interpretation.…”

Section: Temporal Interpretation Of Discoursementioning

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On the stativity of the English Perfect

Katz¹

2003

Perfect Explorations

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“…Fortunately, not every linguist agrees that progressive sentences are stative sentences. Counterarguments have been produced by Smith (1991), Bertinetto (1994), and Glasbey (1998). In particular, Bertinetto (1994) has a very detailed review of the pros and cons and rejects treating progressive sentences as statives.…”

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Aspectual selection and negation in Mandarin Chinese

Lin¹

2003

Linguistics

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This paper argues that the distributions of bu 'not' and mei 'not' in Mandarin Chinese can be accounted for in terms of their aspectual selections. I propose that while mei aspectually selects an event as its complement, bu aspectually selects as its complement a stative situation that requires no input of energy in order to obtain that situation. I show that this approach to the distributions of bu and mei better accounts for the data than previous analyses such

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Progressives, States and Backgrounding

Cited by 14 publications

References 7 publications

Imperfectivity and Progressivity: The French Imparfait

Imperfectivity and Progressivity: The French Imparfait

On the stativity of the English Perfect

Aspectual selection and negation in Mandarin Chinese

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