Verbal Aspect in French

Garey, Howard B.

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“…As stated above, the perfect forms historically supplanted the simple past forms in Russian, while the development that has taken place in Russian can be seen as a gradual reduction of presentness of the relevant forms, which finally became simple past without the meaning of <perfect>. See (14) (14) Moreover, in Lithuanian, the present perfect cannot be naturally used in order to express "(hot) news" (Dahl & Hedin 2000). See (15) <Simple action> is a basic meaning of the simple tense forms both in Russian and Lithuanian.…”

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“…According to the traditional definition, a "telic verb" is a verb conveying in its inherent lexical meaning the notion of boundaries and revealing a situation as moving towards those boundaries, while an "atelic verb" is a verb that does not convey such a notion and reveals a situation as not having any boundaries (see Maslov 1948;Garey 1957). However, in this paper the terms "telic/atelic", adopted from Lehmann (1994), are used in a wider sense: a telic verb (phrase) or predicate denotes a situation that is bounded at the start (ingressive), at the end (terminative), or both at the start and at the end (deliminative or punctual), while an atelic verb (phrase) or predicate denotes a situation that is open at both sides (durative or atemporal) (see also Krifka 1998).…”

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The perfect in Lithuanian: an empirical study

Sakurai¹

2016

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This paper presents observations regarding the meanings and functions of the analytic perfect forms (in the active voice), traditionally called "compound tenses" (Lith. sudurtiniai laikai or sudėtiniai laikai), consisting of the verb būti 'be' and adjectival past participles in Lithuanian. The status of Lithuanian analytic forms is quite a controversial theme in Lithuanian linguistics, and its relation to finite verb forms has been widely discussed. However, the discussions about the perfect in Lithuanian from the semantical and typological perspective are still insufficient. Therefore, the main purpose of the research is to observe the functional-semantic content of the Lithuanian analytic perfect forms from the typological viewpoint by analyzing how this content correlates with aspectual properties of verbs, and to analyze the divisions in the usage domain of the simple tense forms and the analytic perfect forms. By referring to the contrastive analysis with Russian, I will try to provide a more detailed explanation of the meanings and functions of the Lithuanian analytic perfect forms. Moreover, I will offer an analysis of the divisions in the usage domain of the simple tense forms and the analytic perfect forms in Lithuanian, based on the results of a survey conducted in Lithuania.

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The perfect in Lithuanian: an empirical study

Sakurai¹

2016

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“…L'interruption des événements culminants empêche leur réalisation, comme le montre le « paradoxe imperfectif » existant pour les SV téliques (cf. Garey 1957, Kenny 1963, Dowty 1979. Adapté au domaine nominal, ce test conduit aux mêmes conclusions.…”

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Autonomie ou dépendance sémantique des noms d'événements en français

Huyghe¹

2014

Travaux De Linguistique

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The semantic autonomy or dependency of nouns denoting events in French AbstractTwo categories of nouns denoting events [ENs], i.e. of nouns which can be the subject of avoir lieu ('take place'), can be distinguished. Autonomous ENs (e.g. concert 'concert', avalanche 'avalanche') provide a sufficient description of events, whereas dependent ENs (e.g. augmentation 'increase', démantèlement 'dismantling'), need a complement to denote events. The distinction between these two categories is not equivalent to the one proposed by Grimshaw (1990), between « simple event nominals » and « complex event nominals ». It is shown that the distribution between autonomous and dependent ENs does not rely on pure syntactic or morphological properties, and that the semantic structure, i.e. the relevant semantic features, is not the same for all ENs. Furthermore, the autonomy or dependency of ENs may determine the ontological type of events denoted by ENs.

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“…For example, the test which we will use for boundedness vs. nonboundedness hinges on the (in)compatibility with ‗in/for X time' durational adverbials, and ever since Garey (1957), this test is also a classic one for telicity vs. atelicity. 6 It is essential, however, to recognize the distinction between (non)boundedness and (a)telicity proposed in more recent writings by Declerck (1989Declerck ( , 1997 and Depraetere (1995) and adopted by Vanden Wyngaerd (2001): (4) telic events are those that possess an inherent end point, but these are not necessarily temporally bounded, such as when the end point is not reached at all, or when the end point is reached many times over.…”

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Spatial and temporal boundedness in English motion events

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Declerck

2005

Journal of Pragmatics

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This study examines how reference to spatial boundaries can make speakers of English represent or understand a motion event as temporally bounded. Spatial boundaries can be implied by (a) the path expressed by a directional item, (b) the so-called -landmark‖ (Langacker, 1987) serving as ‗support' for the path, and (c) the moving entity. Importantly, one and the same entity in the real world can also be conceptualized as either primarily delimited (bounded) or extended (nonbounded).After setting the stage with an example (section 1) and dealing with some important terminological preliminaries (section 2), we take a closer look at the concept of boundaries (section 3). We then set up a four-way classification of directional prepositions in English (section 4), based on whether they refer to a path that is extended and, if so, on whether that path is specified or not for having or lacking an endboundary.In the subsequent sections (5-7), we zoom in on the aspectual role played by adverbial particles, on the possible influence of the object NP of directional prepositions, and briefly on the role played by the NP referring to the moving entity.The most important findings of this study are summarized in section 8.

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Verbal Aspect in French

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The perfect in Lithuanian: an empirical study

The perfect in Lithuanian: an empirical study

Autonomie ou dépendance sémantique des noms d'événements en français

Spatial and temporal boundedness in English motion events

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